WELCOME to the latest instalment of Football Nation’s unofficial AFL injury list as we approach Round 9 of the 2013 season. We continue to trawl the web, looking at each club’s website, the AFL site and the main news sites in order to put together our best guess for a league-wide report. It’s not perfect but then again what

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Dylan Grimes’ horrendous run of injuries continues, with the Richmond defender set to miss up to eight more weeks in the

WESTERN Bulldogs midfielder Jackson Macrae has been rewarded for his efforts against the Gold Coast Suns last weekend with the Round 8 Rising Star nomination. The 18 year old Macrae had 26 possessions and four tackles in the club’s losing perfromance against the Suns. “Jackson is a young person who understands he has talent, and has

YET another busy day today for the AFL’s Match Review Panel after the incidents came through thick and fast from the weekend’s games and especially the halftime melee that marred the Richmond vs Melbourne game. On the basis of their review the MRP have laid the following charges:   West Coast vs North Melbourne: After

THE ever growing injury list at the Fremantle Dockers has claimed another big name with news today that star forward Michael Walters will miss the next three to four weeks with an ankle injury. The gun forward injured his ankle during the third quarter of Fremantle’s draw with Sydney at the SCG on Saturday night.

WHILE the second expansion team, Greater Western Sydney, continued to struggle, the powers-that-be at the AFL can take some delight from the performance of the first true expansion team since 1995, Gold Coast.

In each of the Gold Coast’s first two seasons they won three games: against Richmond (twice), Port Adelaide, Brisbane, GWS and Carlton. In eight rounds this year, they’ve already won four – and have added St Kilda, Melbourne and now the Western Bulldogs to the list of teams they’ve beaten

NOT only did North Adelaide win for the fifth time this season, to move clear in third spot on the SANFL ladder, it came from behind to beat a form team in the Eagles, to demonstrate its credentials as a legitimate premiership contender. The Roosters are finding ways to win, which is a trait traditionally

        Round 7 Results   West Adelaide 11.11-77 def Port Adelaide 9.8-62 7:10 PM, Fri 17 May at City Mazda Stadium GOALS West Adelaide: R. Ferguson (c) 3, A. Fielke 2, T. Keough 2, P. Nelson , D. Webb , S. Green , B. Macreadie Port Adelaide: G. Johncock 3, J. Johansen 2, L.

CARLTON coach Mick Malthouse admits the Blues remain very much a work in progress after grinding their way to an 18-point win over a disappointing Port Adelaide at Etihad Stadium.

Carlton won a scrappy game 16.13 (109) to 14.7 (91), with captain Marc Murphy kicking three goals playing mostly as a forward in his 150th match, Jeff Garlett snaring four and Heath Scotland slotting two majors in his 250th game

ADELAIDE’S 40-point win over St Kilda at AAMI Stadium on Sunday was an important one as it levelled its season at 4-4 after eight rounds.

The Crows, while not as dynamic as last week against the Giants, still managed to run the Saints off their legs. Tom Lynch kicked 10 goals last week for the Giants and against the Saints, he finished with 2-1 but perhaps may have enjoyed the win better given he was a former Saint

THE Western Bulldogs, who have won just the one match for the season and that was in round one, are in desperate need of replenishing entering their nine clash against St Kilda on Saturday. After the disappointing loss to the Gold Coast Suns, the Bulldogs could look to Nathan Hrovat for a recall after he

WITHOUT doubt the biggest change has come about with Geelong’s first loss of the season.  In coming up just one goal short against Collingwood, the door was opened for Hawthorn to seize top spot on the ladder for the first time this year. Geelong hasn’t fallen far, after all they’ve only lost one game, and

ADELAIDE CROWS
vs
ST KILDA SAINTS
Sunday May 19, 4:10pm, AAMI Stadium

GAME OVER: ADELAIDE 12.15 (87) def ST KILDA 6.11 (47)

CARLTON BLUES
vs
PORT ADELAIDE
Sunday May 19, 1:10pm, Etihad Stadium

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IN a game that even their most loyal followers thought would be beyond them, the Collingwood Football Club demonstrated a toughness and resilience that has silenced the chorus of naysayers.

