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Bulldog Cody Weightman won’t play a game in 2025. Pic: Michael Klein

Injured Bulldog’s season over, club eyes mid-season pick

The Western Bulldogs have opened up a spot on their list just before the mid-season draft, but it came at a cost to another star.

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Tasmania's new stadium is now slated to cost $945 million, well up from previous estimates. (HANDOUT/TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT)

Proposed Hobart stadium cost blows out to near $1 billion

Fast-track plans for a new waterfront stadium attached to a state's AFL dream have revealed the venue will likely cost an extra $170 million.

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Collingwood are preparing to welcome back premiership favourite Scott Pendlebury. (Scott Barbour/AAP PHOTOS)

Selection squeeze at Collingwood as stars set to return

Sitting atop the AFL ladder, Collingwood will regain up to five stars for their upcoming blockbuster match against Hawthorn at the MCG.

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Carlton coach Michael Voss is battling to get his side back into the finals race.

Michael Voss sacking ‘on the table’ as past comes back to haunt

A league-altering decision ‘doesn’t augur well’ for the coach, but a different ‘left-field’ move could be the solution.

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Chris Scott, Bailey Smith, Jeremy Cameron

AFL set to hand down punishment to Geelong after money audit

The league has turned up a ‘major lodgement issue' involving one senior player.

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Liam Baker has been fined.

Eagles defender learns fate for ugly Peatling incident

West Coast recruit Liam Baker has learnt his fate over an ugly forearm to the back of Adelaide midfielder James Peatling’s head on Sunday. 

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Alex Pearce chatting with Freo footy boss Joe Brierty on Monday.

Freo to challenge Pearce ban as Rioli precedent looms large

Alex Pearce has booked a date with the AFL Tribunal, with Fremantle to challenge his three-match suspension. Here are the details - and how a Willie Rioli precedent could be the key to winning the case.

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Cooper Simpson copped an early injury against the Power.

Cooper’s cruel blow: Simpson set for shoulder surgery

Fremantle young guy Cooper Simpson will have surgery on his injured AC joint and miss the next 10 weeks in a savage blow to his burgeoning career.

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‘Offensive’: Suns boss lashes ‘nepo baby’ sledge

A pre-game comment from St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has ignited a fire and the Gold Coast Suns are coming after him hard.

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Damien Hardwick wasn’t pleased with Ross Lyon’s shot at Gold Coast.

‘AFL’s nepo baby’ returns serve over rival’s ‘disrespectful’ remark

The veteran coach has sent a brutal shot back at his counterpart, calling out one damning number.

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The Eagles were torched by the Crows.

Waterman injured as Crows third-term ambush torches Eagles

A shoulder injury to star forward Jake Waterman has rubbed salt into Waalitj Marawar’s (West Coast’s) wounds in a heavy 66-point defeat to Kuwarna (Adelaide) at Adelaide Oval.

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Dockers captain Alex Pearce will face MRO scrutiny.

No case to answer! Longmuir’s staunch defence of Alex Pearce

The Dockers will be waiting to see what the AFL Match Review Officer thinks of Alex Pearce’s collision with Darcy Byrne-Jones but coach Justin Longmuir is supremely confident his captain did nothing wrong.

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Murphy Reid celebrates.

In the wet, it rains goals for Freo in big win

On a rare wet night in Perth, the Dockers have shown off their dramatic improvement to blow the Power away in a dominant display as Luke Jackson, Caleb Serong and Murphy Reid starred.

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Darcy Byrne-Jones was subbed out after this hit from Alex Pearce.

WATCH: Freo skipper to face Match Review scrutiny for bump

Alex Pearce is set to come under Match Review scrutiny following a significant collision with Darcy Byrne-Jones that left the Power forward dazed.

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