Suns rise over Gold Coast

Football’s worst kept secret was confirmed last night when the AFL’s latest franchise football club announced it’s name, jumper designs and club theme song at a function held on the Gold Coast on Thursday night. Read More »

Round 17 Teams

Been waiting all week to hear the important changes to both yours and the oppositions team? Make sure you log on to AFL Online at 5pm every Thursday to find out the teams for all the weekends matches. Read More »

Dogs become Aker sacker

There has been plenty of speculation over whether Bulldog veteran Jason Akermanis had played his last game at the club and today it was confirmed that the 33 year old had been sacked. Read More »

Light shed on Suns

With the Gold Coast Football Club previously announcing that they weren’t going to be using a mascot, league officials yesterday confirmed that the newest club will be know as the ‘Suns’ after it was revealed that the AFL had registered the domain name goldcoastsuns.com.au. Read More »

Riewoldt to return

St Kilda Skipper Nick Riewoldt looks set to make his return on Saturday night when St Kilda meet the Lions at the Gabba. Read More »

Round 11 Teams

Been waiting all week to hear the important changes to both yours and the oppositions team? Make sure you log on to AFL Online at 5pm every Thursday to find out the teams for all the weekends matches. Read More »

Round 10 Teams

Been waiting all week to hear the important changes to both yours and the oppositions team? Make sure you log on to AFL Online at 5pm every Thursday to find out the teams for all the weekends matches. Read More »

Round 9 Teams

Been waiting all week to hear the important changes to both yours and the oppositions team? Make sure you log on to AFL Online at 5pm every Thursday to find out the teams for all the weekends matches. Read More »

NAB Cup set for makeover

With the new Gold Coast team entering the competition in 2011, the AFL is looking to overhaul the current pre-season structure to implement a cricket type approach which will see shorter games played in quick succession. The birth of the Twenty20 game in cricket worked wonders, attracting people with fast, exciting matches and since its inception the popularity of the shorter game has soured bringing new fans to the sport. Now the AFL is planning to cash in on the new innovation adapting the pre-season competition to include the new Gold Coast club as well as the Greater Western Sydney team that will also join the league in 2012. The AFL had brainstormed a number of options to introduce the 17th team into the NAB Cup competition but struggled to come up with a fair system for all clubs and therefore decided that adding the upcoming West Sydney team into the… Read Full Article at http://www.thego.com.au

Round 6 Wrap

Since 2003 the AFL have marketed one round of the season by matching up traditional and recent rivals to help promote the game and increase publicity and crowds at the games. Some of the rivalries have lasted decades fuelled by suburb proximity and past grand final clashes. Read More »