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Patrick Dangerfield, you are wrong about AFL strike

Patrick Dangerfield started plenty of conversations this week when he weighed in on the possibility of a pre-season players’ strike, particularly with his comment; "The game starts with us … without players there is no competition."

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AFL Insider: There’s a lack of real power at Port

Here’s an early call on Port Adelaide’s direction next year – Shanghai aside, they’re going nowhere.

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AFL Insider: Pie leaders not feeling too Wells

News that Collingwood recruit Daniel Wells’ calf injury will keep him from training in the lead up to Christmas has many of the club's fans on edge, and rightfully so, but they won’t be half as worried as president Eddie Maguire and coach Nathan Buckley.

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AFL Insider: The Apple Isle will be fruitful again

For the first time in 30 years no Tasmanian kid was taken in the national draft, something that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the AFL.

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AFL Insider: ​Players may strike a negative chord with fans

Once again the threat of a possible players strike is hovering as the league continues to butt heads with the AFLPA on details of the next collective bargaining agreement.

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AFL Insider: O’Meara, oh my!

Hawthorn has been making positive noises about Jaeger O’Meara getting into early pre-season work, but the star recruit’s progress isn’t as good as the Hawks would like us to believe.

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Gary Ablett passionately supported by wife Jordan

It’s not unusual to see partners or family members of sportspeople try to show support with well-meaning social media posts, but more often than not it ends up looking like a lot of whinging and whining on behalf of someone who can’t stand up for themselves.

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AFL Insider: Little champ a ‘family first’ man

What's the story with Gaz?

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AFL Insider: Will the biggest Dog call it a day?

Could Bob be out the door?

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AFL Insider: Big men and small dogs – never a good look

Despite having all the physical attributes required to make it at the top level Todd Elton has had trouble locking a spot in Richmond’s best line up.

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AFL Insider: International Rules won't uncover 8 billion - or any - new fans

It has taken a lot of work for the AFL to line up two International Rules tests against Ireland in 2017, and frankly you have to ask the obvious question – why?

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AFL Insider: Move along, nothing to see here

How good are the AFL and its clubs getting at concealing bad news?

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Twitter discusses the 2012 Brownlow

We all knew it was coming, but when Trent Cotchin and Sam Mitchell were awarded the 2012 Brownlow there was a mixture of outrage, joy and general supporter one-upmanship across social media.

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AFL Insider: Is Eddie about to be shown the door?

Board ructions at Collingwood have been escalating and a strong group is preparing to confront Eddie McGuire

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AFL Insider: Giants to cop a whack over Whitfield

The AFL is keen to get tough on the Giants and strip them of picks 15 and 37 at the draft if the league can get the go-ahead from ASADA before next week.

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Is the Jaden McGrath situation a sign of the times?

Jaden McGrath repeated a line we hear all too often these days; “I just don’t have the desire to continue at the elite level”.

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Footy players react to Trump's win

Unlike musicians and film stars, our footballers don’t tend to get too involved in politics, at least not until they’ve retired and realised they can make a good living out of doing not much more than being popular.

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AFL Insider: Daniel Chick's GoFundMe page

Things aren't looking great for Daniel Chick at the moment.

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AFL Insider: Suns to shine over China

David Koch talks about China as if every inhabitant of the world’s most populated nation are about to buy Port Adelaide memberships, but it looks like he may be a victim of his own greed.

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AFL Insider: A club’s responsibility to players

The unfortunate situation that saw former Richmond player Reece McKenzie give the Tigers a massive spray on social media this week forces us to ask if too much pressure is put on junior footballers these days.

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AFL Insider: Has Jaeger broken up ‘the family club’?

How much exactly has Jaeger O’Meara cost Hawthorn? Don’t put a final price on the trade yet, as the injury-plagued midfielder gets more and more expensive by the day.

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AFL Insider: Scary stuff for club dieticians

The contents of players’ pantries last Monday would have looked like off-season bingeing, but seeing as it was Halloween there’s a fair chance all the bad stuff was gone by the next morning.

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AFL Insider: This is why he’s captain

Essendon skipper Jobe Watson has as good as given up all hope of keeping his 2012 Brownlow medal.

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Vickery gone to the Cats

In case Hawthorn fans didn’t think their trade period had gone bad enough they now have reason to worry about the sanity of big-name recruit Ty Vickery.

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AFL Insider: The Roos take Tassie total to four

The release of the 2017 fixture has created plenty of discussion, with the most interesting for us being the scheduling of North Melbourne to face Hawthorn in an away game in Launceston.

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AFL Insider: Ablett return to Geelong would be a disaster

Gary Ablett’s request to be traded back to Geelong would go down as one of the worst pieces of timing in history.

