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2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

The Dockers had one hand on the premiership cup. Then came four minutes that turned the grand final

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2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

AFL trade period LIVE: Day two of trade period, mega-deal could be in the works for Butters, Marshall wants out

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2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

‘Just be careful, they’re on you’: Inside cricket’s greatest scandal

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2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

‘Whatever you paid, it was worth it’: The agony and the ecstasy of the game of the season

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2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Only one of the Serong boys will reach the grand final this year. Their mum is already taking sides

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2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Contending, rebuilding or stuck in limbo: What AFL trade period says about your team’s flag hopes

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2026-08-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Despite Essendon president Andrew Welsh’s insistence that Mark McVeigh’s Bombers heritage had little bearing on his appointment as coach, his unveiling could not have felt more like a homecoming. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Once that initial heartache dulled, it soon became apparent to the third-season midfielder how much tougher this season would become for the Western Bulldogs. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 On Friday night at the SCG, Tania and Jamie Serong and their family will gather in the Fremantle rooms for a presentation in recognition of their son Caleb’s 150th game for the Dockers. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Most importantly, football lovers were given a contest, a nerve-jangler with savage momentum swings that left them guessing until the final seconds as to which team would come back to this venue next Saturday to take on minor premiers Fremantle to lift the cup. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Swans have opted against scrubbing any of their five suspended players from claiming the club’s highest individual honour, the Bob Skilton Medal, which will be awarded at a function on Thursday night. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When the first siren sounds at the MCG on Saturday, Gerard Neesham will be in either the sandy savannah of the Kalahari Desert or a lodge in Maun, a village in Botswana that is the gateway for tourists on safari to the Okavango Delta. assertive

2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When the bells tolled for Wharfie Time with just over four minutes left in this epic grand final, few, if any, of the 100,023 crammed into the MCG could have imagined what they would see next. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When Cameron Bancroft made the seismic decision on March 24, 2018, to take a small sheet of sandpaper out of his pocket and attempt to scuff up the ball, he should have known he would never get away with it. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Marshall, 30, informed the Saints last week that he would not be attending the Trevor Barker Award function at Crown’s Palladium, saying he didn’t feel valued by the club and didn’t feel it was appropriate to attend while his trade request was in limbo. Marshall has played 177 games for the Saints over a 10-year stretch. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 South African cricket’s broadcast partner is using footage from the infamous ball-tampering scandal to promote coverage for the upcoming Test series, in an indication of the hot reception Australia will receive over the next month. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Piper said CV had attracted 35 more fans than they would have otherwise, “but I hope they’re self-employed and not being paid by Victorian employers to be there”. assertive

2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When Will Hayward and Ollie Florent were forced out last year as part of the trade to land Charlie Curnow from Carlton, both were thanked by Cameron in the club’s public statement. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Bringing in readymade talent is worth far more than picks to the Hawks, given where they are – and even then, they didn’t give much up – so this was a ragingly successful fortnight. Western Bulldogs In: Jordon Butts (Ade/free agency), Zak Butters (PA/free agency), Finn Maginness (Haw/trade), Hudson O’Keeffe (Carl/trade), picks 42, 53, 83, 89, R2 2027 (PA), R3 2027 (Mel), R4 2027 (PA), R2 2028 (PA), R3 2028 (PA), R3 2028 (GC), R4 2028 (Melb) Out: Picks 14 and 33, R3 2027 (GC), R1 2028 (WB) Draft picks: 42, 53, 55, 83, 89, 91, 109 Trade rating: 9.5/10 The Bulldogs could hardly be happier. assertive