Roos kicks up a storm over draft 'lottery'

Sydney coach Paul Roos has criticised the AFL draft process, saying players are too young when they're selected and labelling it a "ridiculous" system.

The gems among the discards

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Nor is recycling - in a football sense, at least.

New sponsor, and financial 'hit', for Saints

St Kilda has good news and bad to announce in coming weeks: a new major sponsor but a loss of as much as $300,000 on the season.

Pies launch bid for coast deal

COLLINGWOOD has launched a radical plan to become the AFL's team on the Gold Coast with a proposal to play up to six games at Carrara as early as next season.

Saints go marching off to Frankston

The decision by St Kilda Football Club to relocate its training centre to Frankston hailed as an enormous coup for a town that has been unfairly maligned.

Nielsen tries to improve team image

WINNING was not the only thing on Tim Nielsen's mind when he became coach of Australia. He was also acutely conscious of the team's image, and wanted his players to be conscious of it, too.

$10m bolsters Roos rescue

FIVE "white knights" have pledged loans of $2 million each to enable the Kangaroos to stay in Melbourne as part of the plan released yesterday to keep the club from relocating to the Gold Coast.

G-Train faces winding track to get back in the sheds

FRASER Gehrig spent the last years of his career doubting the wisdom of continuing to play. Having made the decision not to only three months ago, he has surprisingly discovered that he must.

AFL Commission drafts Family Court judge

AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick yesterday denied that the game's horrific off-field problems in 2007 had prompted yesterday's appointment of Family Court judge Linda Dessau as the game's second woman commissioner.

Roos ask for an extra year

The Kangaroos have attempted to put off their historic relocation decision for 12 months, with acting chairman John Magowan yesterday asking the AFL Commission and its clubs to approve a one-year deadline extension for the club to build a survival plan in Melbourne.

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