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2026 Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductees
At tonight’s 2026 induction ceremony for the Australian Football Hall of Fame in Melbourne, Bill Walker, the only man in West Australian football history to have won four Sandover Medals was elevated to be the 34th Legend in the history of the game
At tonight’s 2026 induction ceremony for the Australian Football Hall of Fame in Melbourne, Bill Walker, the only man in West Australian football history to have won four Sandover Medals was elevated to be the 34th Legend in the history of the game.
A further six new members were welcomed into the Hall of Fame with their careers spanning both the current national competition at AFL level and the histories of the state leagues.
The man behind the name: Gary Ablett jnr lived in the public eye and stayed private
Back in 2018, I sat down with a genial Gary Ablett, who by then had achieved so much on the field that it was no longer necessary to affix “junior” to the back of his name.
The interview, a couple of weeks before the 2018 season, was tied to the son’s return to Geelong after his seven years in Tibet – in exile from football’s main street, on the Gold Coast, where he had maintained his standing as the game’s most accomplished midfielder for four or five years, taking a second Brownlow and two further gongs as the players’ most valuable player.
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How the ‘Baby Bomber’ who got thrown to the wolves became a hall-of-fame 400-gamer
Champion Essendon defender Dustin Fletcher started his AFL career off-script as he lined up to contest the centre bounce against Carlton beanpole and premiership ruckman Justin Madden in his first match.
Two hours later he was part of one of the game’s most memorable draws when a set shot from Carlton’s Stephen Kernahan to win the match after the siren went out on the full.
By the end of the season, Fletcher was Kernahan’s opponent in the grand final as “the Baby Bombers” stormed to an unlikely premiership with the 17-gamer playing full-back on the game’s best forward.
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