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Chris Rogers, one of few Australian cricketers to master English conditions in recent years, is keen to pursue a career in coaching. Rogers has confirmed he will join Michael Clarke …
Continue reading Rogers keen to take coaching pathPlayers are eyeing a slice of the AFL’s new $2.5billion broadcast deal, pledging to fight for their share of the latest cash windfall. With a new collective bargaining agreement due …
Continue reading Marsh fighting for AFL player incomeDarren Lehmann walks into a stadium alongside Roy Hodgson, coach of England’s football side. It sounds an awful lot like the beginning of a joke at the expense of Australia’s …
Continue reading Aus cricketers meet England coach HodgsonOnce they were the most troubled muscles in the AFL, but Cyril Rioli says a few simple tricks have put his hamstring woes to bed. Rioli’s six goals against Geelong …
Continue reading Fit-again Rioli helped by hammy tricksMatthew Egan knows better than most what James Hird meant when the departing Essendon coach spoke about AFL adversity. Egan will take over from Hird as the Bombers’ interim senior …
Continue reading Egan knows all about AFL adversityEssendon star Brendon Goddard has hailed James Hird as a potentially great AFL coach and hopes his departure is the right decision. Goddard has admitted to shock and disappointment that …
Continue reading Goddard hails Hird’s AFL coachingRichmond veteran Chris Newman will retire at the end of this AFL season. The former captain told the club’s playing group on Tuesday of his decision to bow out once …
Continue reading Tiger Newman to retire at AFL season endNOTABLE QUOTES AS JAMES HIRD LEAVES ESSENDON: “Paul said it was the board’s opinion (that) the football club would never be truly free of the ASADA issue while I was …
Continue reading What they said as Hird left EssendonEssendon coach James Hird has fallen on his sword, with chairman Paul Little and the rest of the AFL club’s board holding the blade steady. Hird’s 25-year AFL career ended …
Continue reading Hird leaves Essendon, ending AFL careerWest Coast’s Chris Masten has been suspended two games by the AFL tribunal for biting Fremantle’s Nic Suban. Masten’s ban follows Docker defender Alex Silvagni being outed by the tribunal …
Continue reading AFL tribunal bans Masten for bitingThe AFL has inked the biggest broadcast deal in the history of Australian sport, signing a $2.5 billion broadcast agreement on Tuesday. It trumps the NRL’s latest broadcast deal, prompting …
Continue reading AFL nets record broadcast rights windfallJosh Hazlewood’s hopes of playing the fifth Ashes Test have nosedived. Hazlewood was unable to train on Tuesday due to sore shins. The 24-year-old took part it in a throwing …
Continue reading Hurt Josh Hazlewood in doubt for 5th TestHe was the golden boy as a player who was meant to turn into Essendon’s saviour as a coach. Instead, James Hird will be forever remembered as one of the …
Continue reading No happy ending for golden boy James HirdFremantle’s Alex Silvagni has been banned four games by the AFL tribunal for his behind-play hit on West Coast’s Jamie Cripps. Silvagni told the tribunal he’s embarrassed at striking Cripps …
Continue reading AFL tribunal bans Alex Silvagni four gamesThe AFL has inked the biggest broadcast deal in the history of Australian sport, signing a whopping $2.508 billion broadcast deal on Tuesday. AFL and broadcast executives have agreed on …
Continue reading AFL agrees $2.5bn broadcast dealIn a supreme test for rugby league’s new and controversial shoulder charge laws, three NRL players will fight their bans at the judiciary. For the first time since the governing …
Continue reading Shoulder charge to be tested at judiciaryLosing co-captain Phil Davis for the season has been rated a massive blow by Greater Western Sydney heading into the most significant Sydney AFL derby yet. The 10th-placed Giants are …
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