AFL News and Sporting News
AFL Announces Stellar Line-Up for 2025 Indigenous All Stars Game
The AFL has unveiled an incredible second wave of players for the 2025 Toyota AFL Indigenous All Stars game, with tickets now on sale for the highly anticipated match, set to take place on Saturday, [...]
SUNS Welcome Five Local Stars in AFLW Draft
The Gold Coast SUNS have bolstered their AFLW list with five Streetsmarts SUNS Academy graduates selected in the 2024 Telstra AFLW Draft. The homegrown talents include Havana Harris (Pick 2), Heidi Talbot (Pick 27), Mia [...]
Collingwood Welcomes Ash Centra as First Draft Pick
Collingwood has proudly welcomed star midfielder Ash Centra as the club’s first draft pick in the 2024 Telstra AFLW Draft, securing her with Pick One. Centra, a standout talent from Gippsland Power in the Coates [...]
Saints Strengthen AFLW Squad with Dynamic Draft Trio
St Kilda has bolstered its AFLW list with three exciting additions from the 2024 Telstra AFLW Draft: Zoe Besanko, Kyla Forbes, and Alana Gee. This talented trio joins trade signings Charlotte Baskaran, Amber Clarke, and [...]
Cream of the Crop – Qualifying Finals Preview
Yesterday we took a look at the Elimination Finals, today it's time to preview the big Qualifying Final match ups. Boy these are two juicy contests featuring the top four teams in the league. Qualifying [...]
Another one bites the dust – Elimination Finals Preview
Ladies and gentlemen, IT. IS. TIME! That's right, finals time. Today we're going to take a look at the two Elimination Finals. We've already given a bit of an insight into our thoughts on these [...]
It’s Finals Time – The most wonderful time of year!
The final round of the AFL Home and Away season is always a time of contradictions. Sadness for the fans and players of 10 teams who for them, Round 23 is the last time they [...]
AFL Round 23 Results – Now take a week off.
Round 23 Games DateHome v AwayVenueResultCrowd Fri 23 Aug 7:50pmCollingwood v EssendonMCG76-6585405 Sat 24 Aug 1:45pmSydney v St KildaSCG109-6433722 Sat 24 Aug 2:10pmNorth Melbourne v MelbourneBlundstone Arena88-838202 Sat 24 Aug 4:35pmGeelong v CarltonGMHBA Stadium129-6131669 Sat 24 Aug 6:10pmWest Coast v HawthornOptus Stadium67-10555859 Sat 24 Aug 7:25pmGold Coast v GWSMetricon Stadium55-1277610 Sun 25 Aug 1:10pmWestern [...]
Some intrigue ahead – Interestometer Round 23
Wow, time really flies when you're having fun, eh? Round 23 and the end of the regular season already. We've already waved goodbye to some veterans who have retired, and this weekend we'll see more. [...]
Essendon attrition, Buddy’s 300th: Round 23 teams.
COLLINGWOOD v ESSENDON MCG , 7:50pm AEST Friday, August 23, 2019 COLLINGWOOD B: Levi Greenwood, Matthew Scharenberg, Jeremy Howe HB: Jack Crisp, Darcy Moore, Brayden Maynard C: Tom Phillips, Scott Pendlebury, Chris Mayne HF: Josh [...]
Can the Cats Get Their Claws Into Grand Final Place?
With three defeats in their last five outings, the Geelong Cats are reeling. The long-time leaders of the AFL Premiership have just started to hit a bump in the road at the wrong time of [...]
Interestometer Round 22 – We’re excited!
Boy oh boy oh boy, who's excited for Round 22 of footy? After two rounds where it was tough to garner enthusiasm for any of the matches we needed this round badly. Amazing to think [...]
Giants beef up; Dons recall 4; Team Lists round 22
MELBOURNE v SYDNEY SWANS MCG , 7:50pm AEST Friday, August 16, 2019 MELBOURNE B: Michael Hibberd, Sam Frost, Jake Lever HB: Nathan Jones, Marty Hore, Christian Salem C: Kyle Dunkley, Jack Viney, Billy Stretch HF: [...]
Collingwood and Essendon – A rivalry for the ages
The Collingwood and Essendon rivalry is one of the most famous in the AFL. Over their storied history the two have played each other an amazing 238 times with Collingwood leading the ledger 131-103. Three [...]
