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[ad_1] External expectations are wide-ranging for the Western Bulldogs entering 2024, following a bitterly disappointing end to last season. Despite entering last year stacked with talent and winning seven of their first 10 outings, the Dogs couldn’t cultivate a winning formula at the business end of the season. In particular, the Bulldogs’ losses to cellar-dwellers … Read more
[ad_1] Superstar midfielder Clayton Oliver will represent Melbourne on Sunday – but likely not with his senior AFL teammates. Oliver instead is set to be eased into the Demons’ match simulation against Richmond at Casey Fields, expected to feature in the final three periods of the seven-period hit-out, which is when the two clubs’ younger … Read more
[ad_1] We get our first taste of competitive AFL footy this weekend as match simulation week begins. While there’s only so much we can take away from match simulation — and you wouldn’t expect clubs to fully show their hands — we’ll still learn plenty after a long off-season. Below foxfooty.com.au has listed every club’s … Read more
[ad_1] We’re just weeks away from Opening Round and the 2024 AFL home and away season. A host of clubs will line up vastly different after busy off-seasons, while plenty of fresh faces should also be unearthed. Foxfooty.com.au predicts every club’s 23-man squad for its first game of the season, taking into account injuries and … Read more
[ad_1] Each year, there’s always one player at each club who takes the next step in their career. Be it raw talents who have yet to fully reach their potential or guns in waiting who haven’t been given opportunity in the senior side, there are reasons for hope for some of the game’s brightest prospects. … Read more
[ad_1] A serious bugbear of AFL coaches has been addressed, with the substitute rule among changes for 2024, which includes a crackdown on overzealous smothers like the one that resulted in Melbourne’s Angus Brayshaw being badly concussed. That bump, in which Collingwood defender Brayden Maynard left the ground to try and smother a kick in … Read more
[ad_1] Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly has defended the decision to allow Nathan Murphy to continue his AFL career despite repeated concussion, saying player welfare is paramount. Murphy was cleared to continue his career by an expert concussion medical panel late last year after suffering his latest concussion in the AFL Grand Final last September. Kelly … Read more
[ad_1] Sydney midfielder Callum Mills has been appointed the club’s stand-alone captain, despite being set to miss a chunk of the upcoming season due to an injury sustained wrestling on Mad Monday. The Swans have recently relied on spreading the load with their captaincy responsibilities, with Mills one of three to hold the position last … Read more
[ad_1] For an eighth consecutive year, it’s time to look back in order to look forward. This is Foxfooty.com.au’s annual Pythagorean wins prediction piece, which reveals the teams who over- and underperformed in the previous season to predict who’ll bounce back or fall flat in the coming year. The name makes it sound complicated, but … Read more