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AFL 2024
The run home: Where the contenders stand in the race for the AFL top eight
While the Swans appear to have top spot locked up, the race for the top eight is well and truly on as we head into the home stretch of the AFL season. Where will your team finish?
- by Jon Pierik
Insight & Analysis
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.
Peter Ryan
Sports reporter
Could this be the night the Dons blew their finals hopes?
For the second year in a row, a finals flame that burned so brightly for much of the season is threatening to be extinguished.
Andrew Wu
Sports Writer
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Swans searching for answers to cover injured Papley’s goal kicking
Swans coach John Longmire admits there are no easy solutions to covering the loss of injured Tom Papley’s impact around goal.
- by Malcolm Conn
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 finals intrigue as Dogs win in the mud; Collingwood ‘right on the edge’ of being ‘losers’
- by Roy Ward, Jon Pierik, Andrew Wu, Danny Russell and Steve Barrett
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Match review
AFL insists tackles were dangerous after appeals board overturns player bans
- by Jon Pierik and Danny Russell