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  • CEOs, cigarettes and superstars: unpacking the hidden world of footy cards

    From the outside, the footy card industry might appear cultish. Thousands of mostly middle-aged men, initially indoctrinated by Aussie rules and now head-over-heels for little rectangles with photos of the game’s players. Really forking out for them too.

  • AFL trade wrap: Cats lose two, gain one in final-hour flurry

    The AFL trade period finished on Wednesday with the usual flurry of action. A lack of overall action in previous days was suspected to be the calm before the storm, but there were doubts over whether the trade downpour would ever arrive.

  • The inside word on the new Essendon AFLW team

    We won’t see an 18-team AFLW for another 16 months, but the excitement at Essendon is already palpable. It was announced last week that Hawthorn, Port Adelaide, Sydney and the Bombers would enter in the 2022-23 season, just under six years after the inaugural eight-team competition.

  • Luckless local club’s controversial finals removal

    Melbourne’s lockdown has left a local footy team’s premiership hopes hanging by a thread. With finals fast approaching and epidemiologists predicting a lockdown extension, Werribee Centrals could be excluded from the Geelong District Football League’s season conclusion.