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2012 AFL pre-season headlines
Goodes hungry for more success With two Brownlows, two premiership medallions and multiple All Australian honours, there isn’t anything that 12-year Sydney veteran Adam Goodes hasn’t achieved on the AFL paddock, but don’t let that fool you into thinking the 32-year-old has lost an ounce of competitiveness. In fact, Adam says he’s coming into the […]
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Michael O’Loughlin revisits his roots
Throughout his 14 year AFL career, Michael O’Loughlin was a master of preparation. From his training to his diet, analysing an opposition’s strengths and weaknesses and managing injuries, there was no stone left unturned. So when Michael recently travelled to South Australia to trace his family history as part of the SBS series Who Do […]
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When opportunity knocks
In professional football, one man’s loss is usually another man’s gain, which is precisely the case over at West Coast where a season-ending injury to goalsneak Mark Le Cras has opened the door for 23 year-old Josh Hill to stake his claim on a forward spot. Josh, originally from Broome, was drafted by the Bulldogs […]
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NT academy in the works
It’s the home of many of the AFL’s most talented Aboriginal footballers, and yet the Northern Territory remains the only state in Australia to not house an elite training facility. That could soon change, however, with plans underway for a new facility, The Michael Long NT Thunder Learning and Leadership Centre that will focus on […]
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Fighting Fit
If there’s one player in the AFL who deserves to have a good year in 2012, it’s North Melbourne’s Daniel Wells. The talented midfielder endured a horror 2011 after being felled by a sudden illness. While recovering from shoulder surgery at home, Daniel began to feel sharp pains in the chest and lower back, followed […]
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