Football Nation’s league-wide round up providing our readers with a quick update of news from all clubs around the league.
Adelaide:
Married, refreshed and itching for the season to begin, coach Brenton Sanderson has returned to West Lakes after a “perfect” European wedding and honeymoon.
Brisbane:
Vice-captain Daniel Merrett could not be happier that things are getting “narky’‘ at Lions training.
Carlton:
Jeremy Laidler is enjoying an unprecedented recovery from multiple knee injuries, but the Carlton defender insists he has been through nothing compared to others close to him.
Collingwood:
Powerhouse Collingwood recruit Quinten Lynch has taken giant strides toward settling a crucial forward starting role while gun midfielder Dale Thomas hobbles toward the start of a new premiership season.
Essendon:
Former Melbourne footballer Matthew Bate is excited about his next football challenge set to take place at Essendon in 2013.
Fremantle:
Matt de Boer has warned that competition for spots in the Dockers’ deepening midfield is hotting up, with pressure to perform increasing on even the club’s leading engine room lights as a group of young runners come through.
Geelong:
Champion defender Matthew Scarlett is set to join a host of Geelong greats in AFL folklore.
Gold Coast:
The Suns are set to inject some more pace to its midfield this season with lively half-back Jarrod Harbrow to spend more time in the middle of the ground.
Greater Western Sydney:
Giants midfielder Tom Scully has been named vice-captain in the AFL club’s streamlined leadership group for the 2013 season.
Hawthorn:
The music was loud and the intensity high in the gym at the Ricoh Centre on Tuesday as a group of players put their boxing gloves on and got to work.
Melbourne:
The Demons will field a very different team for Round 1 this season with up to a dozen changes from last year’s squad.
North Melbourne:
The Kangaroos’ new international rookie Eric Wallace will launch his Australian football career with the North Ballarat Roosters colours this year.
Port Adelaide:
Port Adelaide’s legendary bootstudder Alf Trebilcock has received a prestigious AFL honour for his almost half-century of service to the club and the game.
Richmond:
Injured midfielder Nathan Foley has progressed in the rehabilitation of his Achilles injury by running outside.
St Kilda:
Raphael and Xavier Clarke used to be teammates at St Kilda, are now housemates and have always been brothers. But for the next three weeks at least, the pair will have to deal with a different sort of relationship.
Sydney Swans:
AFL hopeful Lloyd Perris has had his first taste of a pre-season training program after joining the Sydney Swans on the track this week.
West Coast:
No news today.
Western Bulldogs:
The Bulldogs will use the NAB Cup to determine whether top draft picks Jake Stringer and Jackson Macrae are ready to step up and take on the Brisbane Lions in round one of the home and away season.
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