In front of an MCG crowd of 66,768 the Magpies handed Geelong their first defeat of season and in doing so re-invigorated their 2013 campaign

WITH only seconds to spare, Nic Naitanui became the showstopper last night, as a thrilling after the siren goal stole the show from North Melbourne.

The win saved the Eagles from another gut-wrenching home ground loss after chalking up a poor 3-2 record this year.

Déjà vu came rushing back for Eagles fans, as the heroics of Leo Barry’s 2005 grand final-saving mark were quickly reversed – this time at the opposite end

Football Nation’s roving reporter DANIEL PAPROTH gives us his take and his picks on the first games of Round 8.   West Coast vs North Melbourne Friday 8:40 Patersons Stadium Round eight kicks off with what is, on paper, a very interesting game. Both West Coast and North Melbourne are currently sitting outside the top eight with

              WEST COAST EAGLES v NORTH MELBOURNE Friday May 17, 6:40pm, Patersons Stadium West Coast B: Brennan, Glass, Schofield HB: Hurn, Mackenzie, Waters C: Rosa, S Selwood, Gaff HF: LeCras, Darling, Masten F: Hill, Kennedy, Kerr Foll: Naitanui, Priddis, Shuey I/C: Sheppard, Wellingham, Cox, A Selwood Emg: Brown, Dalziell,

WELCOME to the latest instalment of Football Nation’s unofficial AFL injury list as we approach Round 8 of the 2013 season. We continue to trawl the web, looking at each club’s website, the AFL site and the main news sites in order to put together our best guess for a league-wide report. It’s not perfect but then again what

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: In another frustration for Carlton, the Blues are set to lose small forward Eddie Betts for three matches in a serious match review panel setback

RICHMOND’S Nick Vlastuin, the club’s top pick of the 2012 National Draft, has been rewarded for hi efforts in Saturday’s victory over Port Adelaide with the Round 7 Rising Star nomination. Vlastuin’s efforts in the the Tigers’ 41 point win over the Power included 23 disposals, 11 marks and one goal. Vlastuin was the ninth

ST KILDA and Carlton have produced another thriller in their annual Monday night clash, with the Saints victorious by nine points infront of 34,000 at Etihad Stadium.

The Blues had a horrid start to the match, losing Michael Jamison (shoulder), David Ellard (hamstring) and Chris Yarran (hamstring), on top of the late withdrawal of utility Andrew Carrazzo (calf) and the absent Jarrad Waite (suspension) and Bryce Gibbs (hamstring)

IT was a busy day today for the AFL’s Match Review Panel and that was in spite of the fact that there is still one game to be played in Round 7. Following a review of the weekend’s games the MRP have laid the following charges: Geelong vs Essendon James Kelly, Geelong, has been charged

SOUTH Australia continued its State League dominance on Saturday with a resounding 82-point victory over NEAFL at Richmond Oval, for its 12th win from its past 14 interstate games, dating back to 1996. The victory was hard earned after a spirited fightback by the NEAFL in the second quarter, with a dominant second half squashing

AFTER losing Taylor Walker the question that hung over this Adelaide Crows team was who would step up and provide the team with it’s target in the forward line.

After handing the GWS Giants a 135 point loss, the Crows would seem to have found the answer to that question with Tom Lynch having a career day with a 10 goal performance.

