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AFL News for the week ending October 1, 2023: Pies take their 16th in an epic tussle Fans, your 2023 AFL Grand Final Premier is Collingwood So, here we are again, many crying tears of joy or sadness (others not caring much if their teams didnt play yesterday) as we […]

Around the Grounds: And the AFL Grand Final winner is ...


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AFL News for the week ending September 10, 2023: Pies and Blues grind out wins, Lions sails through Port Power and the Giants climb the Saint-stalk So, with the first week of the finals done and dusted, we had four games that lined up as two sets of similar outcomes […]

Around the Grounds: AFL Finals Week 1 Recap


AFL News for the week ending July 23, 2023: Racism mars Pies win, Reid chatter gets a bit cray and Lions star out for season Pies quickly condemn Rioli racism after win in Adelaide What a way to wind up one of the games of the season and what might […]

Around the Grounds: Racism – it stops with us



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AFL News for the week ending July 9, 2023: A red card for the AFL, the Top 4 and Max King blow for Saints Red card - does the AFL need a sin bin? There has been a lot of chatter over the past few days (and beyond that) about […]

Around the Grounds: To red card or not in the ...


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AFL News for the week ending June 25, 2023: The top 100 salaried AFL players, Swans find their mojo and the byes (thankfully) roll to a close The top AFL earners We learned this week who rakes in the big bucks across the league as a list of the top […]

Around the Grounds: Swans find their mojo


AFL News for the week ending June 18, 2023: Tigers find form for Cotch, Giants manhandle Dockers and Blues in the spotlight Tigers find form to help elevate Cotch in style to '300 club' No one could deny it has not been the ideal season for the Tigers, but the […]

Around the Grounds: Cotch joins ‘300 club’ in style



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AFL News for the week ending May 21, 2023: Roos show pluck, Dons break Dreamtime win drought and it's a 'Yes' for the voice referendum from the AFL Despite last minute blunder, North stands tall It was a difficult week for North Melbourne as legendary AFL coach Alistair Clarkson declared […]

Around the Grounds: ‘Yes’ says AFL on the voice


AFL FANS ASSOCIATION (AFLFA): “GIVING FOOTY FANS A VOICE” The AFL has listened to fans by maintaining the day Grand Final for this year. AFL Fans Association president Ron Issko thanked the AFL for recognising the fans' wishes for a traditional 2.30 pm start for the 2023 Grand Final. “Polls have long […]

AFL recognises fans’ wishes with a Day Grand Final


AFL News for the week ending April 30, 2023: A new chief at HO and a new team in Tassie All hail the chief: Andrew Dillon is the new AFL CEO As Eddie would say, it's been a big week in football. Dominating news earlier in the week was the […]

Around the Grounds: All hail the chief



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AFL News for the week ending April 30, 2023: Albo stumps up Tassie cash, King Curnow's nine and Terrific Toby Hobart stadium: Build it and they will come The biggest news of the AFL week was Saturday's announcement of the $240m federal funding for a new Hobart stadium. While talk […]

Around the Grounds: Build it and they will come – ...



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AFL News for the week ending April 16, 2023: The AFL 'Gather Round' goes off like a rocket as Don's fly high and Hinkley calls out JHF heckling AFL Gather Round looks set to stay Most who either made the trek to Adelaide for the inaugural AFL Gather Round or […]

Around the Grounds: A ‘Gathering’ to be proud of