by Peter Blucher Kurt Tippett has joined Queensland football’s AFL heartbreak club. Tippett, a member of the Sydney Swans’ side beaten by the Western Bulldogs in Saturday’s grand final thriller at the MCG, is now one of four Queenslanders to…

BnF The Best and Fairest winners just keep on rolling in, and this time, it’s Tom Overington at Sandgate. Tommy O had a fantastic year in the green and red, becoming their most prolific ball winner through the middle, and…

The AFL has confirmed the selection order for the inaugural AFL Women’s Draft. GWS Giants will have the first selection. The Draft will follow a ‘snaking order’ after the first round. The first round will proceed as follows: GWS Giants Brisbane…

  By Peter Blucher. Kurt Tippett will fly the flag for Queensland football solo in Saturday’s Toyota AFL grand final. The 29-year-old Sydney Swans forward/ruckman will be the only Queenslander in action on the biggest day of the football year…

They might be lining up in a different division next year, but the focus is still the same for UQ. Moving from the QAFL into the QFA Division 1 for season 2017 hasn’t changed the Red Lions’ outlook, with finals…

 How good is your Queensland AFL Grand Final knowledge? Find out in Peter Blucher’s quiz below!  

One less on the merry-go-round After taking Palm Beach Currumbin to a QAFL Grand Final this year, Chad Owens is going around again as head coach of the Lions for 2017. I’m glad both parties reached an agreement, definitely the…

Brisbane Lions marquee player, and AFL Queensland Participation Programs Officer, Sabrina Frederick-Traub will be on hand to provide leadership advice and guidance for participants in this week’s AFL National Female Diversity Championships. More than 200 young players from indigenous and…

The Brisbane AFL Grand Final Luncheon is back for edition II. This Friday, September 30, at the Brisbane Town Hall, Jason Akermanis, Dermott Brereton and John Platten will take guests into the inner-sanctum, sharing their three favorite personal Grand Final…

By Peter Blucher.         Aliir Aliir is walking an injury tightrope desperately hoping to avoid a grand final bogey that already has caught him once in his burgeoning AFL career. The Sydney Swans defender, arguably the biggest…

By Peter Blucher.     Nick Riewoldt is poised to get himself on the AFL Brownlow Medal vote list for a record 15th year in a row on Monday night. Assuming his outstanding 2016 season is worth at least one…

By Peter Blucher.   There’s something very, very special about an AFL preliminary final. It’s obviously not a grand final, which carries the totally contrasting emotions of utter joy and total devastation depending on the outcome. And it never will…

By Peter Blucher. Jake Spencer will be desperately hoping this weekend to salvage something from a year of AFL frustration. Spencer, without a game at the highest level since 30 August 2015, will turn out for the Casey Scorpions in…

Just when you thought Queensland’s year of draftee’s and debutants couldn’t get any better, Yeronga ruckman Matt Eagles has won FOX8’s reality TV show, The Recruit, and a spot on the Brisbane Lions’ rookie list. Eagles, who arrived at Leyshon…

Six Queensland grassroots clubs have celebrated off the field this year after winning exclusive AFL opportunities through 2016 thanks to the FOX FOOTY Club Rewards program. As recipients of the Bronze-tier award FOX FOOTY Club Rewards program, three QLD clubs…

The AFL has today released updated squads for the two NAB AFL All Stars matches which will be played as part of AFL Grand Final week. Seven Queenslanders will will head down to Melbourne on Grand Final weekend to take…

The AFL today unveiled the much anticipated ‘W’ logo for the inaugural AFL Women’s competition. The final piece in the puzzle, this bold new logo in conjunction with the recently launched name, AFL Women’s, celebrates our women players and the…

Tippett a chance to play.   By Peter Blucher. All eyes will be on Sydney Swans big man Kurt Tippett ahead of the penultimate weekend of the Toyota AFL season this week. After the Swans kept their season alive with…

AFL Queensland and Associated Independent Colleges (AIC) are proud to announced that an AFL competition has been approved by the AIC Heads of Colleges as an endorsed sport for Year 5 and Year 6 in 2017. The competition will be…

Another ‘first” for Aliir.   By Peter Blucher. The 2016 season has been an astonishing procession of “firsts” for Sydney Swans defender Aliir Aliir. Since his first AFL game in Round 6 at the Gabba, he has added one line…

The all-defining and emotional rollercoaster that is football in September took four Queenslanders on a contrasting journey over the first weekend of the Toyota AFL finals. Hawthorn’s Brendan Whitecross, playing his first final since 2013 and his eighth game of…

Palm Beach Currumbin’s Jesse Derrick claimed the 2016 Grogan Medal, the QAFL’s highest individual footballing honour on Sunday night. Derrick, the Lions’ captain, finished the home and away season on 21 votes, one ahead of teammate Josh Woolley on 20.…

By Peter Blucher.   Brendan Whitecross will step back into the AFL finals arena Friday night after an absence of 1085 days. Whitecross took another step down a monumental comeback path Thursday night when selected in the Hawthorn side that…

If you are a fair-dinkum Queensland football fan there can be only choice to sit at the top of the all-time top 10 favorite moments in the AFL … the Brisbane Lions’ 2001 premiership. The picture of Michael Voss, favourite…

The AFL is pleased to announce nominations for the inaugural AFL Women’s Draft opened today, Friday September 3. The AFL Women’s Draft will be held on Wednesday October 12 in Melbourne. The Draft order will be decided by a lottery.…

  The Gold Coast Suns investment in the club’s talent academy has paid off again, with Jesse Joyce signing a contract extension. The home grown product was a surprise packet for Rodney Eade in 2016, missing just one game since…

By Peter Blucher.   The AFL coaches have collectively voted St.Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt as the best-performed Queenslander in the AFL in 2016. Easily. Using votes in the AFL Coach’s Association Player of the Year Award as a guide, Riewoldt…

Where did Jade come from? When Kalinda Howarth kicked six goals for Coolangatta in Saturday’s first game of the QWAFL triple-header, she extended her lead in the league goal kicking to six. With that buffer between her and second place,…

Riewoldt’s brilliant finale.   By Peter Blucher. Nick Riewoldt bid farewell to the St.Kilda captaincy in spectacular fashion on Sunday. Or did he? As the 33-year-old champion collected a career-best 21 marks and an equal career-best nine goals against the…

By Peter Blucher .   In a season in which Queensland football has been battered amid the struggles of the Brisbane Lions and the Gold Coast SUNS the state’s AFL production line has continued to produce elite talent. On Saturday…