AFL News and Sporting News
George Wardlaw Suffers Another Hamstring Setback Ahead of 2025 Season
North Melbourne midfielder George Wardlaw has suffered yet another injury setback, with a hamstring strain sustained during a late January 2025 training session placing his availability for Round 1 in doubt. The young star was [...]
Hawthorn Star Will Day Returns to Full Training, Eyes Versatile Role in 2025
Hawthorn’s young star Will Day has made a triumphant return to full training after recovering from the collarbone injury that prematurely ended his 2024 season. The 23-year-old sustained the setback during the penultimate round against [...]
Mattaes Phillipou Sidelined with Stress Fracture, Dougal Howard Injured at Training
Mattaes Phillipou will miss the start of the 2025 season after scans confirmed a stress fracture in his right femur. The 20-year-old had been enjoying his most promising pre-season before the setback, which will require [...]
Western Bulldogs Provide Support as Jamarra Ugle-Hagan Faces Personal Challenges
The Western Bulldogs have addressed the absence of star forward Jamarra Ugle-Hagan from pre-season training, confirming that he is dealing with personal challenges. The club has implemented flexible training arrangements for the 21-year-old, allowing him [...]
Marsh Community Series – Round 1 Teams
ST KILDA v HAWTHORN Thursday 20 February 2020, 6:10 PM (AEST) ST KILDA B: D.Howard [20] C.Wilkie [44] N.Coffield [1] HB: J.Carlisle [2] H.Clark [11] B.Long [21] C: J.Billings [15] S.Ross [6] B.Hill [8] HF: [...]
AFLW Round 3 Teams and Tips
Teen Wolf's Tips Read TW's Round 3 tips here. ST KILDA v MELBOURNE Moorabbin, Friday, 21 Feb, 7:10pm (local time) St Kilda B: T.White 29, T.Luke 22 HB: H.Priest 14, A.Brown 2, T.Lucas-Rodd 18 C: [...]
AFLW Round 2 Teams
WESTERN BULLDOGS v MELBOURNE, Whitten Oval, Friday, 14 February, 7:40pm (local time) Western Bulldogs B: A.Gogos 36, L.Spark 11 HB: K.Herron 31, E.Gamble 14, N.Ferres 16 C: B.Hunt 21, K.Lamb 27, G.Lagioia 12 HF: G.Newton [...]
Will Sydney Swans superstar Buddy get back to his best?
The last few years have certainly been rough on Sydney Swans key forward, Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, suffering multiple setbacks that inevitably took their toll, both on body and mind. However, despite what turned out to [...]
Deluca Doesn’t Have a Team for 2020 Season
The story of Josh Deluca is indeed an interesting one. During the mid-season draft, the young AFL player was drafted as one of the best options and Carlton was very happy with the selection. Deluca [...]
The AFL Has Broken Tradition with Anzac Day
The biggest match on the home and away calendar is going to break new ground in the year 2020. The second annual Anzac Day blockbuster is going to be played in the twilight slot for [...]
AFL Draft – Podcast recorded LIVE tonight @7:30
Just a few days until the first round of the AFL National Draft for 2019. Join Michaels and friends from Draft Central Monday night at 7:30 AEDT for a live recording of the annual Draft [...]
AFL Fixture 2020 – Club by Club
Each club's fixture for AFL season 2020. Full Fixture discussion in the AFL Forum or Your Club Forum ADELAIDE CROWSRound 1: Sydney Swans at Adelaide Oval, Saturday March 21 at 4.35pm (Home)Round 2: Port Adelaide [...]
AFL 2020 Fixture Released
See who your club plays, every week. Full Fixture discussion in the AFL Forum or Your Club Forum AFL 2020 FIXTURE (all times AEDT) ROUND 1 Thursday, March 19 Richmond v Carlton at MCG, 7.25pm [...]
A Fans’ Guide to Preparing for AFL 2020
Australian Rules Football has seen a tremendous rise in popularity across the world over the last few years. A game that consists of 18 a side teams, it is one of the most loved sports [...]
The Big Dance Preview
And like that, another season is almost over. Tomorrow the Tigers and Giants will battle it out at the MCG for footy's ultimate prize, the 2019 AFL Premiership Cup.After 206 matches we are down to [...]
Can Aussie Rules Football and the AFL Expand its Global Appeal?
Australian rules football is the biggest sport in Australia, with the AFL boasting the largest attendances of all sports in the country. Cricket, rugby, soccer, and basketball also tote a strong following, but footy is the [...]
Then there we four – Prelim Final Preview
Preliminary Final #1 - Tigers (#3) v Cats (#1), MCG, Friday 20th September 2019 Injuries Tigers - Higgins, Rance, Stack, Aarts Cats - Clark, Cunico, Duncan, Fogarty, Hawkins (Suspended), Rohan Last Met Round 12, Friday [...]
Just Six Remain – Semi-Final Previews
It's been an eventful week in the world of AFL but tonight, we can finally turn our attention to the footy once more. Semi-Final 1 - Cats (#1) v Eagles (#5), Friday 13th September, 7:50pm, [...]
Victory Get Set For A-League Campaign
We are just weeks away from the start of the 2019/2020 A-League season and the equal most successful team in A-League history - the Melbourne Victory - are again expected to challenge for the premiership. [...]
2019-20 UEFA Champions League preview
Manchester City Despite a potential Champions League ban hanging over their heads, juggernaut Manchester City is still the envy of the football world and one of the favourites to take out the tournament. City interestingly [...]
Vale Danny ‘Spud’ Frawley
The AFL world is in mourning after the news that St Kilda legend Danny Frawley had passed away in a single car accident earlier today. He died only a stones throw from his famous Bungaree [...]
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 [...]