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From left: The Western Bulldogs’ Bailey Smith, Essendon’s Jake Stringer, and Geelong’s Jeremy Cameron.

The run home: Which AFL clubs have the hardest and easiest draws?

Champion Data’s formula for figuring out each club’s draw difficulty in the second half of the year makes for good reading for some – but bad for others.

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by Marc McGowan

New Eagle Ryan Maric will fly to Perth on Thursday afternoon.

AFL Briefing

Maric’s path from making pizzas to the big time; Voss ‘clear’ on way forward for struggling Blues

2 hours ago
by Marc McGowan and Roy Ward

Hawthorn president Andy Gowers speaks to the media on Wednesday.

Analysis

The AFL agreement does not mean this Hawthorn saga is over

by Peter Ryan

Pick one: Ryan Maric (left) is headed to West Coast.

Updated

Eagles grab Maric with pick one in mid-season draft

by Marc McGowan

No swift North Melbourne return for Clarkson despite end of AFL inquiry

by Michael Gleeson, Jon Pierik, Jack Latimore and Peter Ryan

Insight & Analysis

There are two games being played at Carlton. Here’s why it’s a problem

The board, like the football department, has to have a clarity of thought and unity of purpose with their analysis and that presently feels painfully absent.

West Coast’s top mid-season pick to have trickle-down effect, why Blues went big on Pittonet

West Coast are keeping other clubs on their toes as mystery surrounds the Eagles’ intentions with pick one in tonight’s mid-season rookie draft. Read the latest draft analysis and see the full draft order.

Marc McGowan

Sports reporter

‘We want to take games off those teams’: In danger of missing finals, Geelong have gone from hunted to hunter

The defending premiers are on the ropes as they sit outside the eight after 11 rounds, but they’re maintaining a positive spin on their situation.

Peter Ryan

Sports reporter

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AFL 2023

The AFL agreement does not mean this Hawthorn saga is over

Although the deal extracted the AFL from the imbroglio, everyone immediately knew, not least of all Hawthorn, that the saga was not over.

by Peter Ryan

Updated

AFL 2023

Families at centre of Hawthorn saga to take claims to human rights commission

Legal counsel acting for the families confirmed the group would pursue a claim against former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt.