Herald Sun: West Coast will challenge a two-match suspension offered to onballer Tyson Stenglein for a rough conduct charge.
Monday night football, which will return to early-season AFL fixtures next year, may emerge as a scheduling feature of the next broadcast rights negotiations.
Melbourne has been re-cast as the AFL's bad boys after years of playing the good guy role.
Barry Stoneham and Jason Snell know all about broken leg bones and they have one line of advice for Nathan Brown: don't hurry back.
Star Melbourne footballer Aaron Davey has come under the spotlight following allegations of an early-morning nightclub fracas.
Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams has lost patience with his premiership side and will wield the axe for Sunday's clash with St Kilda in Launceston.
Assignments against Geelong and Melbourne in the next two weeks will hand Collingwood a critical mid-season assessment.
Channel 10 has conceded it erred by choosing this week's Carlton-Sydney clash as its marquee Saturday afternoon fixture.
The Age: Mercurial forward Daniel Motlop will be a shock inclusion for the Kangaroos' crucial clash with Melbourne on Sunday, at least a month ahead of schedule in his return from a shoulder reconstruction.
Geelong supporters donated almost a quarter of a million dollars to the club on Friday night, on the eve of the Cats' match against Fremantle, making the club's annual Number One Ticket Holder's Dinner one of the biggest fund-raising nights in AFL football.
Demons defender Alistair Nicholson's 100th match on Friday saw little fanfare in the lead-up, but that didn't stop his coach praising a player who is respected within but often maligned outside the club.
St Kilda has chosen captain Nick Riewoldt and senior players Aaron Hamill, Fraser Gehrig and Luke Ball to join club president Rod Butterss and coach Grant Thomas as pallbearers at Tuesday's funeral of television great Graham Kennedy.
All-Australian midfielder Luke Power has been urged not to "bail out" on his club while the going's tough, his coach Leigh Matthews shamelessly playing the conscience card on his vice-captain, who is out of contract at the end of the season.
Brisbane Lions coach Leigh Matthews on Monday leapt to the defence of his skipper Michael Voss, saying the midfielder was still a crucial member of the side despite being past his prime.
The Australian: Brisbane coach Leigh Matthews has launched a scathing attack on the decision to scrap the controversial retention allowance as the club battles to retain star midfielder Luke Power.
The increasingly bitter feud between Brisbane and the AFL's Victorian interests has reached a new flash-point, with the Lions and several Melbourne clubs squaring off over the playing future of one of the brightest teenage talents in the country.
Geelong may need to find a new home for a ground announcer, ground manager, scoreboard operator and umpires' observer because of the problems caused by the setting sun at Skilled Stadium.
Essendon captain James Hird is likely to lead the Bombers again next season, possibly for one last year.
Adelaide Advertiser: Port Adelaide captain Matthew Primus knows the axe must swing at Power selection in the aftermath of the record 117-point thrashing at the hands of West Coast.
Adelaide is the second-most inaccurate team in the AFL.
The West Australian: West Coast are likely to ask the AFL on Tuesday to delay Tyson Stenglein's tribunal hearing until Wednesday so he can fly to Melbourne to contest a rough conduct charge against Port Adelaide's Ben Eckerman.
Football surgeons across Australia are again focused on the injured knee of West Coast forward Michael Gardiner, who was ruled out for three weeks on Monday with a new strain to his reconstructed joint.
Sydney Morning Herald: Swans coach Paul Roos on Monday accepted part of the blame for the Swans' ugly loss to St Kilda on Saturday night, before outlining a plan to get his young players out of their rut.
