| AFL: The Big 10 in 2010 You little beauty: footy is back! With the NAB Cup starting this week, it's time to put down the cricket bat, pick up the Sherrin - and take a screamer with our predictions for 2010.  Port, Magpies merger thrown out Port Adelaide's proposed merger with their debt-stricken local affiliate club the Port Adelaide Magpies is all but dead after the SANFL directors voted unanimously against the move. Bombers' young guns under cloud The immediate future of two of Essendon's brightest key position prospects - Scott Gumbleton and Michael Hurley - is uncertain heading into Friday night's AFL pre-season opener. We don't need Fevola, say Carlton Carlton's Jarrad Waite insists the Blues' forward line will be more potent this season despite losing two-time Coleman Medallist Brendan Fevola to Brisbane Lions. They're Lion over new logo Lifelong Fitzroy supporters have provided documentation Brisbane Lions believe will scuttle a Supreme Court bid to ban the club's controversial new logo. Hindmarsh appointed face of west Parramatta Eels' Nathan Hindmarsh has been appointed as the NRL's face of the west, but the AFL's Team GWS head coach Kevin Sheedy claims he has never heard of him. Johnson's achilles delays return Western Bulldogs captain Brad Johnson is managing a lingering achilles injury but is expected to play late in the NAB Cup. Folau not reading the script It was meant to be a day to promote the game in rugby league heartland, but someone obviously forgot to hand the script to NRL All-Stars winger Israel Folau. Stokes banned until round eight Mathew Stokes' AFL career is on hold for at least the next three months as the Geelong forward faces his cocaine charges. Boundary umpires to award free kicks THE AFL will trial three rule changes in the 2010 NAB Cup, the most extreme of which allows boundary umpires to award free kicks. News Wizard |