Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jack Wighton’s family tried to sway him, and Latrell Mitchell sprayed him. But Brad Fittler and Wighton’s former NSW teammates have known for the best part of a year he was ready to walk away from representative football. Wighton rubbished suggestions that being […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It might have been the 10-year wedding anniversary of South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas on the opening day of Gather Round last Thursday, but it was his love for AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan that was most evident over the weekend. The pair appeared […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The AFL has responded to 23 reports of racist abuse directed at players across AFL, VFL and the Talent League since the start of the season as club bosses were warned at a CEOs meeting on Friday that debate surrounding this year’s referendum […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Well done if you can find better entertainment than a weekly round of NRL at the moment. Between Manly’s brutal demolition of Melbourne, Newcastle’s grit and guts, the brilliance of the game’s best halves and Hudson Young doing Hudson Young things, the round […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The AFL have agreed to keep Gather Round in Adelaide until 2026 despite Giants boss Dave Matthews arguing they needed to show “courage” and take the concept to Sydney to grow the code, rather than use it as an exercise in government relations […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Newcastle’s fury over the decision to penalise Knights back-rower Tyson Frizell for his accidental hair pull on Jarome Luai has been compounded by revelations that an almost identical incident went unpunished in the Roosters-Sharks clash on Friday night. The decision to penalise Frizell, […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Essendon free agent Darcy Parish says the ride he is on at the Bombers this season is enjoyable, but he still has a “big decision” to make about his future when he comes out of contract at the end of 2023. The 25-year-old […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. North Melbourne legend Brent Harvey had surgery on Sunday morning after suffering a broken right leg playing in a local football match then enduring a long wait for an ambulance. North Heidelberg’s general manager of football operations Kane O’Brien confirmed the VFL/AFL games […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nicho Hynes, the man widely regarded as the NRL’s best player at present, says he would complement Blues half Nathan Cleary perfectly, declaring: “I’d love to play five-eighth for NSW.” Hynes is making an irresistible case to replace Jarome Luai for this year’s […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Jack Ginnivan was suspended in the pre-season for the use of illicit drugs, it was clear that he would miss more than the regulation two-match penalty for getting caught on video in a narcotically incorrect situation. For Ginnivan, the penalty has turned […]