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The 2025 Extra Time AFL Finals Form Guide
After a long 2025 AFL season, the Finals are upon us, and so is the annual Extra Time AFL Finals Form Guide. Â Each member of the Extra...

Staff Writers
Sep 38 min read
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The Best 5 Coaching Candidates For the Melbourne Demons Job
After parting ways with longtime senior coach Simon Goodwin, the Melbourne Demons now face a defining moment. With a talented list still...

Staff Writers
Aug 54 min read
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"Brodie Grundy Has Cemented An All Australian Blazer": 9 Lessons From Round 21
Doggies Talls Pivotal Going Forward If the resurgence of the Western Bulldogs form in the last fortnight has proved anything, it is that...

Staff Writers
Aug 55 min read
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"Nasiah Enters The Best Player Of The League Discussion": 9 Lessons From Round 20
Sam Docherty Is A Champion of The Game After 184 games, Sam Docherty has officially hung up the boots following an emotional farewell on...

Staff Writers
Jul 294 min read
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"The Ashcrofts Are Powering Brisbane’s Premiership Repeat": 9 Lessons From Round 19
The Bombers’ Loss is GWS’ September Weapon There’s no doubt — since leaving the Bombers for Greater Western Sydney, Jake Stringer had...

Staff Writers
Jul 235 min read
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"This Duo Might Carry the Suns to Finals": 9 Lessons From Round 18
Brisbane’s Engine Room Is Built Different Round 18 kicked off with one of the most one-sided games of the round, thanks to Brisbane’s...

Staff Writers
Jul 164 min read
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"His Signature Might Be The Most Important Thing In Football": 9 Lessons From Round 17
1. The Deadliest Forward Line in Footy? Naughton & Darcy Set the Tone for a September Storm The Western Bulldogs have one of the most...

Staff Writers
Jul 94 min read
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What 16 Rounds Of Footy Tells Us About Who’s Going To Be Premiers
The modern-day AFL media world loves analysis and loves a prediction. Footy is a game built on many moving parts, thousands of well...

Dylan Padget
Jul 43 min read
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"Nick Daicos Is Simply Unstoppable": 7 Lessons From Round 16
Carlton Are Done. Another disappointing loss for the Blues this round, going down by 50 points against a middle of the pack Port...

Staff Writers
Jul 23 min read
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Crossroads ahead for St Kilda in quest for success
Round 16 brings another chapter of the nightmare that the 2025 AFL Season has been for the St Kilda Football Club . The Saints sit...

Jasper Cormick
Jun 284 min read
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Ginnivan v Smith — the AFL, and the media, got it wrong
In the ever-scrutinised world of Australian Rules Football (AFL), media narratives can shape public perception just as much as the...

Simone Wearne
Jun 123 min read
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Bailey Smith, social media and the AFL's drug dilemma: a wake-up call for Australian sport
Bailey Smith's comments have been casually referred to as banter at a time when society must be taking more notice of the impacts of drugs on young Australians. The AFL and AFLPA must make a stand.

Simone Wearne
May 313 min read
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The simple solution to AFL's umpiring problem | THE VOLCANZO
Before Gather Round , the umpires were actually doing alright, but ever since Ollie Dempsey was awarded that mark, it all seems to have...

Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes
May 193 min read
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Since when was a one million dollar a year offer not life-changing?
Since when was a one million dollar a year offer not life-changing? Is Tom De Koning really suggesting that $1.1 million from Carlton won't change his life?

Simone Wearne
May 163 min read
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Fev, Guy Sebastian, and the spirit of local footy: Masala Dandenong set for an unmissable Super Saturday
Saturday, May 10 at Lois Twohig Reserve is shaping up to be the biggest day in Masala Dandenong Football Club’s history and one of the...

Mark Woods
May 54 min read
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Cats v Pies prove why footy is the best game in the land
On a night where Australian’s were considering who might be our new political leader, a sporting league itself rose to the occasion. Some...

Simone Wearne
May 44 min read
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Gold Coast fort stands true again | Round 7 RECAP
Melbourne vs Richmond Mark Woods- Melbourne starting to find their feet this season, Richmond brave effort. Gawn is Good. Lorenzo...

Staff Writers
Apr 302 min read
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Paul Curtis, Josh Sinn and the breakdown of debating moral issues | THE VOLCANZO
In his work After Vitrue , the Scottish-American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre lamented the fact that the modern society has lost the...

Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes
Apr 303 min read
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Richmond to pinch it in under two goals, the pressure escalates on Goodwin | Round 7 PREVIEW
Each week our team look ahead at the AFL games and give their initial thoughts. Melbourne vs Richmond Mark Woods- Either team can win...

Staff Writers
Apr 243 min read
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All Richmond Had To Do With Noah Balta Is Wait One Week | THE VOLCANZO
A few weeks ago I said there is almost nothing that a player can do on the footy field, that won't be defended by footy fans for the sole...

Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes
Apr 233 min read
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