AFL 2024
Magpies’ injury woes deepen despite thumping win; Crows and Lions second draw of the season
Follow along for all the major moments and post game reactions as the Sunday games play out for round nine.
- by Marnie Vinall and Andrew Stafford
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Sleeping giants have awoken: The signs these Bombers are finally the real deal
Essendon are different this year. They have changed and improved, and Brad Scott has them playing a vastly better style of football.
- by Michael Gleeson
Form no longer concerns McRae as Magpies return to top eight, but injury list grows
Collingwood suffered three more injuries in the win over West Coast, but have forced their way into the top eight and their form is improving by the week.
- by Michael Gleeson
Footy’s hottest talents are about to clash. Who would you choose?
Boom recruit Harley Reid plays will go head-to-head with Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos in a match-up that has the footy world salivating.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Richmond Tigers
The moment star Tiger would want back in horror loss to Dogs
Throughout their previous seven defeats, Richmond had performed admirably while undermanned, competing hard only to be overwhelmed late by more experienced teams. Not so against the Dogs.
- by Andrew Wu
‘Off the pace’: Injury-hit Tigers rue thrashing from Bulldogs; Bombers score stirring win over Giants
Hawthorn, Essendon, Western Bulldogs and Gold Coast were the winners as another AFL Saturday round played out.
- by Roy Ward, Danny Russell and Andrew Wu
‘We are like neutered dogs’: Lyon hits out after Saints’ loss; Scott’s challenge to Dons after Giant win
A frustrated Ross Lyon has compared AFL coaches to neutered dogs who cannot properly direct their teams during a match because of the league’s severe restrictions on the use of runners, while Brad Scott has challenged his high-flying Bombers to continue their improvement.
- by Danny Russell
Cameron out with delayed concussion but AFL clears Cats
Geelong have been cleared of breaching the AFL rules, despite the Cats revealing on Saturday that key forward Jeremy Cameron had been diagnosed with delayed concussion from a heavy head knock on Friday night.
- by Danny Russell and Peter Ryan
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Fremantle Dockers
‘Superbly brave, heroic’: Brereton shares Dockers’ grief for McCarthy
Fremantle veterans Nat Fyfe, Luke Ryan and Alex Pearce fought back tears on Friday night as they remembered their good friend Cam McCarthy.
- by Danny Russell
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‘It’s bigger than that’: The match the AFL wants to revive after a decade in the wilderness
The AFL is pushing to stage an Indigenous exhibition game on the eve of next season in a bid to address the decline in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander footballers playing the game.
- by Caroline Wilson
From ‘scrawny kid’ to one half of Melbourne’s ‘it’ couple: The former carpenter putting Bombers in shape
Essendon’s Sam Durham may have taken the long route to the top, literally and figuratively, but life is changing quickly for the boy from Seymour.
- by Andrew Wu