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Football Nation’s league-wide round up providing our readers with a quick update of news from all clubs around the league.
Adelaide:
More than half of Adelaide’s first-picked players will be absent for Sunday’s NAB Cup triple-header against Port Adelaide and St Kilda, despite Nick Joyce, Jared Petrenko and Sam Shaw being the only Crows listed as injured.
Brisbane:
The surprise sighting of banned AFL player agent Peter Blucher threatened to turn most heads at the Brisbane Lions’ intra-club despite recovering ruckman Matthew Leuenberger’s encouraging return
Carlton:
Zach Tuohy’s steep learning curve is set to continue as Carlton grooms the talented Irishman to spend more time on the wing this season.
Collingwood:
Nathan Buckley has offered a ringing endorsement of skipper Nick Maxwell, using a brutally frank assessment of his own experience as Magpie skipper to illustrate why.
Essendon:
Dean Robinson, Essendon’s suspended conditioning coach, is devastated by the controversy surrounding the program he oversaw last year.
Fremantle:
Freo’s rookie squad member Matthew Taberner will miss the start of the season after being hit by a bout of glandular fever.
Geelong:
The Cats’ fringe players will this weekend be auditioning for a position in the Round 1 blockbuster against Hawthorn.
Gold Coast:
Jaegar O’Meara has heard it all.
Greater Western Sydney:
Former Hawthorn premiership player Stephen Gilham says he received an early reality check from his new club the GWS Giants.
Hawthorn:
Jarryd Roughead says Hawthorn will make the necessary adjustments to its game-plan after Sydney exposed cracks in last year’s grand final.
Melbourne:
Sometimes when sportspeople are being pilloried in the media, the simple perspective brought by one modest footballer’s story is as welcome as a cool change on a summer’s day.
North Melbourne:
A collision last year with North Melbourne goalsneak Lindsay Thomas has led to a series of rule changes for this weekend’s NAB Cup matches.
Port Adelaide:
Four months after Port Adelaide won a war for his services, acclaimed Darren Burgess has been hailed for turning around the club’s fitness program.
Richmond:
Star Richmond spearhead and dual Coleman Medallist, Jack Riewoldt, is not concerned with the amount of expectation surrounding the Club’s 2013 campaign.
St Kilda:
Former St Kilda defender Leigh Fisher will use this month’s NAB Cup to try to become the next ex-AFL player to make the transition to umpiring.
Sydney Swans:
Swans great Michael O’Loughlin wants to become the AFL’s first indigenous senior coach.
West Coast:
Young Eagles ruckman Scott Lycett, formerly of Ceduna, is set to stand up for the club in the NAB Cup and in the first few rounds of the 2013 AFL Season.
Western Bulldogs:
Bulldogs defender Dale Morris will play his first AFL game in 18 months in Friday night’s pre-season opener as he returns from major leg injuries.
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