Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian football honours only one winner – the one with the premiership. One team is hailed as champs. The other 17 “also-rans” in the AFL become chumps. An AFL coach can finish the year with a “winning season” […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kyle Flanagan is set to be reunited with his father and coach Shane after being offered a two-year deal to join the Dragons. Flanagan, 24, played his last game for the Bulldogs against the Titans on Sunday and […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The time for talk is just about over, as Melbourne and Collingwood prepare for what shapes as an enthralling qualifying final before a sold-out MCG. We take a look at the key questions this contest throws up. Mason […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Incoming St George Illawarra coach Shane Flanagan says Zac Lomax will be given a chance to become the team’s long-term fullback in what shapes as his first big call in the job. Lomax has long been considered one […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Broncos (2) v Storm (3) Friday 7.50pm, Suncorp Stadium If the Broncos are going to end their 17-year premiership drought, they will have to end their Melbourne hoodoo now. Last week’s 10-point defeat to the Storm was not […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin insists he has no issue with Brodie Grundy having an interview at Port Adelaide, coming as he declared the Demons are ready to embrace the “big stage” of a sold-out qualifying final against Collingwood […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sydney coach John Longmire is determined to write a new finals story in Melbourne this Friday night against a resurgent Carlton team. Longmire has moved on from last year’s heavy grand final loss to Geelong and believes that […]

By Nathanael Scott and Dan Walsh Adam Reynolds, Cody Walker and Nathan Cleary. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Seven-figure salaries. Pressure. Praise. Hype and hysteria – all that and more is often your lot in life as an NRL playmaker. Not least this […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Collingwood running machine Jack Crisp says the Magpies must find a way to hinder Demons defenders Steven May and Jake Lever in Thursday night’s qualifying final – and the statistics emphasise his point. The Magpies experienced first hand […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Outgoing AFL boss Gill McLachlan has declared that Thursday’s preliminary final between Collingwood and Melbourne could have sold out twice over, while rejecting criticisms of the finals’ ticketing system. But the AFL Fans’ Association says the league’s ticketing […]