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• Shining a light on Aussie Rules footy

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | The spotlight. Whether it’s for the right or wrong reasons, if you’re an AFL player or coach you don’t want it focusing upon you.

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• Sydney Swans on edge for league’s State of Origin: Jack

  

  While debate over whether the AFL should restore interstate fixtures continues over the next month, one club will be cheering State of Origin with unbridled passion.

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• A Giants step for the AFL

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | The AFL plot has thickened beautifully like all Mother’s Day gravies should after Round 7 threw up some very interesting results.

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• Gold Coast Suns on the end of historic first win for GWS Giants

  

  Comparisons between the AFL’s two expansion sides are fraught with danger, but the early signs are Greater Western Sydney have gotten a lot more right.

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• State of Origin back on AFL agenda

  

  Although it’ll be a challenge, the AFL says it will speak with players over their push to revive State of Origin.

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• AFL bird battle cracker

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | It seems the only thing certain this year is that dodgy haircuts are back with a vengeance and club doctors need a wheelbarrow to carry their wages home.

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• Eagles aren’t duckers, says Darren Glass

  

  West Coast captain Darren Glass isn’t losing any sleep over accusations his team are manipulating AFL rules in the tackle, dismissing claims the Eagles are a bunch of duckers.

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• Goodes and O’hAilpin out as AFL casualty list mounts

  

  A horror weekend of casualties continues for AFL clubs with Adam Goodes and Setanta O’hAilpin set for extended rests.

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• Australian AFL Academy team provide lessons to European Titans

  

  In the first ever AFL representative match played on French soil, the Australia Under 18s team overwhelmed the enthusiastic European Titans by 167 points in a great exhibition of exciting football.

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• Aussie Rules gets wet and wild

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | And on the seventh day, God finally got to watch a proper game of Aussie Rules.

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• AFL – the most brutal game in the world?

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | Mums around Australia are currently considering legal advice after some of the most brutal, sickening and downright stupid injuries ever compressed into one weekend of footy. It was like watching one of those American montage videos of people copping horrific pain.

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• Talk about some Aussie Rules upsets!

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | Bob Dylan has been saying for years that ‘the times, they are a changing’. It seems he may well be on the money this time, as Round 3 showed that there may be a changing of the guard.

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• Aussie rookies too good for the European Legion

  

  Australia’s Under 18’s AFL team defeated the European Legion over Easter, in an International AFL match held at Surrey Sports Park just outside London.

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• The topsy-turvy world of AFL

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | Oh, the humanity! AFL Round 2 manifested the grim, hopeless reality for a few sides this week. And an epic brawl!

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• The rollercoaster ride of AFL Round 1

  

  THE AFL RUBDOWN | 2012 Round 1 of the Australian Football League was quite possibly the greatest opening round of anything in the history of modern man.

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• AFL won’t punish players over tweets

  

  Players need to rise above the urge to lash out on Twitter at niggling irritants like Hayden Ballantyne, says AFL chief Andrew Demetriou.

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• Hawks open AFL season with big win over Collingwood

  

  Hawthorn’s AFL season of great expectations opened with a pulsating 22-point win over Collingwood at the MCG on Friday night.

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• Wizards of Aus return to Europe for Easter AFL series

  

  In a repeat of last years tour, the AFL’s future stars from the Australian Institute of Sport will take on a representative European side in the EPG Easter Series on Saturday 7 April.

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• Blues kick season off with AFL win over Tigers

  

  Carlton speedster Chris Yarran produced a controversial goal of the year contender to kill off a Richmond comeback as the Blues put aside a sluggish summer to start their AFL season with a bang on Thursday night.

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• GWS must maintain the belief: Sheedy

  

  Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy suggests confidence will be crucial as his side looks to keep the momentum going after a hard-nosed start to their maiden AFL Season.

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