Lynch, 22, was traded from St Kilda to Adelaide after the end of the 2011 season as part of a three-way deal with Richmond, which saw Ivan Maric go to the Tigers, and with the Saints getting the Crows’ second-round draft pick

DIRECTLY after its 135-point shellacking to the hands of Adelaide, Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy has criticised Melbourne-based AFL clubs for not having the “guts” to trade some of their experienced players for draft picks. It is understood that the Giants were after players in the ilk of Collingwood’s Dale Thomas, Carlton’s Matthew Kreuzer

THERE are murmurings from senior media officials that Mark Neeld’s tenure as coach of Melbourne could be up as early as Monday with Melbourne set to lose to the Gold Coast Suns. Neeld, who has been under increasing pressure since its start to the season, has struggled to help some of the key Melbourne brigade

THE Western Bulldogs continue to languish in the bottom four after another spirited but ultimately unsuccessful outing against North Melbourne on Saturday evening.

But it is fair to say that most will remember the game for Majak Daw’s efforts. The former Sudanese refugee kicked 6.4 to light up Etihad Stadium in a performance that won’t soon be forgotten

GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY GIANTS
vs
ADELAIDE CROWS
Sunday 12th May, 1:10pm, Skoda Stadium

GAME OVER: ADELAIDE 29.13 (187) def GWS GIANTS 7.10 (52)

IN what was a classic crossroads game for Richmond, the Tigers reversed their three-game losing streak with a much needed road win over Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium yesterday afternoon.

The Tigers had begun the season with three straight wins before dropping the last three and had settled into their all too familiar ninth place spot on the ladder and a narrow loss to Fremantle two weeks ago almost demonstrating how in spit of improvements the club was not quite there yet

PORT ADELAIDE POWER
vs
RICHMOND TIGERS
Saturday 11th May, 1:15pm, AAMI Stadium
GAME OVER: RICHMOND 18.6 (114) def PORT ADELAIDE 10.13 (73)

Football Nation’s roving reporter DANIEL PAPROTH gives us his take and his picks on the first games of Round 7.   Geelong vs Essendon Friday 7:50 Etihad Stadium There is always hype when two unbeaten teams meet two months into a season. But rarely has there seemed to be as much hype as there is for this

GEELONG CATS v ESSENDON Friday 10th May, 7:50pm, Etihad Stadium Geelong B: Andrew Mackie, Tom Lonergan, Corey Enright HB: Cameron Guthrie, Harry Taylor, Taylor Hunt C: Mitch Duncan, Jimmy Bartel, Steven Motlop HF: Allen Christensen, Steve Johnson, Billie Smedts F: Mathew Stokes, Tom Hawkins, James Podsiadly Foll: Trent West, Joel Selwood, James Kelly Int: George

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Are we seeing the first signs of decline in the magnificent career of Chris Judd or at this stage of his football life can he only get himself up for the big games

WELCOME to the latest instalment of Football Nation’s unofficial AFL injury list as we approach Round 7 of the 2013 season. We continue to trawl the web, looking at each club’s website, the AFL site and the main news sites in order to put together our best guess for a league-wide report. It’s not perfect but then again what

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Richmond ruckman Ivan Maric has made a promising recovery from an ankle injury and is considered a chance to face Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Saturday

SLICK Hawthorn small forward Bradley Hill has received the round six AFL NAB Rising Star nomination. The 19 year old impressed in just his 11th match as a pro. He collected 17 disposals and kicked two goals in what was yet another impressive performance from the speedster this year. Hill played the last five games

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Saints utility Arryn Siposs is relishing the opportunity to forge a goal-kicking partnership with St Kilda skipper Nick Riewoldt

ST KILDA battler Justin Koschitzke can accept two matches upon an early guilty plea for striking Collingwood young gun Jamie Elliot. The incident occurred during the second quarter during Friday night’s clash. The original sanction was 3 matches (325 demerit points) but an early guilty plea will reduce the sanction by 25%. Returning Carlton forward

CONSIGNED to one of the toughest opponents in the SANFL this season, North Adelaide triumphed by 21-point against Norwood at Prospect, but dropped one place on the premiership table! Sitting third before the weekend, with a huge five-plus percentage advantage over the fourth-placed Eagles, North fell a spot on the table after Woodville West Torrens

THE much-hyped Richmond-Geelong clash was very much a game of two halves. The first was an interesting, good quality game between two sides testing each other out; one team would hold the momentum for a certain period before it inevitably swung back.

