AFL News and Sporting News
AFL Player Suspensions: Where are we at?
Izak Rankine Adelaide midfielder Izak Rankine was suspended for four games by the AFL Tribunal. Rankine was charged with rough conduct following a fiery clash with Brisbane's Brandon Starcevich at the Gabba in round 17. [...]
Injury Lists heading into team selection for AFL round 21
Adelaide NameInjuryReturn Jordan ButtsFootSeason Jordan DawsonConcussionTest Wayne MileraKneeSeason Nick MurrayKneeTest Patrick ParnellShoulderSeason Luke PedlarShoulderSeason Latest Update: July 30 Brisbane NameInjuryReturn Keidean ColemanKneeSeason Tom DoedeeKneeSeason Darcy GardinerKneeSeason Darragh JoyceJawTBA Kalin LaneKneeSeason Lincoln McCarthyKneeSeason Carter MichaelConcussionTest Jack [...]
Geelong’s Tyson Stengle Hospitalized After Nightclub Incident; Returns to Training
Geelong Cats forward Tyson Stengle was recently involved in a concerning incident at a Geelong nightclub. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Stengle was found unresponsive and subsequently rushed to University Geelong Hospital in [...]
AFL Injury lists after round 20
Adelaide NameInjuryReturn Jordan ButtsFootSeason Matt CrouchShoulderTest Jordan DawsonConcussion1-2 weeks Karl GallagherHamstringTest Will HamillFingerTest Wayne MileraKneeSeason Nick MurrayKneeTest Patrick ParnellShoulderSeason Luke PedlarShoulderSeason Izak RankineSuspensionRd 22 Josh WorrellArmTest Latest Update: July 29 Brisbane NameInjuryReturn Harris AndrewsConcussion1 week [...]
DreamTeam prices and positions: As usual for Gold Coast, its all about Gaz
They used to say No Carey, No North but last year we saw just how important Gary Ablett Jnr ... "The Little Master" ... is to Gold Coast's onfield fortunes. No Gaz, no Suns and [...]
DreamTeam prices and positions: Brisbane: between a Rockliff and a hard place
There's no denying that you have to have Tommy Rockliff in your team at some point. He just racks up so many points and while Brisbane have strengthened their midfield with the addition of Dayne [...]
DreamTeam Prices and Positions: Bag a Blue? At your own risk
It will twenty years next season since Carlton last won a premiership. No other club has struggled - by its own admission - to move to the new equalised AFL reality than the mob who [...]
Week 16: Season Defining Moments Edition
Week 16 the penultimate week in the regular season, it defines not only the teams’ season but the players on that teams’ season. Everything is coming to a close and all of the awards have [...]
World War I, Australian Rules, and the Pioneer Exhibition Game
The sounds of their German enemy, the bloodthirsty Hun, singing familiar Christmas carols and clinking festive glasses of beer, drifted across no mans land and into British trenches and fighting positions in northern France and [...]
NFL Week 15: I Hate Cleveland Edition
So after about four weeks of awful play, Cleveland's Brian Hoyer was relegated to the bench. The worst thing was that Manziel was then promoted to starter. Other than that it was a week where [...]
DreamTeam prices and positions: Go west for some bargains young man, but beware of fool’s gold
Quite the off season for the Dogs. After the rebuild under Brendan McCartney seemed to be trending well with the likes of Jack Macrae, Marcus Bontempelli and Jake Stringer demonstrating that the Dogs had got [...]
Final List Analysis – Hawthorn do it again, Geelong goes tall up front and Sydney get the steal of the draft
Alex Docherty reviews the list changes, from lowest to highest on the 2014 ladder. The trades have been made and free agents secured or lost. Draft picks, from the raw talented kids to mature age [...]
Final List Analysis – North prepare for a flag tilt, Freo keep us all guessing and Port get their man Ryder
Alex Docherty reviews the list changes, from lowest to highest on the 2014 ladder. The trades have been made and free agents secured or lost. Draft picks, from the raw talented kids to mature age [...]
Final List Analysis – West Coast continue the rebuild while the Bombers look for mature bodies and Richmond steadily builds an elite midfield
Alex Docherty reviews the list changes, from lowest to highest on the 2014 ladder. The trades have been made and free agents secured or lost. Draft picks, from the raw talented kids to mature age [...]
Final List Analysis: Crows get all defensive, Collingwood nails the midfield and Gold Coast ice the cake
Alex Docherty reviews the list changes, from lowest to highest on the 2014 ladder. The trades have been made and free agents secured or lost. Draft picks, from the raw talented kids to mature age [...]
DreamTeam prices and positions: Greater Western Sydney goldmine?
The Greater Western Sydney Giants are a shining example of the fantasy football law that dictates that a team's onfield performance bears little to no correlation to its potential to contain players that can rack [...]
A rivalry steeped in blood and TV ratings
Of all the confected AFL attempts to create "event games" none is more nakedly transparent and thus treated with derision verging on contempt by fans than the so-called rivalry round. Carlton and Collingwood supporters do [...]
Final List Analysis: Brisbane Beamsing but Dogs and Carlton play the waiting game
Alex Docherty reviews the list changes, from lowest to highest on the 2014 ladder. The trades have been made and free agents secured or lost. Draft picks, from the raw talented kids to mature age [...]
Petracca catches fantasy eyes
On the back of the under-18 championships, it was unsurprising to see Christian Petracca drafted second overall by the Melbourne Demons, and the rookie can now expect to find himself selected by a host of [...]
DreamTeam prices and positions : Dees with possible bargains for the bold
The AFL has begun its staggered release of the prices and positions of players for next season's fantasy football competitions and first cab off the rank is the Demons. Melbourne's onfield woes are well documented [...]
Final List Analysis: High picks, high expectations – now its time to deliver.
Alex Docherty reviews the list changes, from lowest to highest on the 2014 ladder. The trades have been made and free agents secured or lost. Draft picks, from the raw talented kids to mature age [...]
NFL Week 14: That Start of the Business End Edition
It’s the final quarter of the season and by now the playoff teams are trying to fire on all cylinders and if you’re the Jags, Raiders, Bucs, Jets, Titans, Giants or Skins you’re simply just [...]
AFL Fantasy/DreamTeam: And so it begins
The AFL have released the first information about next year's Fantasy/DreamTeam competition. The topline is that Dane Swan will be a MID/FWD, as will Brett Deledio and Jack Ziebell. Ziebell is the value pick for [...]
Playing the long game, or going for the win, or both at once
What do the Palestinians and Ross Lyon have in common? Both have never understood the difference between tactics and strategy. They share a magnificent ability to get the win on the day but never take [...]
NFL Week 13: Thanksgiving Week Edition
NFL Week 13: Thanksgiving Week Edition Yes it was Turkey Day in the US of A and that means a big day for the NFL as two key games took place on Thursday that could [...]
The rookie draft – where experience now counts most
The evolution of the rookie draft in recent years shows that AFL coaches and military commanders understand one universal truth when it comes to combat, be it of the shooting or non shooting variety: nothing [...]
Back in time suits me fine
As the 2014 footy talk edge's closer to closure with the draft just over two weeks away I thought it would be good to follow in the Podcast footsteps this week and reminisce. Before I [...]
Essendon Draft Jake Long
The Bombers have committed to rookie Jake Long the son of Essendon legend Michael Long after being overlooked in the national draft. Controversially because of the supplements scandal Essendon were wiped of all father-son access picks [...]
The Draft-ermath 2014
After months of speculation, intrigue, trading, haggling and bartering, the 2014 AFL National Draft has been run. How did your team come out the other end? You can see the full draft results here on [...]