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State funeral for Barassi as AFL weighs up renaming cup

Calls are growing for the AFL to rename the premiership cup after football legend Ron Barassi, who will be farewelled at a state funeral.

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McLachlan lauds 'compelling' AFL grand final narratives

Outgoing AFL boss Gillon McLachlan believes the stage is perfectly set for next week's grand final, with four remaining teams each offering a different story.

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Brisbane hero Voss plots Lions' Gabba demise as a Blue

Michael Voss returns to his field of glory, the Gabba, plotting the downfall of his old club Brisbane as 'a Carlton person' in Saturday's AFL preliminary final.

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Davis says Giants have elevated the worst of their game

Retiring GWS great Phil Davis says he thought the Giants would need longer to develop than their impressive surge this season into a preliminary final.

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Riccardi nails Giant moment with last-quarter goal

As Port Adelaide sprayed their shots in the last quarter of Saturday night's semi-final loss, GWS forward Jake Riccardi seized his moment.

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GWS Giants take newfound swagger into AFL showdown with Collingwood

Earlier this season, the Giants were a bottom-four team but they have gradually found their groove to move with a win of the grand final

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Ron Barassi: pioneering player and formidable coach who embodied Australian rules football

Few have dominated and defined their sport the way Barassi did – he changed the game forever and leaves an incalculable legacy

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Ron Barassi, AFL great, dies aged 87

One of the sport’s most loved and influential figures has died peacefully and ‘surrounded by loving family’

The Guardian - AU

Singing the Blues: Robbie Williams’s musical tribute to Carlton player after AFL win

‘De Koning’s in the air, everywhere I look around,’ Williams sang to tune of Love Is In The Air

The Guardian - AU

Racism class action launched against AFL by former footballers

Phil Krakouer and at least six others claim the league failed to protect them from racial vilification

The Guardian - AU

Wasteful Melbourne still learning the hard way as Carlton party like it’s 1999

The Demons will wonder how they lost after dominating in the air and on the ground, and then allowing the Blues in at the death

The Guardian - AU

History, passion and Lygon Street: Carlton supporters look past former glories to find new hope

The fortunes of the football club and community have long been enmeshed. The question being asked is: will the team bring success to both?

The Guardian - AU

Collingwood defender Brayden Maynard cleared to play in preliminary final

Collingwood defender is now free to play against winner of GWS and Port Adelaide

The Guardian - AU

Concussion an issue AFL can’t afford to smother

The tribunal hearing into Brayden Maynard’s role in the concussion of Angus Brayshaw will test the AFL on the ‘duty of care’ it owes to its players

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Carlton explode out of blocks to run Swans ragged on night of perfect pandemonium

The Blues’ 11.8 (74) to 9.14 (68) elimination final win at the MCG helped expunge memories of the past decade

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Collingwood hang on to beat wasteful Melbourne and book preliminary final

Speedy Pies win 9.6 (60) to 7.11 (53) over Demons, while coaches agree to disagree over Brayshaw collision

The Guardian - AU

Controversial new Tasmanian AFL stadium could add $226m a year to economy, report finds

But a parliamentary committee says there has been no evidence to bolster the key assumptions underpinning the business case

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Victorian AFL clubs raked in $40m from poker machines last financial year

Carlton, Essendon, Richmond and St Kilda continue to profit from pokies, drawing criticism from fans and gambling reform advocates

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The Guardian - AU

Sense of sporting belonging sustains long-suffering and new Carlton fans alike

The social connection that comes from AFL fandom can help demonstrate the value of sport beyond participation

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Laura Kane’s rapid AFL rise heralds changing times for women in sport

Not a total upheaval of the status quo, but enough of a shakeup to remind people women are here to stay, on and off the field

Newcastle Herald

Bucket man pitch invader jailed for A-League incursion

It was described as the 'darkest day' for Australian football.

The Guardian - AU

Baffling Western Bulldogs win, wait and stew, but are finally sent packing

Luke Beveridge’s side were lopsided, occasionally astonishing and frequently bewildering – and now rue another lost year

The Guardian - AU

Still room for surprise despite AFL foiling its plan for fairy tale final round

Goal review debacle and shock results killed off some suspense but last weekend’s upheaval shows nothing is certain in football

The Guardian - AU

Every post a loser as AFL duds fans with pointless score review system

When the AFL can negotiate a billion dollar TV deal but can’t tell us whether a goal is a goal, fans get dudded and players ask: what’s the point?

The Guardian - AU

Hot Cripps blazing a Blues streak for Carlton to play AFL finals football

Only the ‘hairy hand of God’ can stop Carlton riding this winter wave of hot form all the way to finals

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