HAWTHORN midfielder Cameron Bruce says he is looking forward to returning to the team in the lead up to the finals; something he hasn’t played a lot of in his time at Melbourne. The veteran is likely to make his return from a 13-week lay off through injury against North Melbourne next week but may [...]
PUNTERS have backed West Coast to over come an injury-ravaged Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium tomorrow. The Eagles have their own injury problems with Josh Kennedy out because of a freak accident at training led him to an eye injury. He joins Nic Naitanui and Daniel Kerr on the sidelines. But the Dogs are worse [...]
FN’s roving reporter DANIEL PAPROTH previews all the action in Round 19 of the AFL. He also provides some hints for last minute changes to your Dream Team or Supercoach teams. North Melbourne vs Carlton, Friday 7:40, Etihad Stadium Both sides had emphatic victories last week, but it was perhaps Carlton who came away with [...]
RETIRED Bomber Mark Williams will always be remembered as a Hawthorn premiership player despite registering a disappointing four games in two seasons at Essendon. Williams, who was a leading goalkicker at Hawthorn, was part of the team that dominated the third term against the Cats to take the points in the 2008 grand final. He [...]
WESTERN Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade was besieged a month ago as a possible target of being sacked after a disappointing season at the helm of the club. But now, he may contemplate jumping ship to the team that he just missed on snaring the coaching position at in 2004. Eade missed out on the coaching [...]
ADELAIDE coach Neil Craig this week stepped down from his coaching role at the Crows after the clubs’ insipid performance against St Kilda on Friday night. The Saints crushed the Crows by 103 points with Adelaide scoring its lowest score – 3.6 (24) – since entering the competition in 1991. Craig had no choice but [...]
PORT Melbourne’s 24-point win over Sandringham was a tribute to skipper Ryan ‘Shooter’ McMahon’s 200th match. Certainly McMahon reaching 200 games in the VFL is unheard of in the current climate where most teams are dominated by AFL alignments and the turnover of players at every club – stand alone or not – is enormous. [...]
WESTERN Bulldogs defender Brian Lake’s season has been confirmed over by the club but it is still yet to be determined whether he will remain at the club next season. Carlton, Hawthorn and Greater Western Sydney are understood to be keen on Lake despite currently contracted at the Bulldogs for next season. Although, all three [...]
HAWTHORN is set to regain midfielders Chance Bateman and Matt Suckling for this week’s clash against Fremantle at Patersons Stadium. The Hawks injury list is shortening rapidly and appear to be the looking the goods in the run home to the finals. Cameron Bruce also got through unscathed in the VFL on the weekend; as [...]
ST KILDA has confirmed that it will play injury-prone ruckman Michael Gardiner in the VFL for one more week despite the veteran impressing on return last week for Sandringham. The Saints have taken a cautious approach on the big man, who promises to be a major boost to the Saints finals hopes in the run [...]
Click here and sign up for your $100 free bet with FootballNation and IAS Bet!