Recent news

Bumps, bruises and season-enders

ADELAIDE
Injury Update:
Brett Burton, ACL rupture, knee reconstruction, season
Jason Porplyzia, dislocated shoulder, ongoing assessment
Brent Reilly, strained medial knee ligament, 3 weeks

We have a new set of match photos posted from the Hawthorn v Sydney match, Round 15, 2008, in our gallery. Here are a few samples of the great photos taken by our photojournalists in Melbourne:

To see the full size photos and the full gallery click on the above link or the link on the side menu.

Carlton gets the blues as St. Kilda triumphs

St. Kilda has returned to the top eight following a hard fought 29 point victory over a lackluster Carlton side at the MCG on Friday night.  The Saints forwards were sensational in near perfect conditions as Steven Milne (five goals) and Nick Riewoldt (three goals) effectively kicked Carlton out of the game.

Effective today, AFANA.com sports a new look and easier to use interface.   The new design is expected to be more compatible with a wider range of browsers, monitors, and operating systems and be more straightforward to use.  Key to the interface is that most of places you might want to go on the site are all on the drop down menus (as well as some of the traditional places).   The color scheme is brighter and the sidebars have both moved to the right side where you can find the links to recent stories, comments, blogs, and news from around the web.  User specific menu items and the TV schedule summary (downloadable from Google Calendars) are still right where you would expect them.  This completes the last major step in an upgrade process that began in December, 2007.

Questions or problems should be submitted via the Feedback links. 

As a reminder, AFANA has launched a drive for donations along with a new series of donation levels to replace the previous membership options.  Fans can support AFANA by following our "Donate To AFANA" link at the top right of every page and choosing one of the different donation choices we have.

Setanta e-mailed it's subscribers with a notice today making the case for former ITVN subscribers to sign up for NexTV (see our earlier article on NexTV).  The notice also mentioned the on-going problems that former ITVN subscribers have had getting their monthly credit card, checking, and debit card payments to the now defunct ITVN stopped -- see this thread.  (AFANA agrees with the notice below... call your credit card company or bank and place a fraud report!).   We are unable to excerpt the text of the Setanta e-mail because for reasons unfathomable to AFANA, the text is available solely embedded into an image, worse it is white text on a black background in a small font.   (Dumb!)  Here is the notice they sent out:

After years of frustration, things are about to get a lot better

Dockers see off 'Roos, show signs of life

True to the words of their theme song, the Fremantle Dockers conquered the psychological hoodoo that has haunted them for the past six weeks and gave the North Melbourne Kangaroos the “old heave-ho” at Subiaco Oval on Saturday. Their 53 point thrashing of the Kangaroos was their best performance of the season so far and although it may not be enough to silence some hometown critics, it has breathed life into a club which was on the verge of imploding.

Where does it hurt?

ADELAIDE
Injury Update:
Nathan Bassett, neck, ongoing assessment
Bryce Campbell, calf/knee, 1 week

Guilty or Not Guilty?

Adam Simpson (NM), striking Fremantle's Ryan Crowley: assessed as reckless conduct (two points), low impact (one point) and high contact (two points), equaling five points, a Level Two offense, 125 demerits and a one game suspension.

Star of the Oval to shine in the Melbourne front office

Former club champion Jim Stynes was appointed the new Melbourne chairman after the resignation of Paul Gardner, who announced last week that he would step aside. Seven other directors, including Beverley O'Connor, also stepped down.