Anatomy of a Rumour in a Fake News World
Let's be honest, we don't mind a good rumour here at BigFooty, but last week's shenanigans got us thinking, how on earth does one of these things get started? And how does it do the [...]
Incredible blow outs mark round 21
Brisbane v Gold Coast a sellout. Amazing scenes as Bombers fans rage. What did you like, learn and hate in round 21? Post now -> DateHome v Away TeamsResultVenueCrowd Fri 9 Aug 7:50pmGWS v Hawthorn4.5 29 – 13.7 [...]
Essendon Injury Nightmare – AFL Teams, Rd 21
Lions no changes, of course. GWS GIANTS v HAWTHORN UNSW , 7:50pm AEST Friday, August 9, 2019 GWS GIANTS B: ZaC: Williams, Lachlan Keeffe, Heath Shaw HB: Adam Kennedy, Nick Haynes, Phil Davis C: Lachie [...]
Interestometer Round 21 – It’s about the Big Footy fans this week!
It's rounds like this where I wonder if the season IS too long. Yet again a glance at the fixture doesn't engender much enthusiasm from an impartial point of view. So this week I thought [...]
Whack whackity whack – 7 AFL players fined for round 20 scuffles
No suspensions but 7 players stumping up $13,500 worth of fines. MRO talk on BigFooty Forum -> This more than covers the cost of the score review team for the season, so that's sorted. James [...]
All the round 20 matches ranked!
Gotta be honest, when I looked at this week's fixtures it didn't get me excited. No real rivalries, only one clash that could directly impact the eight. So let's rank the matches from 1-9 in [...]
Dockers 5 changes; Roo out – AFL Teams Round 20, 2019
NORTH MELBOURNE v HAWTHORN MRVL , 7:50pm AEST Friday, August 2, 2019 NORTH MELBOURNE B: Marley Williams, Scott D. Thompson, Sam Durdin HB: Jamie Macmillan, Robbie Tarrant, Jasper Pittard C: Trent Dumont, Jack Ziebell, Jared [...]
Blicavs staging, Thomas late and high, Bruce digging knees – MRO round 19
A quick roundup of the match review results for round 20, 2019. Marc Blicavs - $1000 for staging Blicavs is the first player to be fined for staging in 2019. "Next season this should be [...]
$2m bonus for Cox Plate 2019 winner designed to attract overseas stars
Photo by Celticshk, CC BY-SA 3.0The Moonee Valley Racing Club is set for a glittering field of overseas entrants to the 2019 Cox Plate The Moonee Valley Racing Club has announced an additional $2m potential bonus to [...]
The Brownlow Medal race
The Brownlow Medal race is one of the most open in recent history with no clear frontrunner emerging to take home the coveted award. Geelong’s Tim Kelly has been the favourite for the majority of [...]
The results! Round 19, AFL
A weekend of surprises! Dons scrape through, Blues triumph over slow Crows, Lions drop a spot. Post your round 19 Liked, Learnt and Hated in the forum. DateHome v Away TeamsResultVenueCrowd Fri 26 Jul 7:50pmCollingwood v Richmond66-98MCG78722 Sat 27 [...]
Interestometer Round 19 – It’s all about the Pies and Tigers
Whoops! How could I almost forget this week's Interestometer? Not a lot on offer this week with lots of clashes with teams either well outside the eight or between top eight and bottom eight sides. [...]
Eddie Betts dropped; 4 Magpies out – Rd 19, 2019
AFL Teams round 19, 2019. COLLINGWOOD v RICHMOND MCG , 7:50pm AEST Friday, July 26, 2019 COLLINGWOOD B: Brayden Maynard, Jordan Roughead, Jeremy Howe HB: Isaac Quaynor, Matthew Scharenberg, Jack Crisp C: Tom Phillips, Scott [...]
The Run Home 2019 – Big Footy’s Fearless Predictions
It's about now, with five rounds to play, that we'll start hearing the phrase "mathematically" possible a lot. In reality the top eight looks set in stone but it's time to strap in as we [...]
Saints, Hawks, and Giants surprise; Pies in peril — AFL results round 18, 2019
All the match results from AFL round 18. Post your Liked, Learned, Hated for round 18 >> DateHome v AwayResultVenueCrowd Fri 19 Jul 7:20pmAdelaide v Essendon10.15 (75) – 15.6 (96)Adelaide Oval47735 Sat 20 Jul 1:45pmRichmond v Port Adelaide15.11 (101) – 9.9 [...]