While there’s still one round of pre-season hit-outs to come, many AFL players pushed their cases for selection early in 2024 across match simulation week.

The season hasn’t even begun, but a landmark test case looms before the AFL and Match Review Officer.

Kane Cornes has voiced fears for the future of St Kilda after Ross Lyon was this week credited for pulling off a “coup”.

Tipped by many as a 2024 bolter, Adelaide has copped two blows before the calendar flips to February.

A 109-year old shed that was looming as a major stumbling block in Tasmania’s plans to build a new stadium at Hobart’s Macquarie Point for a 19th club is unlikely to stand in the AFL’s way.

Kane Cornes has blasted the AFL’s decision to withhold player weights from the official 2024 season guide, declaring “the world has gone so soft”.

The Punjab Kings say “confusion” around their bizarre moment of mistaken identity with Shashank Singh during the IPL auction was because two players had the same name, clarifying that Shashank was “always on our target list.”

Recently retired AFL stars Joel Selwood and Erin Phillips have been added to the league’s football department amid sweeping changes which include a move for umpires to report to a new boss in 2024.

A couple of injury scares have marred pre-season training for West Coast and Richmond.

Former NFL punter Arryn Siposs has opened up on the brutal nature of his axing by the Philadelphia Eagles in “one of the shortest meetings” he’s ever had.