Football
Four-time Hawthorn premiership coach Alastair Clarkson has confirmed he is not open to coaching Carlton in the 2022 AFL season, leaving a Port Adelaide assistant as the frontrunner for the role.
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Two gold Magarey Medals awarded to a champion Adelaide footballer more than a century ago will go under the hammer when a large private collection of the state’s early football history is auctioned, reports Michelangelo Rucci.
Taylor Walker is increasingly likely to return to the AFL after being suspended for a racist slur. To cast him aside from the game would set back the league’s fight against racial vilification, writes Michelangelo Rucci.
Collingwood has confirmed three-time Brisbane Lions premiership player Craig McRae as the AFL club’s coaching replacement for Nathan Buckley.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan is confident full crowds will return to Victoria at some point next season but recognises high COVID-19 vaccination rates will be crucial for that to happen, after the league relocated the grand final from the MCG for the second year in a row.
While the Crows mop up after another inauspicious season, the Power are on the charge. Our Fumbles correspondent is still looking for a bright side – but he’s running out of ideas.
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Port Adelaide will play its preliminary final against either the Brisbane Lions or Western Bulldogs at Adelaide Oval on September 11.
The Crows are farewelling veteran talent to focus on a youth-led rebuild. It’s an approach the club has used before – on the way to two flags. Can it work again? Michelangelo Rucci reports.
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Crows forward Taylor Walker has broken down reflecting on the “pain and hurt” he caused to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, his club and his own family, as he fronted media for the first time since his suspension for a racist remark.
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SA Health has allowed an extra 5000 people to attend Port Adelaide’s qualifying finals clash with Geelong tomorrow night, lifting Adelaide Oval’s capacity to 20,000.
Adelaide captain Rory Sloane hopes banned forward Taylor Walker collects his leading goalkicker award at a club function this weekend.
There was something quite symbolic about the final game of the final round of the AFL season, in which the Adelaide Football Club farewelled the past and ushered in the future in a spectacle that was sometimes dazzling, sometimes frustrating and at all times of precisely zero interest or relevance to almost everyone else.
Adelaide United’s first three signings for the new season have been announced. Spiro Karanikos-Mimis examines what it means for the Reds.
Football medicos liken understanding the impact of concussion to “walking into a dark room”. Could technology be about to shine a light? Michelangelo Rucci reports.
