Top-flight defender and midfielder Elliot Yeo has signed a long-term deal with the West Coast Eagles that will keep him based in Perth until the end of the 2023 AFL season. He earned an extension via his play in the 2017 Toyota AFL Premiership competition. Just 24, Yeo is coming off his best season and…

The last disposal out of bounds being trialed in the AFLW this season pales in comparison to the major changes the AFL plans to institute for 2018. The league, with the stroke of a pen, has eliminated the Match Review Panel, instead putting that responsibility in the hands of former Collingwood Magpie player Michael Christian….

The speculation is over, as the AFL has officially proclaimed that it will debut the experimental rule of last disposal out of bounds when the AFLW resumes in 2018. The league perhaps could have given the players more notice and only told the players about the change last week via the AFL Players’ Association. According…

It is the company line Richmond Tigers’ Coach Damien Hardwick was espousing when he said that his club would not suffer the same fate as befell 2016 premiers Western Bulldogs, who dropped out of the final eight in the 2017 Toyota AFL Premiership competition. Hopefully, for his sake and the Tigers supporters’ sake, Hardwick’s prognostication…

At the rate the training camp injuries are mounting, the AFL, or some of the clubs at least, should be taking a look at their pre-season regimens. Gold Coast recruit Harrison (Harry) Wigg, who used to play in Adelaide, fractured his ankle and will miss an extended period of time. Wigg was selected with the…

When we were mildly competetnt at sports and enduring the travails of the jungle of the educational system, we often played pick-up games during breaks and had only one goal-to not be the last one picked for one of the sides. So, we can empathise with Bridie Kennedy, to a degree at least. She was…

Nothing stings so much for an athlete than to be hurt before the season bounces, but Carlton Blues star Sam Docherty, who ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament soon after returning to the club to start training, is taking the optimistic approach of believing that he can get back during the 2018 AFL Premiership season. The…

Interesting, is it not, that winning an AFL premiership has vast benefit so far as the profit picture is concerned? The Western Bulldogs may have fallen out of the finals last year, but their surprise win in the 2016 AFL Premiership competition, along with strong support from the year previous, has led them to a…

The Richmond Tigers will be sans the services of Dion Prestia, hopefully just some time away from training, as he used the post-season to address some ankle issues that required surgery. The impact on the Tigers should be minimal, however, as Prestia has already begun to do some running and he, along with everyone else…

The Richmond Tigers have resumed training in preparation for the 2018 AFL Premiership competition and the pledges to maintain the spirit and intensity that led to a flag in 2017 were not long in coming. Captain Trent Cotchin will lead the Tigers for the first time as a premiership captain. The Tigers were one of…