Richmond led at quarter time and extended their lead in the second before the Cats got back in front to lead by five at the half.

        Round 6 Results   West Adelaide 18.7-115 def Glenelg 10.5-65 7:10 PM, Fri 3 May at City Mazda Stadium GOALS West Adelaide: T. Slattery 4, R. Anderson 3, B. Macreadie 2, T. Silverlock 2, J. Beech , D. Caire , D. Webb , T. Keough , L. Hill , S. Bricknell , M.

COULD the AFL have engineered a more compelling game for next Friday night? After both Essendon and Geelong continued in their winning ways, their Round 7 matchup at Etihad Stadium looks set to be the game of the season. Sitting one notch behind that game will be the Grand Final rematch between Sydney and Hawthorn

IS it encouraging or not so encouraging that Hawks superstar Lance Franklin was held goal-less for the second consecutive week and the Hawks have gone on to win a close one?

The Hawks prevailed by 11-points on the back of skipper Luke Hodge’s brilliant work in the midfield with 29 disposals

WITH seniors coach Ken Hinkley back at home revovering from a viral infection that had seen him hospitalised just a few days ago, Port Adelaide faced North Melbourne in Hobart and came up just 10 points short.

For the Kangaroos it was a much needed victory, just their second for the season, and one that their supporters would have felt would have been easier to get

Adelaide Crows
vs
Hawthorn Hawks

WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 4:10pm ACST
WHERE: AAMI Stadium (SA)
GAME OVER: HAWTHORN 13.11 (89) def ADELAIDE 11.12 (78)

North Melbourne Kangaroos
vs
Port Adelaide Power

WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 2:10pm AEST
WHERE: Blundstone Arena (TAS)
GAME OVER: North Melbourne 14.9.93 def Port Adelaide

  Football Nation’s roving reporter DANIEL PAPROTH gives us his take and his picks on the first games of Round 6.   Collingwood vs St Kilda Friday 7:50 Etihad Stadium Collingwood’s opponent last week, Essendon, is certainly in dazzling form. But few would have predicted the Bombers to so run over the top of the Magpies towards

Adelaide Crows
vs
Hawthorn Hawks

WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 4:10pm AEST
WHERE: AAMI Stadium (SA)

North Melbourne Kangaroos
vs
Port Adelaide Power

WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 2:10pm AEST
WHERE: Blundstone Arena (TAS)

WE can argue all day about who the most valuable player is for the Port Adelaide Power with Justin Westhoff, Hamish Hartlett or Chad Wingard all worthwhile candidates.  But in terms of the most valuable person at Port Adelaide goes that would have to be first year coach Ken Hinkley. And he is now set to

THEY may not be getting the results on the field so far this year but the Adelaide Crows are getting things done in the office with an announcement this afternoon that they have re-signed Brent Reilly, Tom Lynch and Cam Ellis-Yolmen. “The blend of the list is very healthy at the moment, so to have Brent’s experience,

WELCOME to the latest instalment of Football Nation’s unofficial AFL injury list as we approach Round 6 of the 2013 season. We continue to trawl the web, looking at each club’s website, the AFL site and the main news sites in order to put together our best guess for a league-wide report. It’s not perfect but then again what

GOLD Coast prodigy Jaeger O’Meara has taken out the NAB AFL Rising Star nomination for Round 5. O’Meara came into the league upon a wave of expectation and has more then lived up to the hype. Sometimes compared to a young Chris Judd, O’Meara had 25 touches, 4 tackles, 2 goals and a mammoth 11

GUN Fremantle midfielder Nathan Fyfe has been charged with a level two kicking offence, (250 demerit points, 2 match sanction) after an incident involving Richmond midfielder Daniel Jackson in the second quarter of Friday night’s clash. Upon a guilty plea, Fyfe can reduce his sanction to one match and 187.50 demerit points. Richmond’s Brad Helbig

