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Inexperienced Sydney Swans recruit Tom Derickx is set to shoulder a big ruck burden against mighty Hawthorn at ANZ Stadium on Friday. Derickx, who has played just eight AFL games, …

Matthew Lloyd and Dermott Brereton have made public pleas for the AFL tribunal to clear Melbourne’s Jack Viney. Viney was referred directly to the tribunal on Monday for his bump …

Former Queensland State of Origin representative Adam Mogg will join the Warriors as assistant coach for the rest of the NRL season. Mogg fills the gap left when Andrew McFadden …

Dual Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes says Eddie McGuire’s racial gaffe last year ended their friendship. The AFL superstar told a business breakfast in Sydney on Monday: “Friends don’t make jokes …

Manly coach Geoff Toovey is expecting star halfback Daly Cherry-Evans to be fit for Saturday’s NRL clash with Melbourne despite a calf strain picked up in Friday’s Test cameo appearance. …

Sydney’s $10 million man Lance Franklin may not know until Wednesday whether he’ll be passed fit to play in Friday’s AFL clash with his former club Hawthorn. Franklin missed last …

AFL club Hawthorn will be without gun midfielder Sam Mitchell for eight weeks. Scans on Monday confirmed Mitchell had suffered a serious hamstring injury in Saturday’s 145-point win over St …

Melbourne midfielder Jack Viney was referred directly to the AFL tribunal on Monday for his bump that left Adelaide forward Tom Lynch nursing a broken jaw. Lynch was sandwiched between …

Wests Tigers coach Mick Potter says Luke Brooks has progressed beyond being an under 20s player and called for the NRL to review their selection criteria for junior rep games. …

Queensland Rugby League boss Peter Betros on Monday spoke with the NRL to question the under 20s State of Origin concept after a controversial interstate clash that resulted in a …

On paper it’s a simple a change to make for AFL club Adelaide: a forward for a forward. But the reality of Taylor Walker’s return and the injury-enforced omission of …

He’s just another jumper to Luke Hodge but to footy fans, Lance Franklin’s reunion with Hawthorn is the stuff of AFL dreams. Hawks fans want to boast, Swans fans want …

Brumbies hooker Stephen Moore says his side can’t afford to be distracted by the highly publicised return of former coach Jake White to Canberra. The Sharks will make the trip …

All it took was a stern word from his mum to turn Brett Morris from a “pedestrian” winger into one of the NRL’s best. But as for brother Josh, well, …

NSW under-20s halfback Mitchell Moses has been given a two-match ban for making a homophobic on-field slur in the spiteful junior State of Origin rugby league match after he apologised …

West Coast vice-captain Scott Selwood admits a host of players need to break out of their form slump if the team is to turn around its flagging AFL season. The …

Canterbury is yet to be given the all-clear over its botched multi-million dollar deal with Andrew Fifita, with the NRL revealing some aspects of the contract saga are still being …

Wallabies prop James Slipper has been suspended from Queensland’s next two matches as the failing Reds search for a solution to their Super Rugby woes. Slipper was on Monday suspended …