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The best of AFL end-of-season trips

Not that long ago the end of season footy trip was 40 blokes and 40 slabs of beer getting on a bus and heading to Mildura for a week of throwing up.

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Ex-AFL star found naked in dog's bed after bender

One ex-footballer has found himself fronting court this week after going on a bender, before being discovered naked in a former partner’s garage, sleeping on the dog’s bed.

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AFL Insider: Eddie’s future not so black and white

Is the Pies supremo's grip starting to weaken?

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AFL coaches angry at pre-finals bye decision

The league’s decision to keep the pre-finals bye in 2017 has created an uproar amongst all AFL clubs as the league officially prioritises ‘entertainment’ over fairness.

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No chance of a sunrise at Port Adelaide

The denials from Port Adelaide list manager Jason Cripps about a rift between himself and coach Ken Hinkley has only heightened the problems behind the scenes at Alberton Oval.

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AFL Insider: Were the Saints trying to lure Hodge?

It wasn’t the best of trade periods for Hawthorn, with the surprise moves of Sam Mitchell and Jordan Lewis leaving the club stunned, no matter how they spin it.

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AFL Insider: When in Thailand

Josh Green got a little bored on his holiday.

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The latest on Jobe Watson's Brownlow

Jobe's Brownlow Medal is not safe at all.

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Beginning of the end? Swans facing salary cap squeeze

Tom Mitchell leaving Sydney is the beginning of the end for the Swans, and they know it.

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Adelaide make significant play for Tom Rockliff

​With some stalling over Bryce Gibbs the Crows have upped their efforts in grabbing Brisbane ball-magnet Tom Rockliff.

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Bryce Gibbs seen on holiday with rival AFL captain

The whispers of Carlton star Bryce Gibbs going to Adelaide are getting louder after a pic was tweeted yesterday by @Bootz79.

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AFL Insider: A Blue going on at Princes Park

Is Silvagni's sway at Carlton too great for Brendon Bolton?

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AFL Insider: Money talks and bullshit walks

Jesse Hogan’s contract extension early this week caught everyone by surprise.

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AFL Insider: A lot of love for Bevo

Who says there’s no room for sentiment in modern sport?

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AFL Insider: What he said/what we heard - Rodney Eade

Rodney Eade opened up about how he felt about Jaeger O’Meara seeking a trade to Hawthorn, but as diplomatic as ‘Rocket’ is we reckon it wasn’t that hard to read between the lines.

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AFL Insider: SOD it, get someone who knows sport

Sometimes the emotion in sport can be a bit misdirected, but the retirement of Dennis Cometti from the Channel 7 commentary team is arguably the biggest loss to football this year.

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AFL Insider: An early test for Tigers

Collingwood is moving to snatch sacked Brisbane coach Justin Leppitsch out from under Richmond, as the Tigers try to get their former assistant back to Punt Road.

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The AFL Grand Final is likely to be a lot different in 2017

Massive TV ratings for the GWS v Bulldogs preliminary final has many people calling for a twilight season decider, but it isn’t going to happen.

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The winner of the Twitter AFL Brownlow...

Letting footballers tweet and drink is not a good idea, but it does help provide some of the better ‘less than 140 character’ stories of the year.

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AFL Insider: Suburban Fevolution

Fev's new line of work could keep him busy

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What Leon Cameron *actually* thinks about GWS whingers

Since Greater Western Sydney started winning games the fear factor across the league has escalated, and now they’re favourites for the flag the complaints about being gifted a flag have cranked up to the max.

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AFL Insider: Maybe Hawthorn’s not for everyone

Rocky a Hawk? Don't count on it.

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AFL Insider: Martin the core of a super deal

Four clubs could all win if Dusty's deal gets done

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Richmond keen to steal Hawthorn trade target

The Focus on Footy board coup was probably the worst takeover bid since Hitler headed to Moscow mid-winter, but it has only helped kick Richmond into overdrive

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The best Ronald McDonald's from Mad Monday

Ben Brown was born for this.

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AFL keen for more women in the commentary box

The AFL is actively putting pressure on Channel Seven and Foxtel to put a woman in a commentary role in 2017.

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AFL sledging to die after Mumford's Buddy Franklin jibe

AFL set sights on sledging.

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AFL Insider: Latest on Jobe Watson's future

The banned Bombers, including Jobe Watson, are back on the training track, but the skipper has still made no move to recommit to the club for 2017.

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AFL looking to trial monumental rule change in 2017

AFL Insider called it back in July and now the 16-a-side format is getting some traction.

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AFL Insider: Brad Scott to the Lions?

The Brisbane Lions may not be involved in the finals but they’re hoping their next coach is.

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AFL Insider: Tomlinson the AFL’s King of trash

Giant Adam Tomlinson has an insatiable appetite for junk television, to the point where we wonder if it’s not more accurate to call him the AFL’s ‘Queen of trash’.

