Western Bulldogs youngster Mitch Wallis says their AFL win over Hawthorn felt so good he needed reminding it was just the pre-season. The Dogs’ comeback victory last Friday night, their …

Five Gold Coast players – including inaugural Suns Trent McKenzie, Zac Smith and Seb Tape – have re-signed with the AFL club. The trio have put to pen paper until …

An AFL interchange cap will be introduced next season no matter how much clubs dislike it. The limit of 80 rotations per game being trialled this pre-season has already drawn …

Co-captain Adam Goodes is set to make his long-awaited return from a knee injury for AFL premiers Sydney on Saturday night. The Swans host Gold Coast in a pre-season clash …

Five months ago an AFL flag slipped through their fingers. In seven months a champion might do the same. The 17 other clubs mightn’t be all that’s standing in the …

A young list that needs to get better. So reads a blunt assessment of so many AFL sides, including reigning premiers Sydney, in the mind of coach John Longmire. After …

Greater Western Sydney ruckman Jonathan Giles says his fledgling AFL side aren’t reading too much into their promising start to the pre-season but they’re “definitely in the right track”. GWS …

Chairman David Evans has promised Essendon fans that the AFL club will come through their doping crisis as a stronger organisation. Evans and coach James Hird made emotional speeches on …

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has brushed aside talk of going up against his old AFL boss Mick Malthouse three weeks earlier than planned. Depending on results this weekend, the Magpies …

Having traded public barbs over the AFL’s controversial interchange trial, Mick Malthouse and Kevin Bartlett will now thrash out the issue face to face. Malthouse has accepted an invitation to …

Richmond match winner Ricky Petterd was among three players cleared of incidents from the weekend’s AFL pre-season games. There will be no tribunal after the match review panel also decided …

Brisbane coach Michael Voss has stressed round one remains the Lions’ over-riding priority ahead of this weekend’s virtual pre-season cup semi-final against Collingwood. Victory over the Magpies at Etihad Stadium …

Sydney speedster Lewis Jetta will have his work cut out as rival teams plot to shut him down this AFL season, warns club legend Michael O’Loughlin. As is the Sydney …

St Kilda key position player Rhys Stanley will be out of AFL action for up to a month, but the news is better than first feared. Scans cleared the 22-year-old …

West Coast coach John Worsfold says his team’s “slow and rusty” display against Collingwood on Sunday is nothing to worry about heading into the season proper later this month. The …

From the outside, it has looked like another tumultuous off-season for Melbourne. The playing list has been overhauled and the ongoing AFL investigation into claims the club had deliberately underperformed …

Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson knows what’s coming. Heightened expectations. Greater scrutiny. No sneaking under the guard this time. Sanderson, in a dream debut as a head coach, took the Crows …

Collingwood defender Ben Reid escaped serious injury despite jarring his knee in Sunday’s 20-point pre-season cup victory over West Coast at Patersons Stadium. Reid looked to be in some trouble …