Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you’re wondering if the NSW Blues have an Origin identity crisis, google “NSW Origin merchandise”. The late and unlamented dark-blue jersey is there, but that’s just the start of it. There are dark-blue jerseys with light-blue vees, stripes and pipes, and vice […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The AFL’s chief medical officer has contributed to a published consensus paper by the world’s leading experts on head trauma in sport which stops short of rubber-stamping the AFL’s own stance on the link between concussion and degenerative brain disease. The powerful Concussion […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Latrell Mitchell never had complete confidence in his injured calf from the moment he entered NSW camp. Mitchell has ruled himself out of Origin for a second time this year and informed coach Brad Fittler just after lunch on Thursday. Fittler quickly elevated […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The AFL is changing the rules of the Australian Football Hall of Fame to enable the league to suspend or revoke the membership of those who are convicted of indictable offences or have engaged in serious misconduct that brought the game into disrepute. […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wallabies coach Eddie Jones might be a proud New South Welshman, but he could not help praising Queensland’s Billy Slater after making a cameo at Maroons training. For a moment, onlookers at Sanctuary Cove thought Jones had joined Cameron Smith as the latest […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sky Blues co-captain Isabelle Kelly returned to NSW Blues training on Thursday, two weeks after she was helped from the field coughing up blood in game one of the Women’s State of Origin series. Kelly was rushed to ICU at Westmead hospital after […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jack Gunston and Daniel Rich have dropped themselves from Brisbane’s side to face Sydney, telling coach Chris Fagan they don’t deserve to be selected. Recruit Gunston and defender Rich won’t face the Swans at the Gabba on Friday or play in the Lions’ […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brad Arthur was making small talk with his son when the Parramatta coach made the mistake of asking Jake how training was going. “Jakey threw off and said to my wife Michelle ‘Baldy is worried about us,’” Arthur grinned. “We had a bit […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In today’s AFL briefing, your daily wrap of footy news: Port Adelaide remain interested in acquiring a bit Cat. Sydney coach John Longmire says the league is asking a “hell of a lot” of its players in its tackle crackdown. Port keen on […]

By Jon Pierik and Andrew Wu Credit: The Age/Richard Giliberto Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Andy Collins ran down his Hawthorn teammate Tony Hall at the MCG in 1989, he could not have known his desperate, goal-saving tackle would lead to the demise of State of Origin […]