THE Hawks weathered the storm and held off a surging North Melbourne yesterday but the win came with a price with news confirming that Cyril Rioli will miss at least seven weeks of football with a hamstring tear. The star forward, who had four goals, five marks and 20 disposals against the Roos, went down

THE news is in and it’s not good for the Adelaide Crows after it was confirmed this afternoon that Taylor Walker has indeed ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and will now miss the rest of the season. Scans this afternoon revealed not only the ruptured ACL in his right knee but additional damage to the

ANZAC Day is a special event on the SANFL calendar but it wasn’t the football on the field that created the headlines this week, it was the half time confrontation between the coaches. Reigning premier Norwood moved back to the top of the ladder after beating West Adelaide by 26 points, after trailing by 10

          Round 5 Results Norwood 9.13-67 def West Adelaide 6.5-41 3:10 PM, Thu 25 Apr at Coopers Stadium GOALS Norwood:   B. Zorzi 2, D. Pfeiffer 2, K. Murphy , S. Phillips , M. Grigg , B. Jefferies , B. Dawe West Adelaide:  P. Nelson 2, T. Silverlock 2, B. Kirk ,

THE Brisbane Lions secured their second win of the season after a hard fought win over the Melbourne Demons at The Gabba in front of a disappointing crowd of just 19,018.

In a scrappy affair that won’t make too many 2013 highlight reels, Brisbane did just enough to see off the plucky Dees who were hoping to get their second win in succession

Five weeks in and we are starting to see some separation amongst the teams in this year’s competition but as you cast your eye over the top eight there is no more surprising team at the top end than Port Adelaide. The Power is sitting very comfortably at the number two spot and deservedly so.

PORT Adelaide came back from a 41 point deficit late in the third term to stun the West Coast Eagles by five points on Saturday night at AAMI Stadium.

It was vintage West Coast for the first half with the Eagles overwhelming the Power through the midfield and generating a lot of supply inside their forward half of the ground

EVERYONE expected Geelong to race away with a thumping victory over the Western Bulldogs on Saturday night, but few would have predicted what happened in the final term.

Leading by 36 points at three-quarter time it seemed to be a matter of how much the Cats would win by. But Geelong could manage just five behinds in the last quarter, going goalless as the Bulldogs kicked three goals

TWELVE months is a long time in football, and it probably feels especially long for Brenton Sanderson and the Adelaide Crows after they lost to a surging Carlton team by 32 point at the MCG yesterday.

This year the Crows have managed just two wins in five games and have yet to consistently show any of the form that saw them finish second on the ladder in

Port Adelaide Power
vs
West Coast Eagles

WHEN: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 7:15pm ACST
WHERE: AAMI Stadium (SA)
Final Score: PORT ADELAIDE 12.12 (84) def WEST COAST 10.19 (79)

UPDATE: 5:48pm: Various tweets have been sent suggesting that Taylor Walker has strained his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) and is likely to miss six to 10 weeks.  We’ll post more as soon as confirmation is available.     ADELAIDE Crows spearhead Tex Walker has limped off the field with the assistance of trainers after appearing to injury his

Carlton Blues
vs
Adelaide Crows

WHEN: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 4:40pm EST
WHERE: MCG (VIC)
Final Score: CARLTON 17.13 (115) def ADELAIDE 12.11 (83)

  Football Nation’s roving reporter DANIEL PAPROTH gives us his take and his picks on the first games of Round 5.     Collingwood vs Essendon ANZAC Day, April 25 2013 2:40pm Melbourne Cricket Ground As we commemorate and remember our fallen servicemen and women on ANZAC Day, Collingwood and Essendon once again do battle on the

Port Adelaide Power
vs
West Coast Eagles

WHEN: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 7:15pm ACST
WHERE: AAMI Stadium (SA)

