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…

Each year the AFL recognises Sir Doug Nicholls Round in May to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and its contribution to our game. Community clubs across Queensland and Northern New South Wales mark the occasion with their own…

By Peter Blucher  On 25 November 2016 Jack Payne watched three good mates from the Brisbane Lions Academy get drafted to the AFL. Jacob Allison went from Aspley to the Lions, Declan Watson from Aspley to North Melbourne and Elliot…

By Peter Blucher  Corey Wagner is nothing if not persistent. He’s been in and out of the AFL system since 24 November 2015. Or, more accurately, in and out and in and out … and now in again. The one-time…

By Peter Blucher There was a moment in the last week of November 2013 when two newcomers to the Sydney Swans from extraordinarily different backgrounds with extraordinarily different football profiles met for the first time. One was a Kenyan-born refugee…

By Peter Blucher  It was a picture that told 1000 words … all of them sad. Lying face down in the middle of Marrara Stadium in Darwin, Lachie Weller thumped the ground. Not once or twice but repeatedly. Surging forward…

By Peter Blucher  AFL draft guru Callum Twomey is an unabashed Will Ashcroft fan. So much so that he says the boom Brisbane Lions’ newcomer has served the best AFL ‘apprenticeship’ in history. Now back in Queensland after a short…

By Peter Blucher Sherwood junior Samson Ryan has done what no other player in AFL history has done. He has kicked three goals with his first three kicks – in just his second game. Adding further potential to one of…

By Peter Blucher  Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has been like a second father to Charlie Dixon. He has steered the big ex-Cairns basketballer through much of his 15 years in the AFL, and together they share a special player/coach…

By SUNS Media Gold Coast SUNS Academy graduate Bodhi Uwland will make his AFL debut against the Sydney Swans at Heritage Bank Stadium on Saturday night. Uwland has been a lifelong SUNS fan and started his footy journey on the Gold…

In an unprecedented achievement for Australian football in Queensland, four born-and-bred umpires have reached the ultimate goal of joining the AFL list for the 2023 season. Field umpires Andrew Adair, James Strybos, Matthew Young and boundary umpire Ty Duncan have…

Harris Andrews has once again been named in the AFL Players’ Association’s (AFLPA) 22Under22 Team of the Decade, proudly presented by Snaffle. Headlined by the likes of Dustin Martin, Christian Petracca, Marcus Bontempelli, Jeremy Cameron, Darcy Moore and Brodie Grundy,…