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2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Wharfie Time and Fagan’s heroes chime Freo’s doom in one of the greatest grand finals

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2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Never played AFL, too old? If this is Fagan’s farewell, he’s broken the mould

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2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

North Melbourne coaching job decided: Jaymie Graham appointed

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2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

How side deals, mega bucks and a rare breakout of honest and rational negotiating ruled trade period

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2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

From Pullman to pulling power: How Nick Blakey profited from scandal and the AFL’s strange economy

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2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

North board approved mammoth Blakey offer amid police investigation

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2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 We know that the 2026 grand final will be the final time that Lachie Neale takes the field for the Brisbane Lions, a fact established by the AFL appeals tribunal’s astonishing verdict less than 48 hours before the game. assertive

2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Lions’ surge was piloted by their young champion Will Ashcroft and mercurial forwards Charlie Cameron, Zac Bailey and 21-year-old Logan Morris, who put the Lions ahead with 64 seconds left and then confirmed the improbable victory with a right foot snap in the final seconds. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Hawthorn, a beneficiary of the AFL’s expansion, would be the next three-peater under the command of Alastair Clarkson, their super team claiming the 2013, 2014 and 2015 flags against a treble of non-Victorian opponents. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The AFL will consider changes to free agency in the interests of ensuring that the system does not skew the competitive balance of the competition in favour of the teams in premiership contention. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Jaymie Graham will coach North Melbourne in 2027, after winning the race to fill the role vacated by Alastair Clarkson. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Nick Blakey will meet with Geelong as soon as Thursday as he explores a potential move to the Cats amid the rancorous fallout from the Pullman Hotel scandal. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 North, where Nick’s father John won two premierships back in the 1990s, are better positioned than the Suns both in draft capital and salary cap space, but the Suns, should they continue their pursuit, will likely have pick seven from the compensation of losing star forward Ben King to Hawthorn, plus the money saved from King’s exit. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Kangaroos, when contacted by this masthead, declined to comment on how it would handle the trade in light of the police investigation. assertive

2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 At the least, Blakey will be paid an extra $400,000 or more per season over the next five years by dint of his move south to North. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 It might not play out on the ground in 2027, but Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs were the finalists that gained the most ground during a trade period that was marked by an outbreak of honesty and rational negotiations. assertive