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AFL round 21 teams and tips: Dusty back for Richmond
See the selected teams as they’re announced for AFL round 21 and check out what the expert tipsters think.
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AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
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.
- by Andrew Wu and Jon Pierik
‘Everyone can feel it’: Dees face now-or-never moment against in-form Bulldogs
Two losses on the trot - including last week’s heartbreaking two-point defeat to GWS - have left Melbourne’s finals hopes hanging by a thread.
- by Justin Chadwick
Analysis
AFL 2024
The race for the AFL top eight is looking for a premiership hero
The Western Bulldogs have injected a sense of energy into the finals contest which still has 12 teams jostling for position. Will your team make it?
- by Katie Bice
Analysis
AFL 2024
Bombers blowing up, Dogs are hot while Carlton are cold
It was a round of snakes and ladders as some teams that made early running, battle to stay in contention.
- by Katie Bice
Blistering Bulldogs prove they are a finals force to be reckoned with
The Western Bulldogs stormed into the top eight for the first time since round six after stunning the Swans with a four-goal blitz from Jamarra Ugle-Hagan.
- by Joanna Guelas
Collingwood in danger of proving the dream of back-to-back flags can turn ugly
A season after enjoying the ultimate success, the Magpies are now battling to make the top eight, joining a list of clubs who have endured a rocky road after a premiership.
- by Jon Pierik
Injury-hit Swans brace for AFL finals hopefuls Bulldogs
Injury-hit Sydney are confident they have the depth to overcome a late-season lull and dent the Western Bulldogs’ top-eight hopes in the process.
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
De Koning out for home-and-away season; Swans dealt a bitter blow; clubs sent a ‘please explain’
Carlton’s tough win over North Melbourne has come at a cost, with a fractured foot to sideline star ruckman Tom De Koning until the end of the home-and-away season. Meanwhile, the Swans are battling their own injury issues.
- by Peter Ryan, Marnie Vinall and Malcolm Conn
More top eight intrigue as Dogs win in the mud; Magpies ‘right on the edge’ of being ‘losers’
On an uber-soggy day in Melbourne, Hawthorn had a landmark win over reigning premiers Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs dumped Geelong in the mud. In the early game St Kilda beat up on lowly West Coast.
- by Roy Ward, Jon Pierik, Andrew Wu, Danny Russell and Steve Barrett
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
How Essendon could benefit from the rule that gave Jamarra to the Dogs; three-match bans stand for Cameron, Bedford
Charlie Cameron and Toby Bedford have both failed in their bids to overturn three-match bans for rough conduct, while Essendon could benefit from a rule tweak come draft time.
- by Jake Niall and Peter Ryan