HAWTHORN has announced that they have signed a new deal with yet another star player not named Lance Franklin, after revealing this morning that Jarryd Roughead has agreed to a two year contract extension. With one year still remaining on his current contract, the new deal will see the Hawks forward remain with the club

HAWTHORN’S forward line appears to be working overtime to prevent any conscious reliability on Lance Franklin this season. Despite Franklin’s goal-less fortnight prior to the win against the Swans on Saturday night, coach Alastair Clarkson said he was happy with Franklin’s output up forward which allowed for other goalkicking contributors. Jarryd Roughead, David Hale, Jack

(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

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

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

(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

WAS there ever any doubt that the Hawthorn Football Club would re-sign its captain Luke Hodge? The Hawks have announced that they have signed a contract extension with Hodge that will see him with the club through t the end of 2014 and in doing so have taken him out of this year’s free agency

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: There was a time when Sydney’s TED RICHARDS thought he was going to have a very short career in the

IF Andy Warhol was alive today, chances are he wouldn’t have liked the weekend’s first round of the AFL. Like the familiar feeling of a burnt tongue following a scorching pie, real footy is back in business. (Although the media would have to believe that footy never sleeps) So exciting was the first week(s) of

ALL eyes are on Lance Franklin but more for off-field purposes than on-field this season. His contract negotiations have stalled and while publicly that is a surprise to many, the reality of free agency is amongst the football world with Franklin’s name standing out mainly because he is a bigger name. But there are many

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Hyped Gold Coast teenager JAEGER O’’MEARA will make his senior debut against St Kilda at Metricon Stadium on Saturday night

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: The Power elevated rookie KANE MITCHELL on Tuesday, but there’s no guarantee the 23-year-old Western Australian will play round one, or even remain on the senior list until season’s end

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Demons wunderkind JACK VINEY remains a Round 1 lock, despite not playing since the first round of the NAB Cup

HAWTHORN has been in the thick of the action since 2008 when it snared a flag from nowhere. Some commentators said at the time that the Hawks have pinched one earlier than expected. Really from there, the team has largely disappointed in terms of flag success and its biggest opportunities have been over the past

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: The Hawks would not be compensated for the loss of LANCE FRANKLIN under proposed changes to the AFL’s free agency
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(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Melbourne midfielder NATHAN JONES says no-one should expect Jimmy Toumpas and Jack Viney to dominate for a while yet

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Melbourne co-captain JACK TRENGOVE and goalkicking forward Mitch Clark remain in the mix to play in Melbourne’s opening match of the season

IT’S a good day for supporters of the Western Bulldogs after the club last night overcame league powerhouse Hawthorn in a close contest at Etihad Stadium and, in doing so, snapped a 14 game losing streak

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Michael Voss wants to win the NAB Cup and his Brisbane Lions are in a good position to do just that after round one of the pre-season competition

HAWTHORN appeared to be in third or fourth gear when it lost to the Gold Coast and Brisbane Lions last night but the most concerning factor was a knee injury to plucky defender Paul Puopolo. It is believed Puopolo’s injury isn’t serious as he was walking around after the match but it will derail his

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Suns defender SEB TAPE is confident his knee will recover fully and is focused on assisting recently recruited defenders Tom Murphy and Greg Broughton settle in to a strengthened and miserly backline

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: New Carlton coach Mick Malthouse has played an early hand in Blues playing changes thrusting dashing play-maker Chris Yarran into midfield running duties in a practice match

HAWTHORN star Lance Franklin committed himself to the club verbally yesterday but it will take until the end of the season to perhaps put it down on paper. And so the speculation will remain but clubs are somewhat pessimistic that Buddy will actually leave. Such a turnaround in attitude may conclude to being the biggest

HAWTHORN superstar Lance Franklin is expected to speak at a press conference today amidst speculation he will leave the club at the end of the season after his management declared he wanted to hold off contract talks. AFL clubs have already swung into action preparing tactics to snare Buddy with Adelaide and Fremantle at the

JUST as Collingwood’s Travis Cloke did, Hawthorn superstar Lance Franklin has opted to wait until the end of the season to begin contract talks as speculation begins today that he may ponder a new home. Franklin informed the Hawks this week that he wanted to hold off contract talks until the end of the season

WE analyse those players at the centre of a drug-taking conspiracy and how a second AFL player reaching three strikes could be imminent

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: Saints defender James Gwilt says he is in a good space mentally and physically heading into the new AFL season

TWO Hawthorn recruits – assistant coach Brett Ratten and defender Brian Lake – believe they can help improve two of the Hawks’ biggest weapons in Sam Mitchell and Lance Franklin. Ratten, who joined the Hawks as a senior assistant after being sacked by Carlton, said that he believes that Mitchell can improve his game further under

Continuing our end of the year top five series, we take a look back on the year that was and give you our opinion on the top 5 Individual Performances of the 2012 AFL season.   5. Gary Ablett (GC) v North Melbourne – Ablett had a blistering start to the season and even registered

(DAILY ONE LINERS) Pictured: It might still only be November, but Port Adelaide’s new defensive coach Matthew Nicks is already impressed with the club’s latest recruits, most notably ex-Bomber ANGUS MONFRIES.

(DAILY ONE LINERS) St Kilda: The Saints have finally given up on waiting for Raphael Clarke to cement a senior spot, cutting him after 85 games in nine AFL seasons

HAWTHORN’S Lance Franklin is finally set to return to the Hawks line-up after making the flight from Melbourne to Sydney to take on the Swans at the SCG on Saturday night. Coach Alastair Clarkson said too much focus on the game has been on Buddy, coming back from a five game stint on the sidelines

ON a day that Matthew Pavlich jumped past John Coleman’s goalkicking tally, the Fremantle skipper also took the lead for the medal named in his honour with eight goals in the western derby in its 65-point win over West Coast at Patersons Stadium. Pavlich was a unanimous winner of the Ross Glendinning Medal for the

HAWTHORN is likely to resist temptation to bring star forward Lance Franklin back for this Friday night’s blockbuster against Geelong with doubt surrounding his hamstring injury. Franklin suffered a hamstring strain in the week leading up to the match against Greater Western Sydney and strained it further by playing in that match. Dr Peter Larkins

THE Hawthorn Football Club yesterday revealed that superstar Lance Franklin will miss at least the next three weeks after scans on his leg yesterday revealed that he had suffered bleeding in his left hamstring on Sunday

HAWTHORN may opt to rest star forward Lance Franklin for next week’s clash against Greater Western Sydney even if he pulls up well from last night’s clash against Carlton. Franklin, who kicked four goals, suffered hamstring tightness in the final term. Coach Alastair Clarkson believes the injury wasn’t a major concern as the Hawks approach

PLAYING key players out of position as an experiment has backfired on Hawthorn this season as it dances around the fact that it has plummeted from a premiership favourite to a finals hopeful. Lance Franklin has struggled with consistency both in front of goal and with his runs up the field, while Cyril Rioli has

MELBOURNE coach Mark Neeld says he could triple-team Hawks forward Buddy Franklin in tomorrow night’s clash against Hawthorn at the MCG. “Most clubs would lock in two or three [on Franklin]. You’ll always have one player that will spend more time on an opposition forward than the others,” Neeld said. “But all teams nowadays, there