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10/10/2025

Separated At Birth ....

Brisbane Lions star Cam Rayner (left) and Leonard Hofstadter, the character played by Johnny Galecki (right) in The Big Bang Theory, haven’t always had a smooth go of things. But Rayner has bounced back strongly from an ACL tear to be one of the Lions’ best in recent years, and Hofstadter ended up with Penny, his dream girl

10/10/2025

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"A good trade, like justice, not only needs to be good, it needs to be seen to be good. Finding a deal to please the list manager is one thing – finding one to mollify the members is another. This is more acutely so when the player involved is someone fans can’t comprehend the club allowing to leave."

OPINION from Michael Gleeson

It’s hard to sell the fans on the idea you have squeezed the best deal possible, and exhausted all options, if you’ve knocked over a trade with a week still to go.

10/10/2025

Bailey Smith’s social media activity is causing some concern at Geelong, with chief executive Steve Hocking admitting they will look at the star’s headline-grabbing posts.

10/10/2025

Zach Merrett trade will only happen if Bombers board says so. Story via Jake Niall.

If the Hawks make a serious play for the Zach Merrett, their offer will need to be so compelling that it convinces new Essendon president Andrew Welsh and his board to offload their want-away skipper.

09/10/2025

EXCLUSIVE | The Magpies have turned their focus to the captain of the rebuilding Roos, while Charlie Curnow’s chances of being traded have been given a serious boost...

The Magpies have turned their focus to the captain of the rebuilding Roos, while Charlie Curnow’s chances of being traded have been given a serious boost.

09/10/2025

Charlie Curnow’s chances of being traded have been given a serious boost after Geelong created a potential bidding war with Sydney...

Charlie Curnow’s chances of being traded have been given a serious boost after Geelong created a potential bidding war with Sydney.

09/10/2025

Geelong look at ‘tailoring’ Bailey’s Smith social media posts.

Bailey Smith’s social media activity is causing some concern at Geelong, with chief executive Steve Hocking admitting they will look at the star’s headline-grabbing posts.

08/10/2025

It's day four of the AFL trade period and plenty of big names remain up in the air. But a young Gold Coast Suns star being heavily chased by Victorian clubs has posted a cryptic social media message.

Follow all the action from day four of this year’s AFL trade period, with all the news as it happens and the best analysis in the business.

08/10/2025

BREAKING: Troubled Western Bulldogs star Jamarra Ugle-Hagan is set to rejuvenate his AFL career at the Gold Coast Suns, with the player and senior club officials meeting at the club on Thursday morning as he takes another step towards football redemption.

The player and senior Suns officials are meeting at the club on Thursday morning as he takes another step towards football redemption.

08/10/2025

The Giants are the clear frontrunners ahead of Collingwood, in part because of Oliver’s initial interest in a move north – away from Victoria...

The Giants are the clear frontrunners ahead of Collingwood, in part because of Oliver’s initial interest in a move north – away from Victoria.

08/10/2025

Can Sydney come up with a package that satisfies the Blues enough to trade a dual Coleman medallist they don’t want to lose?

08/10/2025

Former Collingwood Football Club player Shannon Cox has been jailed for more than a decade over a head-on crash he caused while coming down off m**h that killed two elderly women in country Western Australia.

Shannon Cox appeared in Western Australia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, charged with manslaughter following the deaths of Thelma Clausen and Coral Seinor last year.