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AFL Insider: The pros and cons of writing your own rules

​The AFL’s willingness to comply with its own drug code and reveal the names of players on two or three strikes is under question.

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AFL Insider: On the verge of immortality

​Our favourite club player, Rohan Baldock, takes to the ground for the last time this weekend as his South Burnie Hawks line up in the grand final against Natone on Saturday.

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Stop listening to sh*t talk, Richmond are healthy

It’s on again at Richmond – a rebel group calling for a spill of the board to get the club back in the business of “winning football and contesting premierships”.

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AFL Insider: ‘Capper diem’ - seize the Mad Monday

It’s been a few years since Warwick Capper pulled on a guernsey, if not so long since he pulled off his pants, yet there’s always someone else prepared to breathe life back into the myth.

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AFL Insider: One Tiger's tail of woe

Richmond supporters are nothing if not passionate, but ‘Mario from Doncaster’ took it to a whole new level when he called SEN1116’s ‘The Run Home’.

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AFL Insider: Fyfe and Hogan to swap?

In a serious case of FOMO there is a push from parties inside both Fremantle and Melbourne to get a Fyfe-for-Hogan trade done this year.

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AFL Insider: Whitfield may be saved by the grace of 'God'

Should Lachie Whitfield be able to beat the charges he finds himself facing of avoiding a drug test, then he could have Collingwood president Eddie Maguire to thank more than anyone else.

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AFL Tweets: Wingard's toilet, Swanny quotes and UFC 202

The best tweets from AFL players.

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AFL Insider: James Hird: The hero of Essendon?

Twelve months ago it looked like Essendon was at the start of a long stay at the bottom of the ladder.

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What Brad Scott really meant during Boomer sacking press conference

Brad Scott has learnt this year not to speak without thinking first, so we’ve done the thinking for him and tell you what he was really saying at the press conference to announce the culling of the Gang of Four.

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"A washed-up, old has-been walked into Punt Road..."

​There’s no doubt 2017 has been an absolute shitter of a year for the Richmond Football Club, but some of the talk coming from ‘experts’ about what the Tigers need to do next is just airtime-filling nonsense.

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AFL Insider: The Freo fracture factor

Trade winds have blown in with the Fremantle Doctor.

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AFL Insider: Brownlow Medal down-low with two rounds remaining

​With two home and away rounds left the Brownlow Medal race is looking like one of the closest in years.

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AFL Insider: Boomer bust?

North Melbourne coach Brad Scott came close to signalling the end of an era when asked if Brent Harvey got to make the call on whether he continued at the Kangaroos next year.

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AFL stars getting into the Olympic spirit on social media

Every footballer is taught to say team success is more important than individual recognition, but once every four years they show in reality all they want is a big, shiny gold medal.

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AFL Insider: The AFL has its priorities right

The debate over whether the Brisbane Lions deserve a priority pick in this year’s draft took centre stage after The Rover unveiled the AFL’s plans earlier this week.

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AFL Insider: 250 not pie in the sky

Tasmanian amateur footballer Rohan Baldock has been keeping the country captivated with his goalkicking feats this year.

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AFL Insider: Fyfe is 'done' at Fremantle

This week Nat Fyfe declared he will be exploring all options when his contract at Fremantle ends next year, in other words "I’m done".

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Life at the bottom of the ladder

Nick Robertson comes across as a lovely bloke, but if this is typical of the Lions’ pre-match warm up then we can see why their season has gone slightly awry.

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AFL Insider: Have the Bulldogs jumped the gun on Bevo?

The Western Bulldogs this week extended the contract of second-year coach Luke Beveridge from 2018 to 2020.

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Michael Hurley and Tom Boyd to swap teams?

The craziest and yet most sane whisper has been going around the inner circles this week after Luke Beveridge went public on the Western Bulldogs’ interest in Michael Hurley.

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AFL Trade Rumours: Pie looking to head home, Tiger free to leave

There’s a lot of talk of potential moves at the end of the season, so we thought we should keep you up to date with the likelihood of some of the more interesting ones.

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AFL Insider: New rule to be trialled during women's matches

It seems too big a change to contemplate, but the AFL is considering cutting the number of players on the field from 18 to 16 within the next five years, and our guess is that it will happen.

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AFL Insider: Brent Harvey's insipid apology to Wayne Carey

​On the eve of his record-breaking 427th game Brent Harvey did what all decent sportsmen do and released a book of his life, and as with the many thousands of sports biographies that preceded it Boomer promised to be a ‘tell all’ tale that ‘pulled no punches’

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AFL Insider: Four AFL teams in the running for Good Friday

The topic of football on Good Friday raised its head again this week but don’t fret, you won’t be hearing this annual debate much longer.

