North Melbourne’s top AFL draftee Colby McKercher has been sent to hospital to assess his ribs after colliding with Geelong superstar Jeremy Cameron. McKercher was on a collision course with Cameron as he trailed the ball into a contest late in the first quarter of North’s clash with the Cats on Saturday. The Roos youngster … Read more
North Melbourne president Dr Sonja Hood has had enough. Hood is a well known user of social media and often tweets and posts about her team and her AFL club. But after a weekend of what she described as “revolting” abuse, Hood has decided to wind up her account on X (formerly Twitter). Stream analysis, … Read more
Dual Brownlow medallist Lachie Neale has revealed the conversation that took place before his benching late in Brisbane’s first win of the AFL season. The Lions banished a week of drama in taking care of North Melbourne for a 16.16 (112) to 6.6 (42) victory at Norwood Oval, led by Joe Daniher’s busy night of … Read more
North Melbourne spearhead Nick Larkey could come under scrutiny from the AFL’s Match Review Officer for slinging Carlton’s Mitch McGovern into the ground. McGovern nailed Larkey with a crushing but fair tackle late in the third quarter of the Blues’ traditional Good Friday clash with the Kangaroos, which elicited an angry reaction out of the … Read more
AFL goalkicking champion Brendan Fevola nailed a kick from the boundary line to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Good Friday Appeal during half time of North Melbourne’s clash with Carlton on Friday. Carlton hall of famer Fevola, along with fellow retired AFL player Daniel Harris, who played 149 games for North Melbourne plus … Read more
AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon insists the league has not finalised a sanction for wayward North Melbourne midfielder Tarryn Thomas and there is no timeline on the end of its investigation. A potentially career-ending suspension for Thomas, 23, appears imminent, but he is still awaiting his fate more than three weeks after he met with … Read more
North Melbourne midfielder Tarryn Thomas’ career is hanging by a thread and is expected to cop a massive suspension from the AFL. 7NEWS chief AFL reporter Mitch Cleary says key stakeholders and those “close to Thomas” are expecting a long suspension any day now of at least half the season. WATCH THE VIDEO AB OVE: … Read more
A magistrate has slammed a 21-year-old man’s attack on retiring North Melbourne player Jack Ziebell as “vile, repugnant and utterly stupid”, as he fined him $25,000. Ibrahim Behluli sat in the front row of Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday, where he was sentenced after pleading guilty to intentionally causing injury and affray over last year’s … Read more
Minutes before North Melbourne star Jack Ziebell was attacked outside retirement celebrations, his teammate Charlie Comben was bashed inside the venue, a court has been told. Comben was set upon by three men inside the The Osborne Rooftop and Bar in South Yarra after midnight on August 20, a prosecutor told Melbourne Magistrates Court. WATCH … Read more