Carlton Blues
vs
Adelaide Crows

WHEN: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 4:40pm EST
WHERE: MCG (VIC)

THE Adelaide Crows have taken to Twitter to reveal that promising youngster Brad Crouch will miss at least two games after straining a hamstring at training this afternoon. “Unfortunately, we lost Brad Crouch today to a hamstring injury at training. We won’t know until he has scans but it doesn’t look too bad” read the

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Eddie McGuire talked with the GWS football manager about the value of Collingwood players but says claims he offered Dane Swan are “a joke”

GEELONG seem to have produced yet another productive youngster in big bodied midfielder George Horlin-Smith who has been awarded Round 4′s AFL NAB Rising Star nomination. Horlin-Smith was everywhere in Geelong’s clash with the Swans amassing 23 disposals and a goal. Perhaps even more impressive were his seven clearances and four inside 50′s. Horlin-Smith was

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Greater Western Sydney CEO David Matthews says the club is ‘obliged’ to consider luring Hawthorn superstar Lance Franklin to the Giants when he is out of contract at the end of

The MRP had quite a busy sitting today, here is a look at their rulings. Richmond livewire Steve Morris has been offered a one match suspension with an early plea after Saturday’s match against Collingwood at the MCG. Morris engaged in rough conduct to the head of Collingwood small forward Jamie Elliot when laying a Shepard

THE Gold Coast Suns have revealed that Matthew Warnock will need to undergo surgery after he fractured  his left radius in the club’s loss to Port Adelaide last Saturday night. Warnock, 29, broke his arm after falling awkwardly and will require surgery in order to have a plate inserted. “Matthew was transported to hospital immediately

JUST two years ago Central District was in its 12th consecutive grand final and West Adelaide had missed the finals for the seventh consecutive season. Fast forward to 2013 and the Bulldogs are win-less and on the bottom of the SANFL ladder, while the Bloods are four-for-four and perched atop the premiership table. And on

Round 4 is in the books, so without further ado let’s look at the match reports for each game:   GEELONG 19.10 (124) def SYDNEY 16.7 (103) GEELONG remain undefeated in season 2013 after a 21 point win over the Sydney Swans at the SCG. After an exhilarating opening term, which saw 15 goals kicked between

ADELAIDE 12.8 (80) def WESTERN BULLDOGS 4.4 (28) THE result was a 52-point win to Adelaide and in this encounter that was slow to get going, it was Patrick Dangerfield, who scored the Crows first three goals and created some excitement. The only real talking point was the suspected shoulder injury to Ryan Griffen, which

WHILE we celebrate the fact that Melbourne got their first win of the season after a spectacular 12-goal final quarter, we should also remember the fact that Carlton got their first win as well in the Malthouse era.  It came later than we all expected but unlike Melbourne they have been close all year and

Adelaide Crows
vs
Western Bulldogs

WHEN: Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 2:50pm EST
WHERE: AAMI Stadium (SA)
Final Score: ADELAIDE 12.8 (80) def WESTERN BULLDOGS 4.4 (28)

IT is as if the Hawks round one loss to Geelong has added a hard edge to the brown and gold – and rather than become dispirited after that close result – they have instead become unified.

The 42-point win against Fremantle was its third in a row on Saturday in Launceston. Arguably they have the toughest draw out of any team in the first seven rounds, playing most finallists from last season.

            Round 4 Results   West Adelaide 8.10-58 def North Adelaide 7.15-57 Fri 19 Apr 7:10 PM at City Mazda Stadium GOALS West Adelaide:  T. Silverlock 3, J. Beech 2, A. Fielke , D. Webb , S. Green North Adelaide:  L. Ryswyk , D. Stewart , M. Thring , J.

MICK Malthouse had his first win as a Carlton coach after his Blues defeated West Coast by 24 points at Patersons Stadium on Saturday night.

