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AFL 2024
Big-moment Bomber must keep playing; Swans stumbles change flag race
This week in key takeouts: examining whether the Pies trust their depth players, opportunity for change at Carlton, another false dawn for Suns and a selection squeeze at Essendon.
- by Peter Ryan and Andrew Wu
Opinion
AFL 2024
Don’t feel Blue: When an upset is upsetting ... and when it is not
- by Michael Gleeson
Insight & Analysis
Booed, under-paid and over-scrutinised: Who’d be an AFL coach?
The AFL must end the conversation about improving the lot of coaches, and act. Watching Ken Hinkley after last Sunday’s game should have proved another wake-up call.
Caroline Wilson
Football columnist for The Age
Is Darcy Moore really playing ‘awful’ footy? Cornes and McClure go head-to-head
The two footy media heavyweights who don’t shirk the big issues are refusing to back down on Collingwood captain Darcy Moore. Here, they both make their case.
Too many whingers: Why the footy sook-fest has to stop
The constant complaining in the AFL has gone too far and threatens to tarnish the code’s reputation as Australia’s premier sport.
Kane Cornes
AFL columnist
Latest in AFL
GWS surge past Carlton for defining win; Angry Hardwick drops the F-Bomb
GWS will charge into the back end of their AFL finals bid with confidence after fighting back from 39 points down against Carlton to win. In Perth, Fremantle overpowered a Shai Bolton-inspired Richmond to post a 51-point victory.
- by Roy Ward, Peter Ryan, Andrew Stafford and Steve Barrett
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
Petracca in hospital with appendicitis; Collingwood’s heavy injury cost from prime-time defeat
Melbourne star Christian Petracca’s recent run of bad luck has continued with the 28-year-old admitted to hospital on Saturday night with appendicitis.
- by Peter Ryan