Stawell Gift men’s winner Olufemi Komolafe stripped of title

🔮 The Saints have not nominated a player they would like to pair with the pick for Marshall, having earlier made a failed bid for Lawson Humphries.

🔮 Melbourne veteran Jack Viney will fly to Perth on Tuesday to tour West Coast’s facilities as he plots a move away from the Demons.

🔮 There will be Fremantle fans – and players – who in years to come will hear the first bars of Hells Bells at a party, or walking the aisles of Bunnings, and they will be like the punch drunk boxer who hears a tram’s bell ring and starts shadowboxing.

🔮 The most commonly uttered words in football this week related to Lachie Neale, which is quite a feat given Hawthorn, abuse and umpires would top any Google News search.

🔮 The AFL will confirm the suitable free agency compensation to be received during the trade and free agency period in October.”

🔮 For a man who demanded attention whenever he set foot on the track, it was an irony that his biggest performances were in front of the smallest crowds. “I really wanted to go out on a high note, and after winning the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the relay, it was only going to go downhill from there,” Browning said. Rohan Browning career highlights - Commonwealth Games champion (Men’s 4x100m – 2026) - Four-time Australian champion (100m – 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025) - Two-time Olympian (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) - Olympic semi-finalist in Tokyo when he ran 10.01-second 100m personal best - 9.41-second Australian 100 yards record (Sydney 2021) “The athlete in me still thinks that I could get back, run personal bests and compete at the highest level, but no athlete is ever going to be truly satisfied.

🔮 Hawthorn is hoping the Suns do not match the contract terms they have offered to the restricted free agent and in so doing would accept the free agency compensation pick for losing him; a pick which currently stands to be selection seven in the national draft.

🔮 Neale might be glad of that given his very public personal matters this year.

🔮 Maybe that is just the enjoyment of watching an underdog win.

🔮 Had they won, Carlton fans might argue their story is better.