Southport Sharks’ Stephanie O’Brien was awarded the Emma Zielke Medal and Broadbeach Cats’ Kwaby Boakye claimed the 78th J.A Grogan Medal, Queensland AFL’s highest individual footballing honours, in front of almost 300 guests at The Gabba earlier this evening. It was…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend   The opening week of the Senior QAFL Men’s finals delivered two incredible spectacles that will forever be etched in the minds of those who were present to witness them. Wilston Grange defeated Surfers Paradise by…

Ben Ryan will never forget his second game as a senior field umpire. It was an extra special father/son moment he shared with his father Steve at the home ground of the one-time infamous Gladstone Mudcrabs in 1998. He was…

By Peter Blucher Connor Budarick has been in the AFL system 1,363 days, all for 28 games of AFL football. He’s had blocks of 393 days and 413 days without playing after not one but two knee reconstructions. He’s done…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend After a pulsating 21 rounds in the home 2023 QAFL Senior Men’s Home and Away season, we finally have the top six locked away with the opening week of finals fresh on our doorstep. It took…

Grand Final fever has hit the Sunshine State.   More than 80 Grand Finals will be played across eleven venues over five action-packed weekends, with the premier Bond University QAFLW Grand Final being held at Brighton Homes Arena on Sunday August 27th.…

The inaugural Queensland Wheelchair Football League Premiership will be decided this Sunday, when Morningside Panthers and Redcliffe Tigers do battle at Nissan Arena at 12:30pm. Four foundation clubs including Ormeau Bulldogs, Beenleigh Buffaloes, Morningside Panthers, and Redcliffe Tigers played in…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend   The stage is set for an epic final round in the QAFL Senior Men’s competition with just two positions locked in following the completion of the penultimate round. Reigning premiers Aspley secured the minor premiership…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend   The QAFL Senior Men’s competition took another drastic turn in the run to the 2023 Finals in Round 19 action on Saturday. With three games taking place in the final split round of the season;…

By Peter Blucher   In a sport in which loyalty is becoming a fading commodity, Noosa junior Jack Payne has defied the trend to lock in his long-term future with the Brisbane Lions. The powerhouse ex-Lions Academy defender, an appealing…

By Peter Blucher A shattered Will Ashcroft can take one small consolation from his season-ending knee injury last week … the knowledge that he has had the most productive first 18 games by a Queenslander in AFL history. With 398…

Ex-Aspley tearaway Oskar Baker has ridden the highs and the lows of the AFL in the past month, but has peaked on a big ‘high’ this week, signing a two-year contract extension with the Western Bulldogs. The 25-year-old redhead, dropped…

History was made on Sunday when the Allies’, a team comprising of players from Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Tasmania, defeated Vic Country to take out their inaugural Under 18 Boys National Championships. Six Queenslanders including Jed Walter,…

By Chris “Yeendy” Yeend    Round 15 of the QAFL Senior Men’s competition produced a stunning weekend of matches that turned the entire competition on its head. Sherwood has cracked through for its maiden win of the 2023 season with…

By Peter Blucher. Saturday afternoon 2 April 2011 at the Gabba. On centre wing, Stanley Street side of the ground, Michael Rischitelli kicked on the bounce to Jared Brennan. He gathered beautifully and went by hand to Brandon Matera, who…

By Peter Blucher. Tom Hickey now holds two Queensland AFL records. He shares with Ben Hudson the distinction of being the State’s only four-club AFL players, and now among 197 Queenslanders to play in the AFL he boasts the biggest…

By Peter Blucher. Adrian Fletcher, a 231-game AFL player born and bred in Hobart, won the Leitch Medal as the best player in the Tasmanian Football League as an 18-year-old in 1988. He also played in the TFL grand final…

By Peter Blucher. Lachie Keeffe has completed the most remarkable 100-game journey in Queensland AFL history … a journey that was more than 15 years in the making and began as a reason to dodge some schoolwork. Son of a…

By Peter Blucher. Cairns State High School claims some big personalities among their alumni, including NBA giant Aaron Baynes, Cairns mayor Bob Manning, AFL star Charlie Dixon, MLB pitcher Cam Cairncross and Miss World Australia turned cricket commentator Erin Holland.…

Mackay product Harry Arnold is bound for Sydney after being picked up by the Swans with pick #5 in the AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft. The 24-year-old started playing Aussie Rules as part of his primary school’s Auskick program in Mackay…

By Peter Blucher  Ben Keays walked off Adelaide Oval last Sunday evening one very proud young man, having celebrated his entry to Queensland’s 100-Game AFL Club in perfect fashion. Almost. Keays, delisted by the Brisbane Lions four years ago, played…

The Australian Football League has launched a national campaign to highlight the importance of showing respect for umpires at all levels, from community football through to the elite game. There are more than 15,000 umpires in community football nationwide –…

More players than ever will have the chance to pick up a footy with the introduction of the inaugural Queensland Wheelchair Football League next month with four foundation clubs.   The Ormeau Bulldogs, Beenleigh Buffaloes, Morningside Panthers, and Redcliffe Tigers…

Our community umpires joining in on the Sir Doug Nicholls Round celebrations with these deadly designs by local artists Jacob Severs and Rhan Hooper. The overall message of this design is about community spirit and the coming together of all…

By Peter Blucher  If Bailey Scott had kept a diary of his AFL career and used green pages for good days and red pages for bad days, he’d have a very red record of one of the AFL’s toughest apprenticeships.…

 By Peter Blucher  Samson Ryan was enjoying the best moment of his burgeoning AFL career last weekend when he seemed to be upstaged by his mother and his girlfriend. Ryan had nine possessions, five clearances, four score involvements, five inside…

One of the many highlights of Sir Doug Nicholls Round is the stunning, specially designed jumpers and the fascinating stories behind them.  The Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast SUNS have unveiled their 2023 Indigenous Guernseys to be worn throughout the…

By Peter Blucher  Where is the ceiling for Brisbane Lions excitement machine and goal-kicking dynamo Charlie Cameron? It’s a question that has to be asked after Cameron, who last weekend became the first Queenslander to play 100 consecutive AFL games,…

By Peter Blucher  Dayne Zorko finished his 236th AFL game pretty much on one leg last weekend, while Charlie Dixon played his 195th AFL game pretty much on one leg from the start, yet both celebrated key milestones in Round…

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Noosa has made the one change with Isaac McCrimmon coming out and Mason Gilifillan coming in. For Aspley, William O’Dwyer and Rhiley Owens come in while Mitch Crawley and James Nellis come out from the team that beat…