Channel Seven broadcast players' confidential medical records, reportedly bought for $3,000 from a woman who found them in a gutter outside a Melbourne clinic, a saga nicknamed Guttergate.
The AFL won a Supreme Court injunction and the players boycotted Seven.
Media
North Melbourne and Brunswick drew their VFA semi-final, the first final in the Association's history to finish level, and the replay was drawn as well.
A third match was needed before the semi-final had a winner.
Rules
Women representing the 27th Battalion beat a team representing the Royal Australian Artillery 2.13 to 2.6 at Broken Hill, a Red Cross fundraiser where every official bar one was a woman.
It was played two weeks before the first organised women's game in Victoria.
Women's football
Colin Ridgway, a former Carlton junior and the first Australian to play in the NFL, was waived by Dallas after running drop-kicks failed to translate to American football.
People
Melbourne's team bus was involved in a road rage incident on the way back to the airport after the loss to West Coast, and a man was charged with causing significant damage to the bus.
Oddities
Hawthorn v North Melbourne was moved forward from 4:40pm to 12:30pm after electrical workers in Launceston took industrial action, which meant lighting at University of Tasmania Stadium was no longer needed.
Hawthorn won 26.14 (170) to 7.4 (46).
Administration
Collingwood won by 128 points
VFL · Sectional Round 3 · Victoria Park
Hawthorn won by 124 points
AFL · Round 24 · UTAS Stadium · crowd 11,392
Draw
VFL · Round 19 · Windy Hill · crowd 24,757
Draw
VFL · Round 16 · Victoria Park · crowd 10,500
300th AFL game, Sydney v St Kilda
300th AFL game, Brisbane v Hawthorn
Western Bulldogs v Carlton, first of 251 VFL/AFL games
Collingwood v North Melbourne, first of 249 VFL/AFL games
Richmond v Melbourne, first of 245 VFL/AFL games
Hawthorn v Richmond, first of 218 VFL/AFL games
Essendon, 184 games (2016-2026)
Essendon, 6 games (2026)
South Melbourne, 226 games (1907-1920)
