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If investment in the BBL simply leads to bigger contracts, overseas players and commercialisation, then Australian cricket risks losing sight of what has made it successful, writes Mitchell Johnson.

West Coast fans left Optus Stadium disappointed with a heart-stopping six-point defeat to an embattled Port Adelaide they expected to beat on Saturday night.

North Melbourne took an extraordinary step to bunker down after their record-breaking loss to Freo, with players sent into lockdown from media following a result that Alastair Clarkson said carried “shame”. 

Fremantle have put on an absolute clinic in Bunbury to humiliate North Melbourne and shatter even more clubs records as they continue their incredible run of form.

‘Why are they complicating it?’

‘I started reading it and I started crying.’

Michael Sellwood ‘wasn’t happy’ with what he heard from the heckler, who ‘cowered pretty quickly’.

Gold Coast Suns gun midfielder Touk Miller has moved on since splitting from his wife, after the star AFL player appeared to hard launch with a Melbourne-based fitness influencer and Only Fans creator.

‘Now we play the waiting game.’

North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson has failed to hold back his laughter while addressing first-year player Lachy Dovaston’s bizarre egging investigation on Friday.

The midfielder’s initial reaction sparked a question about just what he knows, and a telling answer emerged.

Benji Marshall has backed his players to speak their mind after star Terrell May declared his loyalty lies solely with the coach and not with the club.

The Geelong coach has called the matter an ‘oversight’ and says something has to be done.

The grieving skipper says he is finding his ‘happiness again’ on the football field.

‘We spend all this money .... and we still don’t get it right.’