Here follows the AFL news list for this week.

1 PROGRAM OF MATCHES (all times are local) 

Round Eight (All times are local)

Friday May 9

Sydney Swans v Hawthorn at ANZ Stadium, 7.50pm; Curtain Raiser (NEAFL) – Sydney Swans v UWS Giants, 4.10pm

Saturday May 10

Port Adelaide v Fremantle at Adelaide Oval, 1.10pm

Brisbane Lions v Essendon at the Gabba, 4.40pm

Melbourne v Western Bulldogs at the MCG, 7.40pm

Sunday May 11

West Coast v GWS Giants at Patersons Stadium, 2.40pm; Curtain Raiser – State Under 16s Championships

Monday May 12

St Kilda v Carlton at Etihad Stadium, 7.10pm

Foxtel Cup

Tuesday May 6

Box Hill Hawks v West Perth at Etihad Stadium, 8.35pm

2 IMPENDING MILESTONES 

600 goals – Matthew Pavlich, Fremantle. Matthew needs three goals to become the 28th player in VFL/AFL history to kick 600 career goals.

600 goals – Lance Franklin, Sydney Swans. Lance needs eight goals to become the 28th player in VFL/AFL history to kick 600 career goals.

Most club games coached – Alastair Clarkson, Hawthorn. This week, Alastair is due to coach Hawthorn for the 221st time since 2205, drawing him level with Allan Jeans in second position for most games coached in the club’s history. The leading coaches in Hawthorn’s history are John Kennedy (299 games), Allan Jeans (221 games), Alastair Clarkson (220 games), Jack Hale (146 games) and Peter Schwab (109 games).

200 games – Brent Reilly, Adelaide Crows

Most Games Club Captain – Nick Riewoldt, St Kilda. Nick is due to captain St Kilda for the 168th time in this round, which will draw him level with Perc Bentley (168 games as Richmond captain) in tenth position for most games as a club captain in VFL/AFL history. The most games in history as captain are Stephen Kernahan (226 games as captain), Dick Reynolds (224 games as captain), Ted Whitten (212 games as captain), Michael Voss (210 games as captain), John Nicholls (188 games as captain), Wayne Carey (184 games as captain), Paul Kelly (182 games as captain), Danny Frawley (177 games as captain), David Neitz (175 games as captain), Perc Bentley (168 games as captain) and Nick Riewoldt (167 games as captain).

150 games – Jay Schulz, Port Adelaide

50 games – Jonathan Giles, GWS Giants. Jonathan becomes the first player in the club’s history to reach 50 AFL games

50 games – Brandon Ellis, Richmond

50 games – Chad Wingard, Port Adelaide

50 games – Sam Day, Gold Coast Suns

50 club games – Jack Gunston, Hawthorn

3 TRIBUNAL MATCH REVIEW PROCESS

The expected process for the 2014 AFL Season under the AFL Match Review system is that the AFL will issue a media release late on the Monday after each round detailing the penalties to be offered to players for incidents from that round of matches, or the reasons why no further action was to be taken.

The clubs and players then have until 11am on the Tuesday morning to decide whether to accept the penalty on offer, or whether they wish to contest the charge at a Tribunal hearing, to usually be held on the Tuesday night. The AFL will formally detail all instances on the Tuesday of whether cases will proceed to the Tribunal or not.

The following players were reported from the weekend’s matches:

Lindsay Thomas, North Melbourne, reported by umpire Jeff Dalgleish for striking Danny Stanley, Gold Coast Suns, during the third quarter of the round seven match between North Melbourne and the Gold Coast Suns, played at Etihad Stadium on Sunday May 4, 2014.

4 TRIBUNAL HEARING LOCATION

The AFL Tribunal is held in the AFL media room on Level LB2 at Etihad Stadium. The AFL wishes to advise that all media covering the Tribunal hearings at Etihad Stadium need to park in the B2 car park (entry off the Bourke St extension) and report to the Etihad Stadium security office to gain admittance via the internal ring road. There will be no access via AFL House to any AFL Tribunal hearing through the season, as our offices will have closed by 6pm each day.

5 AFL BYE ROUNDS

The first bye period of the 2014 Toyota AFL Premiership Season will be conducted over the next three weeks. The club byes have been placed at the approximate one third and two third marks of the season to best manage an even split through the course of the year. It should be noted by all media that two byes was a primary request of the AFLPA and players, due to season workload.

The AFL does not support a complete week off for the competition through the season and the model of 6/6/6 games over the next three rounds enables a team from each state to be playing each week, as well being the preferred option for meeting the requirements of eight free-to-air slots for Channel 7 and 10 subscription slots for Fox Sports from these 18 games. The second bye across round 18 was decided to be enacted over two weeks to maintain best momentum towards the finals and was determined to be a 5/4 split as the best option, against playing the matches as 1/8, 2/7 or 3/6 over two weekends.

6 AFL INJURY LIST

The AFL wishes to advise the following recent changes have been made to the long-term injury list:

Hawthorn - Placed Jed Anderson on the long-term injury list, with no replacement named at this time.

Melbourne - Placed Jesse Hogan on the long-term injury list and upgraded Alex Georgiou from the rookie list as his replacement.

Richmond - Placed Jake King on the long-term injury list, with no replacement named t this time.

St Kilda - Placed Sam Gilbert on the long-term injury list, with no replacement named at this time.

