St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt has backed the AFL's proposals to toughen up their illicit drug use rules and claiming the league's current policy 'clearly needs more rigour.' It was revealed earlier ...

The AFL, the national governing body for Australian Rules football, is a signatory to WADA's anti-doping code but runs a separate "Illicit Drug Policy" (IDP) for drugs like cocaine and ecstasy ...

Let the deals begin, with AFL free agency opening on Friday.Source ... It lines up every contract of players aged over 25 for a basic snapshot and sorts it into an order based on a points value ...

Maynard said he had no qualms with the AFL changing the rules and said he would have to adjust his game quickly to fall in line. Maynard’s hit on Brayshaw was a flashpoint of the finals series.

AFL football operations boss Laura Kane reaffirmed ... “In the past 10 years we have made more than 30 changes to our rules to protect the brain health of our players, and this change only ...