Essendon youngster Zach Merrett isn’t worried about the team’s fitness, despite club great Matthew Lloyd labelling it “alarming” amid a “blame game” over the Bombers’ horror 2022 season.

Former football player and sacked sports presenter Warren Tredrea is asking the Federal Court to demand Nine Network pay him up to almost $6 million in lost wages.

Geelong great Jimmy Bartel wants player debuts as substitutes banned as the AFL weighs up a potential change to interchange rules.

Fallen AFL star Sam Fisher “hasn’t put a foot wrong” during his time in residential rehabilitation while on bail for alleged drug trafficking, a court has been told.

More findings from Essendon’s external review have been unveiled, declaring the club has “lacked unity” off the field, while players weren’t fit enough on it.

Chris Fagan’s return to the Lions is set to be ratified at a Brisbane board meeting on Tuesday night.

When Collingwood defeated Carlton on the final day of the 2022 home and away season and cruelly denied the Blues a September berth, Olli Hotton didn’t know how to feel.

Delisted Cat Zane Williams has called on the AFL to offer longer-term deals for players snapped up in the Mid-Season Draft, after lasting less than four months at Geelong.

Fremantle star Andrew Brayshaw has offered some hilarious advice to St Kilda players as Ross Lyon looms as the man to take over as head coach.

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Fremantle has no plans to terminate a multimillion-dollar deal with oil and gas giant Woodside despite the Dockers being caught in a growing storm of anti-sponsor movements and a group of high-profile fans urging the club to dump its major sponsor.

West Coast Eagles star Nic Naitanui is lapping up the AFL off-season after he and his partner shared some heartwarming news.

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Ross Lyon is expected to be canvassed as a candidate to replace Brett Ratten – and is prepared to take the Saints’ call – following St Kilda’s shock decision to axe its coach.

The AFL will consider tweaking the rules surrounding the controversial “salary dump” trades as well as the contract lengths for top picks in the national draft.

North Melbourne president Sonja Hood has said there has been “damage for our club and our people” amid historical allegations of racism at Hawthorn involving Alastair Clarkson.

A remarkable AFL trade period got the finish it deserved with almost every big name switching clubs in the final minutes.

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Melbourne will use skipper Max Gawn more as a forward than a ruck, according to Dermott Brereton, after the arrival of ex-Pie Brodie Grundy.

Ollie Henry won’t play for Collingwood in 2023, with the 20-year-old prepared to head to the draft if a deal can’t be struck with Geelong on the final day of the trade period.

A flag contender has been thrown up as a landing spot for an out-of-favour Crow.

A fortnight after winning his first AFL premiership, Geelong defender Mark O’Connor has returned home to Ireland and helped his local Gaelic side Dingle progress in the Kerry Senior Football County Championship.

Geelong has landed a former first-round pick and a six-pick swap should let them add another.

Ollie Henry should get to Geelong in exchange for pick 25 as it’s a fair price according to Fox Footy experts, as the young forward wants to return home and play alongside his brother Jack.

North Melbourne great David King has labelled the AFL’s assistance package to the club “way unders” compared to that of other sides in recent history.

Greater Western Sydney forward Haneen Zreika will miss next weekend’s AFLW match against Hawthorn to avoid wearing the team’s pride jumper on religious grounds.

AFL Trade week will kick off on Monday and it’s expected to be one of the most hectic in recent memory.

Two of Western Sydney’s biggest sporting clubs will meet in the NRL decider on Sunday in what’s been described as the “worst possible outcome” for the GWS Giants.

Essendon is “greatly disappointed” in coaching legend Kevin Sheedy, believing he has “lost touch” with club members after his extraordinary public response to the appointment of new coach Brad Scott.

History was made at Adelaide Oval on Friday night but it wasn’t the entry that goalless Port Adelaide wanted to write into the history books, Chelsea Randall leading the charge as the ruthless Crows smashed their cross-town rivals by 60 points in the inaugural AFLW Showdown.