Herald Sun: As much as it hurts, Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy harbours doubts whether cancer sufferer Adam Ramanauskas will ever play again.
Kangaroos coach Dean Laidley will appear before the club board this morning to be quizzed on the team's poor start to the season.
Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy says its time for the game's administration to play for the next 15 years rather than adopt a band-aid approach to issues such as flooding.
Fremantle coach Chris Connolly says if Brisbane behemoth Jonathan Brown wasn't playing in the AFL he would be representing Australia in the Olympics or another world sporting event.
Carlton coach Denis Pagan delivered a message of support for kingpins Anthony Koutoufides and Nick Stevens as they try to prop up a struggling team.
Richmond and Matthew Richardson will buck the trend for footballers aged more than 30 by announcing a two-year contract extension as early as the weekend.
Nathan Brown was thrilled to progress from the pool to the track as the Tigers eased the star forward back into regular training.
Carlton has achieved part of its board wishlist with the addition of a premiership player, Adrian Gleeson, but missed out on businessman Daniel Grollo.
Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy will have only one runner to deliver his messages for the second time in successive seasons.
St Kilda's chances of renewing its Tasmanian contract beyond 2007 are so low that AFL Live in Tasmania is already looking for a club to replace the Saints.
Melbourne will consider giving teenager Clint Bartram the toughest job in football - running with West Coast champion Chris Judd.
While the fans want blood, Geelong coach Mark Thompson is backing out-of-form players, in particular full-forward Kent Kingsley.
Hawthorn captain Richie Vandenberg and Essendon forward Andrew Lovett will challenge the severity of their suspensions at an AFL Appeals Board hearing tonight.
The Advertiser: Adelaide has vowed to play hard ball against Carlton at AAMI Stadium on Saturday.
Crows recruiting manager James Fantasia says the new AFL NSW scholarship scheme will enable clubs to take a punt on more pure athletes.
Mark Williams' message is still penetrating loud and clear, insists Power forward Josh Mahoney.
The Age: Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy has ramped up his push for radical changes to Australian football by calling for a full-blown inquiry into the future of the code.
Dean Rioli, expresses hope, rather than great confidence, that his creaky knee will allow him to play the two games he needs to get to his 100th game.
Hawthorn captain Richie Vandenberg and Essendon's Andrew Lovett will tonight appeal the suspensions handed to them by the AFL tribunal this week.
St Kilda forward Aaron Hamill is poised to join teammate Justin Koschitzke in Queensland on an endorsed sabbatical.
Three AFL players who allegedly tested positive for drugs were public figures whose names should be published, a judge heard yesterday.
Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett meets coach Alastair Clarkson to discuss the former premier's controversial public criticisms of the team.
AFL football picked a bad week to have a bad week. Controversy over the stultifying tactics of the coaches in the Richmond-Adelaide match, ventilated by a typically zany piece of Kevin Sheedy criticism, made it the most infamous contest in recent history.
Fremantle admits it is contemplating calling in a former umpire to assess why it has been on the wrong end of free kicks in all but one of its eight games this season.
The Australian: At least Kent Kingsley would have seen it coming. Kingsley has kicked one goal in five games, Geelong has won one game in six and he is the one player Geelong supporters love to dump on when things get wobbly. So it would have come as no surprise to see his face on the back of yesterday's local paper and a headline demanding his axing from the team.
Fremantle coach Chris Connolly yesterday let slip he had come up with a possible strategy to stop Brisbane powerhouse Jonathan Brown.
The exact form the AFL's bail-out of cash-strapped Carlton will not be known until next month following the next meeting of commissioners.
The Adelaide Crows' injury problems seem to grow week by week, but while forward Scott Welsh could be part of the answer, events are conspiring against Adelaide to delay his return.
Eagles coach John Worsfold has vowed to continue seeking advice from Kevin Sheedy despite the Essendon mentor's stinging criticism of him following Sunday's fiery match.
John Kennedy, a master coach of an era before floods, talls and loose ball gets, once begged his struggling Hawthorn side in the 1975 grand final: "Don't think, don't hope, do. Do something." Yesterday a modern master did much the same thing for the sake of AFL football. Kevin Sheedy begged Kevin Bartlett, former Richmond premiership team-mate and member of the AFL laws of the game committee, to do something to stop the tactic of flooding.
The Courier Mail: Forget one week at a time, the Lions believe victory against Fremantle at the Gabba on Sunday will prove they have legitimate finals aspirations – but it looks increasingly likely they will have to get to September without veteran Justin Leppitsch.
Geelong Advertiser: Geelong chief executive Brian Cook has put the onus on the club's players to stand up and fight.
Geelong is searching for a win, not a scapegoat, after the club's record loss to Collingwood last Saturday.
Has the captain's curse struck our intrepid leader once again down at Catland?
The West Australian: The WA Football Commission will today unveil its $235 million pitch to redevelop Subiaco Oval, including plans to revitalise surrounding streets and double the number of spectators who use public transport.
Mystery surrounds the fitness of Brownlow medallist Ben Cousins after he failed to attend West Coast's main training session yesterday before Sunday's clash with the red-hot Melbourne at Subiaco Oval.
