Premiership coach Chris Fagan and his assistants soak up the joy.Credit: Joe Armao Even so, the bottom line-driven AFL bosses remain frustrated by the campaign being led by senior coaches that has ...

Two of the game’s highest-profile coaches have issued a plea to the AFL as the tightening of the soft cap reaches “boiling point”. The soft cap was reduced by 30 per cent ahead of Covid ...

Essendon coach Brad Scott, who worked for the AFL in the football department between his stints as senior coach, couldn’t recall a coaching fraternity more “disenfranchised”. “In my time ...

It’s official AFL assistant coaches are footy’s forgotten men – and frustration has reached boiling point. JAY CLARK finds out just how big the issue is. Amid the outstanding growth in the ...

St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has joined his counterparts over the soft cap issue but has accepted the reality of winning the battle against the AFL. Lyon was asked to weigh in after Essendon coach ...