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3 days ago | 
smh.com.au | Jon Pierik |Jake Niall |Marc McGowan |Angus Delaney
By Jake NiallCalsher Dear isn’t a footballer with the bullocking style of his father Paul, whose AFL career finished nearly nine years before Calsher was born and who died almost two years before his youngest son debuted for Hawthorn. Nor does Calsher, a lithe 195-centimetre leaping athlete, own what he termed his father’s “tree trunk” legs and powerful physique. “Yeah, it’s quite funny.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Marc McGowan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Daria Kasatkina’s shock switch of allegiances to Australia gained momentum in a secret catch-up with Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley at this year’s Australian Open.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Marc McGowan
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Marc McGowan
Opinion April 3, 2025 — 4.57pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. LoadingThe outrage machine is out of control this week, even by the AFL bubble’s hysterical standards. The reaction to West Coast co-captain, and impending free agent, Oscar Allen’s in-season meeting with Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell and his wife Lyndall in Perth has bordered on embarrassing.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Peter Ryan |Marc McGowan
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Peter Ryan |Marc McGowan
By Peter Ryan and Marc McGowan April 2, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Money TalksCredit: The AgeWhen an out-of-contract captain is meeting with an opposition coach trying to lure him to his club and it’s only round three, you know the AFL’s player movement market has officially entered a different realm.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Marc McGowan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Melbourne’s winless start to a season they hoped would deliver redemption is laid bare in the Demons’ first-to-last nosedive in a key midfield metric. Simon Goodwin’s team recorded the second-best contested possession differential ever in 2018 before pacing the AFL in that statistic during their stampede to a drought-busting premiership three years later.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Marc McGowan
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Marc McGowan
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Marc McGowan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We are witnessing a generational takeover. Nick Daicos’ rapid ascension into the conversation as the AFL’s best player, alongside relative veterans Marcus Bontempelli, Patrick Cripps and Christian Petracca, has thrust the game’s present and future to the forefront.