Sam Rowe had Carlton on the board with the first goal of the game at the six minute mark

THE Gold Coast Suns started strongly, applying heaps of pressure early withstanding Port’s good start after the visitors kicked the opening two goals. However, The Suns, superbly led by Gary Ablett Jr with 15 first quarter touches, were able to apply some scoreboard pressure of their own to surprisingly lead at quarter time

Gold Coast Suns
vs
Port Adelaide Power

WHEN: Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 7:40pm EST
WHERE: Metricon Stadium (QLD)
Final Score: PORT ADELAIDE 16.8 (104) def GOLD COAST 9.12 (66)

Football Nation’s roving reporter DANIEL PAPROTH gives us his take and his picks on all of the games in Round 4.   Sydney vs Geelong Friday 7:50 SCG There are five undefeated teams heading into this weekend, but by later tonight that will be cut to four as the reigning premier faces its toughest test yet against

Adelaide Crows
vs
Western Bulldogs

WHEN: Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 2:50pm EST
WHERE: AAMI Stadium (SA)

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Decorated Brisbane champion SIMON BLACK is set for his highly anticipated comeback in what could be his final AFL season

Gold Coast Suns
vs
Port Adelaide Power

WHEN: Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 7:40pm EST
WHERE: Metricon Stadium (QLD)

WELCOME to the latest instalment of Football Nation’s unofficial AFL injury list as we approach Round 4 of the 2013 season. We continue to trawl the web, looking at each club’s website, the AFL site and the main news sites in order to put together our best guess for a league-wide report. It’s not perfect but then again what

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: North Melbourne coach BRAD SCOTT is insisting on a more four-quarter performance from his Kangaroos as they attempt to avoid slipping from finals contention just a month into the AFL season

ADELAIDE Crows captain Nathan van Berlo will miss up to four weeks of football after scans confirmed that he had sustained bone bruising around his knee during the club’s match against Port Adelaide on Sunday. Van Berlo left the game late in the third quarter of the game with Bernie Vince coming on to take

AS soon as I think that the AFL cannot get any more exciting, any more dramatic, any more fan-bloody-tastic, I am proven wrong. I can no longer trust the football. Every time I believe one thing, the other happens. Every time something extraordinary happens, it gets better.

HAWTHORN youngster Jed Anderson has been selected as Round 3′s AFL Rising Star nominee. Anderson played a pivotal role in Hawthorn’s massive win on Sunday against Collingwood at the MCG. In front of nearly 73,000 people, the young midfielder didn’t shy away from the big stage like most youngsters, in fact he was exceptional against

IN a busy day the AFL’s Match Review Panel has issued the following findings for incidents that occurred during Round 3: Fremantle vs Essendon On the night when he was supposed to be celebrating his 200th game for the Dockers, Fremantle’s Luke McPharlin was involved in a nasty collision with Essendon’s Paddy Ryder early in the first

AFTER a quiet first three quarters, Port Adelaide Magpies defender Luke Slattery went forward in the last term to boot two goals, including the game’s final major, to help his side to a two-point victory over Glenelg in the SANFL match at Alberton. Predicted by many to finish bottom, the Magpies were competitive all game

SOME leading commentators said after Geelong’s finals loss to Fremantle in September last year that its premiership window was well and truly closed. But the Cats have a talented young brigade that has them charging back up the ladder quicker than expected,

Round 3 is in the books, so without further ado let’s look at the match reports for each game:   ESSENDON 10.12 (72) def FREMANTLE 9.14 (68) OUT of the darkness Essendon have lifted themselves from one of the most tumultuous weeks in the club’s history to record an inspiring four-point upset win against Fremantle

AMAZINGLY, Port Adelaide is one of only a handful of teams that are undefeated after three rounds and it continued its run with a nine-point win over Adelaide in the showdown at AAMI Stadium on Sunday. Port was trailing Adelaide by 31-points in the third term and the comeback was initiated by Justin Westhoff, who