AFL

AFL Briefing

AFL reveals the start time of this year’s grand final

This year’s grand final will remain in its traditional Saturday afternoon time slot. The AFL Commission has signed off on league chief Andrew Dillon’s recommendation today.

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by Andrew Wu and Jon Pierik

Collingwood Football Club chief executive Craig Kelly.

‘No choice’: Indigenous training group distances itself from Magpies after race saga

by Peter Ryan

AFL round 21 teams and tips: Dusty back for Richmond

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Opinion

The Cats gave Tyson Stengle a chance – it might be the last one he gets

by Kane Cornes

Magpies boss backs Kelly against ‘very serious’ racism claims

by Jon Pierik

Insight & Analysis

The roadblock to All-Australian defender’s potential return to Victoria

The rumblings about Port Adelaide star Dan Houston’s future, and in particular his links to the Demons, started early last month, while a Collingwood forward’s future beyond this season is uncertain.

How Jack Ginnivan is having his cake and eating it too

Jack Ginnivan departed Collingwood with a premiership medal around his neck, leaving behind a club whose finals hopes are in disarray and that is now going through the bleakest period of Craig McRae’s celebrated tenure.

Andrew Wu

Sports Writer

Hotshot Hawks prove they’re prime-time talent, even if Pies are not the scalp they once were

Sam Mitchell’s entertainers are taking football in a different direction. His main challenger for coach-of-the-year honours might be the coach of another team that started the season slowly. Meanwhile, the Bombers are wobbling and the AFL needs to get fair dinkum on the real issues of player safety.