Five AFL assistant coaches are living away from their families to pursue their careers,and one big factor is the prohibitive cost of the housing market.
AFLW general manager Emma Moore will report to the game’s football boss,Laura Kane. Both say they would not be expanding the AFLW season further until TV and match-day audiences justify it.
Paul Marsh is reluctantly taking a three-month sabbatical. “It wasn’t a negotiation,it was an ultimatum,” says AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield.
As star Melbourne midfielder continues his cautious behavioural rehabilitation,his club is also trying to overcome six months of on- and off-field horrors
One of dozens of senior coaches and football bosses to have their judgment blinkered by blood ties,Denis Pagan coached his own son at AFL level. He believes Anthony Stevens has done the right thing by stepping away from the Kangaroos board.
As the competition has expanded to include a national women’s league and soon 19 teams,veteran club bosses have lamented the dearth of emerging off-field leaders across the competition.
Neil Balme,a key part of Richmond’s return to AFL prominence,talks about the “briefly awkward” discussion that made it clear this would be his last year at the club.
For too long the competition’s governors have been sticking Band-Aids on Alastair Clarkson’s behavioural problems,only for the troubled coach to rip them off again.
Hawthorn are facing a significant financial settlement with Alastair Clarkson,while he and his former football boss Chris Fagan also want public apologies from the club over the impact of the cultural safety review on their professional and private lives.
As second comings go,the Craig Kelly-Graham Wright double act at Collingwood deserves a starring storyline should the Magpies win the 2023 flag.
An uneasy relationship between the AFLPA and AFLW players had to be resolved to level the playing field for the women’s competition.