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AFL Insider: The Bachelor is making quite an impact

There’s no doubt some footballers consider themselves pretty high on the list of Australia’s most eligible bachelors, so it only makes sense they’d be watching the new season of The Bachelor for tips.

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AFL Insider: Q and A the hard way

The Sydney Swans have a regular Twitter event called #vwaskaswan, and this week it was Dan Hannebery’s turn to take random questions from punters.

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AFL Insider: Wake up and smell the poppies

When Michael Talia got caught with drugs the football world went into its default position, saying it was out of character for the individual and not something the great majority of players indulge in.

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AFL footballer set to 'come out' during Pride Round

There could be a bit more than rainbow-tinted outfits coming out for the ‘Pride Match’ between St Kilda and the Sydney Swans in round 21, a game recognising the LGBTIQ community.

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Western Bulldogs on the verge of implosion

​The Western Bulldogs are on the verge of having their most successful season ever, but there’s a lot of unhappiness and disharmony not far from the surface at the Kennel.

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AFL Insider: PokemonGawn takes over Australia

Like seemingly everyone else in the country, AFL footballers are caught up in the PokemonGo craze, with Sportsbet even incorporating Max Gawn’s beard into odds on where the little monsters will appear.

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AFL Insider: Why Channel Seven are sh*tting themselves over Den and Bruce

Those in charge at Channel Seven are, to put it nicely, shitting themselves about the impending retirement of commentating legend Dennis Cometti.

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AFL Insider: Clubs erect stiff penalties

The latest social media cock-up (pun intended, and pretty happy with it too) by a player has seen AFL clubs go into social media lock-down.

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AFL Insider: Another big Blue or another big blue?

After losing to Port Adelaide, Damien Hardwick conceded Richmond’s season was done and it was time to look to the future, and when Ty Vickery was immediately dropped to the reserves it became clear the tall forward’s time at Punt Road is not long.

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AFL Insider: Bomber unlikely to drop anything explosive

Mark ‘Bomber’ Thompson is releasing his autobiography in a few days time, and while it may be a good holiday read, it’s unlikely to come close to telling the whole truth behind Essendon’s WADA woes.

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AFL Insider: It’s business guys, so let the guys get busy

​As first revealed by Sporting News months ago, mid-season player movement is on the cards for the AFL within the next two years, yet club personnel are being precious about players looking elsewhere while still donning the jumper.

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AFL Insider: Girl goes wild in the local leagues

Jessica Bell has done what no guy has been able to manage yet this football year – kicking 25 goals in a single game.

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AFL Insider: Who says footballers aren’t politically savvy?

A few footballers took to Twitter to give their views on last week’s election, sausage sizzles and saving the planet.

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AFL Insider: Thursday nights alright for football

The Thursday football experiment has come back with positive results and the AFL is keen to increase the number of games in the timeslot next year from 2016’s four, to at least seven.

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Gun for hire: Get Brendan Fevola to your local team

Former Carlton and Brisbane spearhead Brendon Fevola is the ultimate football gun-for-hire

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Adelaide Crows star cops deep heat in his underwear

It’s an old locker-room favourite, but Brodie Smith didn’t see the funny side of the situation when an unknown teammate messed with his underwear.

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AFL Insider: All Lions look the same, don't they?

The Brisbane Lions have had trouble lifting their profile in the last few years and apparently the problem is only getting worse, with media outlets and footy card manufacturers alike having difficulty telling the difference between Rohan Bewick and Sam Mayes.

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AFL Insider: Eagle could drop a trade bomb

Clubs are continuing to circle West Coast’s reigning best and fairest winner Andrew Gaff, with the midfielder yet to commit to the Eagles beyond this year.

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AFL Insider: ​Women in football better grow some balls

The delayed outcry this week over Eddie McGuire’s comments regarding holding Caroline Wilson under water has been, with all due respect, ridiculous.

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Party-hard Adelaide star could be traded to Victoria

Fantasy football players and Adelaide supporters alike are all wondering what Brad Crouch has done to seemingly be so out of favour with the Crows selectors.

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Bob Murphy, I'm sorry but you're done

Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy announced this week that his football career isn’t over yet, despite sitting out the remainder of this year with a knee injury, but has he made the right decision?

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AFL Insider: Heppell's Dog Don

Star Essendon midfielder Dyson Heppell posted a picture on Instagram that leaves little doubt about his intentions.

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AFL Insider: Fact-checking the rumour pile

​Once again we have taken our life in our own hands and approached The Rover for all the latest scoops

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AFL Insider: Footy can do without the ‘hit and giggle’

How about the outcry of injustice to Tom Hawkins after the big Cat got a one-week ban for punching Phil Davis in the throat?

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