West Coast forward Josh Kennedy had a case of the goalkicking yips, but it didn’t prove costly as the Eagles secured a scrappy eight-point win over the Western Bulldogs in …

Gold Coast’s seven-year AFL history contains few big-game highlights – no finals, no Friday night blockbusters. So Sunday’s historic Shanghai match against Port Adelaide is a chance to make a …

David Koch is banking on Chinese loving the AFL as much as they love Australia. The Port Adelaide president says their historic match in Shanghai on Sunday against Gold Coast …

Sydney coach John Longmire has opted against fielding big man Kurt Tippett in Sunday’s do-or-die AFL clash with North Melbourne. The important tall has been absent for the past fortnight …

Melbourne have ruled ill forward Jesse Hogan out of Saturday night’s AFL clash with Adelaide. Hogan didn’t make the trip to Adelaide on Friday with his teammates, after missing training …

North Melbourne’s Lindsay Thomas will make the most of his five-week break and come back a fitter and more productive AFL player, according to club great Brent Harvey. Thomas copped …

Adelaide coach Don Pyke says he’s not jumping at the shadows cast on his AFL side by their first loss of the season. The ladder-leading Crows host Melbourne on Saturday …

Livewire Sydney AFL forward Tom Papley says he’s fitter than in his breakthrough year of 2016 despite undergoing two bouts of off-season knee surgery. Papley was Sydney’s second highest goalkicker …

Gold Coast are yet to decide whether they want to commit to more AFL matches against Port Adelaide in Shanghai. Suns chief executive Mark Evans said on Friday they want …

Lachie Whitfield is both physically and mentally ready to start afresh and return from a six-month AFL ban on Saturday, according to Greater Western Sydney coach Leon Cameron. The Giants …

Brendon Bolton is preparing AFL upstarts Carlton to face a premiership contender on Saturday when they play St Kilda. That’s how highly the Blues coach rates the emerging Saints ahead …

Alastair Clarkson says new Brisbane coach Chris Fagan knows all Hawthorn’s secrets after being a part of the AFL club for so long. But as the pair go head to …

The MCG will be hosting two festivals this weekend – one for the ‘Country Game’ and the other for AFL 300-gamer James Kelly. The Essendon utility notches the almighty milestone …

Remember the tarpaulins. They go a long way to explaining why Keith Thomas is sitting in a squat concrete grandstand at Shanghai’s Jiangwan Stadium, talking about China. In front of …

The last fortnight has given Ollie Wines a sweet taste of his AFL future, quickly followed by a bitter dose of reality. While the Port Adelaide star admits to dreaming …

From rough-around-the-edges country lad to seasoned AFL professional, Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin can’t help but admire Bernie Vince’s journey. Goodwin was a dual-premiership veteran with the Crows when Vince made …

It would be an exaggeration to say Geelong’s Irish recruit Mark O’Connor is jumping straight off a plane and into his AFL debut on Saturday night. But not much of …

Geelong have sent midfielder Lincoln McCarthy in for surgery in a bid to rectify his troublesome groin that has forced him to miss the past four AFL rounds with the …