Australian Football

They won't be meeting in the 2019 Grand Final, but Richmond and Collingwood put on a hell of a show in the 1973 VFL Preliminary Final. Mic Rees takes us back 46 years.

A remarkable comeback from Richmond against Essendon in last Saturday's VFL Qualifying Final prompted Andrew Gigacz to look back at the great comebacks of VFA/VFL history.

Mic Rees takes us back four decades as he profiles the hat-trick of flags won by Port Melbourne in 1980, 1981 and 1982 under the stewardship of captain-coach Gary Brice.

Tim Ghys takes us back to the inaugural VFL season of 1897 and the day Geelong created a new league record score.

The pantheon of 300-game Indigenous players is much larger and older than what it is credited for by the AFL. Jeff Reynolds makes a strong case for the widening of the AFL's historical lens.

Mic Rees looks back at the career of one of footy's greatest enigmas, Brent Crosswell, a four-time premiership champion who set the VFL world alight — when he was in the mood.

When a medal for the league's best and fairest was struck in Charles Brownlow's honour, it was fitting a Geelong player should win – although the award was not without critics. Matt Gibbs investigates.

As Mic Rees recalls the coaching careers of Norm Smith and Ron Barassi, he looks back at the event that shocked the football world, Barassi's defection from Melbourne to Carlton in 1965.

It's hard enough to win back-to-back AFL flags at any time but, as Andrew Gigacz reveals, history shows that the task is a nigh on impossible one for teams that have broken a drought. 

To win more than four AFL premierships as coach would be a remarkable achievement. As Andrew Gigacz reports, it was an unattainable mark for Tom Hafey, and has been for every coach since. 

Andrew Gigacz looks back on Richmond's last 12 months, charting the Tigers' amazing transformation from a club on the brink to one basking in premiership glory.

Adam Cardosi, founder and editor at-large of australianfootball.com, reports in detail on Richmond's drought-breaking win in Saturday's AFL Grand Final.

Andrew Gigacz recently unpacked a box of old Footy Records and the memories came flooding back. Here, he reminisces while looking through his old editions from 1977.

The naming of the 2017 AFL Australian Team generated the usual annual round of discussion, debate and downright dissent, writes Andrew Gigacz.

Andrew Gigacz pays tribute to Bob Murphy, who over 18 seasons has given him more joy as a Bulldogs fan than any other player to have pulled on the red, white and blue jumper. 

Forty years after the season it chronicled, John Powers' classic football documentary The Coach has been re-released. Mic Rees revisits the seminal work.

The 1877 season heralded a revolution in the game, with the formation of the SAFA and VFA, respectively. Footy historian Trevor Gyss examines the season that was.

Andrew Gigacz remembers the magnificent careers in separate leagues of Gary Dempsey and Fred Cook, who debuted together with Footscray exactly 50 years ago.

Andrew Gigacz reviews Nick Richardson's meticulously researched look back at the place of football - and footballers - in the Great War.

Andrew Gigacz ponders how the Western Bulldogs' premiership and the events of the two months since the Grand Final have affected him. 

Andrew Gigacz looks back on AFL season 2016, a year of highs and lows for many clubs, and one that finished on the highest of highs for the Western Bulldogs.

Mad Western Bulldog fan Andrew Gigacz looks back on his life-long, at times rocky, love affair with his beloved Dogs, at last a premiership side. 

A 62-year premiership drought has finally been broken. Andrew Gigacz looks back at a magical Grand Final that will live forever in the memories of all Western Bulldogs.

Andrew Gigacz reviews The Galahs, a film that tells the tale of how Harry Beitzel audaciously convinced some of Australia's best footy players to take on Ireland's best at their own game.