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Trade timeCommentsPremiumSinging the blues! Cerra’s trade decision made

While Adam Cerra flirted with the idea of joining the Grand Final Demons, Melbourne’s inability to get the trade done with Dockers was always going to be a deal-breaker.

Jon Ralph, Glenn McFarlane and Jay Clark

AFLClarkson names team he would coach

Tasmania doesn’t have an AFL team and won’t for at least five years, but a huge name has put his hand up to coach if a license is granted.

 

PIES CARETAKER PremiumHawks add Harvey to Mitchell’s coaching panel

The elite team Hawthorn is building around new coach Sam Mitchell just got stronger, with departing Collingwood interim coach Robert Harvey joining the club.

Jon Ralph, Jay Clark, Michael Warner and Glenn McFarlane.

New age PremiumAttack and flair: New Hawks incoming under Mitchell

Expect Hawthorn to play with more attacking flair under incoming coach Sam Mitchell according to midfielder Jaeger O’Meara.

Eliza Reilly

New roleAxed Blues coach off to work for Hardwick

Sacked Carlton coach David Teague didn’t stay unemployed for long, joining rival AFL club Richmond as an assistant coach.

With AAP

AFLHawthorn names best and fairest for 2021

It was hardly a season to remember for the Hawks but that didn’t stop one star midfielder from having a fantastic year in the brown and gold.

Jasper Bruce

Back to VictoriaCommentsFreo’s forward coach is out the door

David Hale’s time at the Dockers is over, with the Fremantle assistant signing a new deal with a Victorian club.

Catherine Healey

AFLAFL premiership hero calls time

Multiple premiership-winner Grant Birchall has retired from AFL football after a decorated 287-game career.

Marco Monteverde

Done deal!Schultz snubs Hawks homecoming to stay at Freo

Lachie Schultz had the chance to head home to Victoria and take up a deal with Hawthorn. Instead, he’s put pen to paper at Fremantle, signing for two more years.

Catherine Healey

No dealCommentsPremiumBlues’ Blue: Clarko’s still keen to sit out 2022 season

Carlton refuses to give up in its attempts to get Alastair Clarkson to change his mind and coach the club next year. But the master coach is adamant it won’t be happening.

Michael Warner

Your SayBrownlow Predictor: Star clear leader in award race

The 2021 Brownlow Medal is touted as the closest race in recent history, though one star might make a mockery of those predictions.

Chris Cavanagh

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The West Australian exclusive
Wanted manCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Hawks up the ante in Lachie Schultz pursuit

Pressure forward Lachie Schultz enjoyed a career-best season at the Dockers, playing 20 of a possible 22 games and booting 22 goals.

Jordan McArdle

ThrillerIt’s a DRAW! Bizarre end for Clarko, Burgoyne

Hawthorn couldn’t give Alastair Clarkson and Shaun Burgoyne the perfect send-off, with a ball evading the latter’s fingertips on the goal line in the dying seconds to set up the strange ending.

Chris Robinson

opinion
opinion
Champion TrioPremium
opinion
Three legacies that are too good to lose

Three of the most brilliant, entertaining, soulful AFL players in the modern era are about to leave, with premierships, highlights, medals and memories piled up. The AFL industry needs to ensure they use their influence.

Ryan Daniels

Finals on the linePremiumLive ladder: Where will your club finish?

The ladder is far from settled with a number of games threatening to change the finals race — and impact draft picks. Here’s all you need to know in one place.

Chris Cavanagh and Matt Turner

analysis
analysis
Even rivals agreePremium
analysis
Why Clarko is the undisputed king of the coaches

You have to go back to 2012 and John Longmire’s Swans to find a premiership which doesn’t have Alastair Clarkson’s imprint either on the team or its coach, writes Mark Duffield.

Mark Duffield

Mark Duffield PremiumDuff’s Dozen: Clarko gets Jeffing good win of his own

After Jeff Kennett and his Hawthorn board Jeffed his four time Premiership coach, the little master Clarkson has done a bit of Jeffing of his own. Here are the big talking points from round 22.

Mark Duffield

Fixture changeVideoHawks, Pies kicked out of Tassie after COVID case

The AFL has been forced to move Hawthorn and Collingwood’s clash in Tasmania on Sunday after the first COVID-19 case in over a year was recorded in the State.

Samantha Rogers

Draft therapy PremiumMark Duffield: Hawks make a mess of Clarko exit

The succession plan has become more of a dud messy plan as Hawthorn trash their own credibility.

Mark Duffield

Messy split Why Collingwood need to land Clarkson for 2022: Lyon

Former AFL coach Ross Lyon says Collingwood ‘need’ to land Alastair Clarkson, after the four-time Hawthorn premiership coach announced his departure from the Hawks at the end of 2021. 

Samantha Rogers

ExclusivePremiumClarkson’s soft cap payout deal revealed

New details has emerged about Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson’s payout after he quit the AFL club.

Stephen Drill

End of an eraCONFIRMED: Clarko era ends at Hawthorn

Legendary Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson has confirmed that he will step away from the club at the end of the year, prior to the Hawks’ original succession plan for Clarkson to guide incoming coach Sam Mitchell until the end of 2022.

Staff writers

Bomb droppedHawks BOMBSHELL as Clarko departs early: Reports

Hawthorn premiership mastermind Alastair Clarkson’s time is up. According to a bombshell report this morning, the four-time flag-winning coach has agreed to part ways earlier than first planned.

Staff writers

WA gunChampion Hawk’s huge praise for Swans AFL product

Former Hawthorn premiership player Xavier Ellis believes Hawks youngster and Swan Districts product Denver Grainger-Barras is the number one young AFL talent to build a club around.

Josh Garlepp