Also don’t forget the 2018 Commonwealth Games which were held in the region.
Its legacy remains - there are plenty of Borobi statues in the region, including in places like Currumbin Wildlife Park and just north of Surfers Paradise.
Coleman medallist Jeremy Cameron was named captain of the All-Australian Team, with Crows skipper Jordan Dawson the vice-captain.
Gold Coast captain Noah Anderson and Geelong’s Bailey Smith were named joint winners of the 2025 AFL Coaches Association Champion Player of the Year, with both finishing on 103 votes.
Collingwood star Nick Daicos won the AFL Players Association’s MVP Award.
For the eleventh year running, GWS had at least one player named in the final All-Australian team; this was also the thirteenth straight year that the club had at least one player named in the preliminary squad.
Quite an effort from the AFL’s youngest club.
Dave Hughes - 5 cracked ribs and punctured lung - played through the game. Wife took him to hospital at 5am with breathing difficulties.
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Kyerin Grundy has been left shattered after being denied the top prize for winning AFL Fantasy.
Grundy defeated more than 150,000 registered teams to score the most points across the gruelling season.
The major prize for the overall winner is a Toyota Hilux valued at up to $70,000.
But Grundy has been told he is not eligible to win anything. And that is because he is the brother of Sydney superstar Brodie Grundy.
The official accounts haven’t yet announced the overall winner and it’s unclear what the promoters of the competition will do with the prizes now that Grundy has been ruled ineligible.
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Should have played Supercoach instead.
Did he have his brother in the team?
Yes, but Kyerin only brought in his brother into his fantasy team late in the season.
Fremantle’s Caleb Serong has won ABC Radio’s Geoff Christian Medal for the second time in three years, as the best AFL player from a WA-based team.
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What’s the confusion? Of course you’d be ineligible.
Whether he had his brother in his squad or not is immaterial - no reasonable definition of “immediate family” that is set out in the T&C excludes siblings.
The Auskick example that is offered is a tad specious - the likelihood of an Auskicker having a sibling that is an AFL footballer is small.
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More likely it’d be a child or niece or nephew.
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Dave Hughes was released from hospital yesterday and spoke by phone to Fox’s Fifi, Fev and Nick this morning.
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Confirmation in this AFL memo to clubs that the ARC will be used for key boundary line decisions in the finals.
The ARC has been used for goal and behind decisions only in 2025.
https://x.com/tommorris32/status/1962451225909350835
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So it took him 2 weeks to speak out…. Disgraceful.
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Noah Anderson has been named SEN / AFL Nation Player of the Year for 2025, beating Nick Daicos and Bailey Smith by just one vote.
Adelaide’s Daniel Curtin won the SEN Rising Star award.