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Tanner Bruhn (right) leaves the ground with his teammates aftee their win over the Crows.

Tanner Bruhn opens up on his AFL return after a year from hell

The Geelong star was stood down while he faced sexual assault charges last year, which were eventually withdrawn. He’s returned to the field with purpose this season.

  • Peter Ryan

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AFL CEO Andrew Dillon announces the new illicit drugs policy alongside Bulldogs CEO Ameet Bains, Collingwood captain Darcy Moore, AFLPA boss James Gallagher and football operations boss Laura Kane.

Club bosses told when AFL players have serious drug issues – but coaches stay in the dark

Every AFL and AFLW player will be hair tested twice per year and the identity of players with ongoing serious drug issues will be known by the relevant club’s chief executive, president and football boss under the league’s heavily revamped illicit drug policy.

  • Jake Niall
Tom De Koning in his first hitout for St Kilda.

Expecting a free run at a top-10 pick for your club? Not so fast

A proposal to eliminate free agency compensation picks from the first 10 selections of the 2026 AFL national draft is in doubt.

  • Sam McClure, Peter Ryan and Andrew Wu
Bodycam footage of the cherry picker incident in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Bodycam footage shows Hawthorn players arrested on cherry picker

The video, released by the Scottsdale Police Department on Tuesday, shows the AFL players initially claimed they didn’t know the lift wasn’t theirs when police confronted them.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Former Geelong Cats sponsor Sy Giang Nguyen.

Cats sponsor made secret Crown payments for player accommodation

Geelong players received free accommodation at Crown casino from a club sponsor, raising concerns about the scope and rigour of a recent salary-cap investigation by the AFL.

  • Cameron Houston
Hawthorn footballer Dylan Moore was arrested in the US in November.

Hawks president gives update on star players after their US arrest

A police report revealed more details about the arrest of Dylan Moore and teammate Connor Macdonald in the US state of Arizona in November.

  • Lachlan Abbott and Roy Ward
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AFL drug policy detail revealed: Players with serious issues to face extra step

AFL players under treatment for serious illicit drug issues will need to be passed fit to train and play by a new expert panel, under the heavily revised illicit drug code that is being finalised.

  • Jake Niall
Mugshots of Hawthorn footballers Connor Macdonald and Dylan Moore after their arrest in Arizona

Mugshots of Hawks arrested in scissor-lift silliness released by US police

Arizona police have revealed more details of Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald’s boozy night out after the pair’s off-season arrest.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham is calling on the AFL’s illicit drugs policy to be expanded.

Club boss says AFL coaches, commissioners should be drug tested

One of the AFL’s most-respected leaders has called for the league’s new drug policy to be expanded.

  • Andrew Wu, Danny Russell and Jon Pierik
AFL CEO Andrew Dillon.

After 22 years, the AFL’s absurd pretence is over. It’s about time

There will be a cohort of law-and-order types who might view the scrapping of strikes among the changes to the illicit drug policy as the mollycoddling of footballers. But it is overdue and a necessary correction.

  • Jake Niall