St Kilda - Upgraded Mav Weller from the long-term injury list as the replacement for Nathan Wright, who was already on the long-term injury list.

7 CURRENTLY SUSPENDED PLAYERS

The AFL wishes to advise the players that are serving or have completed MRP suspensions across the competition are as follows:

Completed:

Richard Douglas, Adelaide Crows. Two matches. Two matches served from round five.

Currently Suspended:

Nil.

8 UPGRADE OF NOMINATED ROOKIES TO SENIOR LIST

The AFL wishes to advise the following list changes have been made in the pre-season period under the AFL player rules regarding Nominated Rookie Players. Under the Nominated Rookie Rule, a club is eligible to nominate a rookie player who can play during the premiership season and finals series if a club has 38 players on its list (not including veteran players) and it satisfies the Total Player Payments requirements.

Carlton – Jaryd Cachia

Carlton – Heath Scotland

Collingwood – Ben Hudson

Richmond – Matt Thomas

Richmond – Orren Stephenson

9 2014 NAB AFL UNDER 18S CHAMPIONSHIPS FIXTURE

Please find below the fixture for the 2014 NAB AFL Under 18s Championships:

Sunday May 18

Vic Country v Vic Metro at Visy Park, 11am

Saturday May 24

SA v WA at AAMI Stadium, 12pm

Saturday May 31

WA v Vic Metro at Medibank Stadium, 11am

Sunday June 1

SA v Vic Country at AAMI Stadium, 11.30am

Saturday June 7

WA v SA at Medibank Stadium, 11am

Sunday June 8

Vic Metro v Vic Country at Visy Park, 11am

Saturday June 14

SA v Vic Metro at AAMI Stadium, 11am

Sunday June 15

WA v Vic Country at Fremantle Oval, 11am

Saturday June 21

Tas v Qld at Blacktown International Sports Park, 10.30am

NSW/ACT v NT at Blacktown International Sports Park, 12.50pm

Friday June 27

Vic Metro v WA at Simonds Stadium, 12.35pm

Vic Country v SA at Simonds Stadium, 2.35pm

Saturday June 28

NT v Qld at Visy Park, 12pm

NSW/ACT v Tas at Visy Park, 2.15pm

Wednesday July 2

Qld v NSW/ACT at Etihad Stadium, 3.35pm

Vic Country v WA at Etihad Stadium, 5.35pm

Thursday July 3

NT v Tas at Simonds Stadium, 11am

Vic Metro v SA at Simonds Stadium, 1.15pm

10 2014 NAB AFL UNDER 16S CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURE

Please find below the fixture for the 2014 NAB AFL Under 16s Championships:

Saturday July 5

SA v Vic Country at Metricon Stadium, 10.20am

Vic Metro v WA at Metricon Stadium, 1pm

Sunday July 6

South Pacific v World at Broadbeach, 9am

Tas v Qld at Broadbeach, 11am

NSW/ACT v NT at Broadbeach, 1.20pm

WA NW v Boomerangs at Broadbeach, 3.40pm

Tuesday July 8

WA v Vic Country at Metricon Stadium, 11am

SA v Vic Metro at Metricon Stadium, 1.10pm

Wednesday July 9

South Pacific v WA NW at Broadbeach, 9am

World v Boomerangs at Broadbeach, 11am

Qld v NSW/ACT at Southport, 1.30pm

NT v Tas at Southport, 3.30pm

Friday July 11

WA v WA at Southport, 9.45am

Vic Country v Vic Metro at Southport, 11.45am

Saturday July 12

WA NW v World at Metricon 2, 9.30am

Boomerangs v South Pacific at Metricon 2, 11.30am

Tas v NSW/ACT at Metricon Stadium, 11.30am

NT v Qld at Metricon Stadium, 1.30pm

11 2014 FOXTEL CUP FIXTURE

Please find below the fixture for the 2014 Foxtel Cup. All matches will be broadcast live on Fox Footy at 8.30pm EST.

Results So Far:

Western Storm defeated West Adelaide

Tuesday May 20

Williamstown v Aspley at MCG, 8.35pm EST

Tuesday May 27

East Perth v Norwood at Patersons Stadium, 6.35pm local / 8.35pm EST

Semi-Finals

Tuesday June 24

Western Storm v tbc, Venue TBC, 8.35pm EST

Tuesday July 1

Semi-Final 2, Venue TBC, 8.35pm EST

Grand Final

Tuesday July 22

Winner SF1 v Winner SF2, Venue TBC, 8.35pm EST

12 GOLD COAST SUNS EXPANSION COMPENSATION PICKS

As a reminder to all media, the AFL wishes to advise the following Gold Coast Suns’ expansion compensation picks MUST be used at this year’s 2014 NAB AFL Draft. Expansion picks were able to be activated and used in any of the five drafts in the period 2010-2014 and the following three still-unused selections must therefore be used this year.

Gold Coast Suns, round one selection. Received from the Geelong Cats (compensation for the loss of Gary Ablett) in a trade in 2012.

GWS Giants, end round one selection. Received from the Brisbane Lions (compensation for the loss of Jared Brennan) via a trade to the GC Suns in 2010 and then a trade to the GWS Giants in 2012.

Gold Coast Suns, round three selection. Received from Collingwood (compensation for the loss of Josh Fraser) via a trade to West Coast in 2010 and then a trade to the GC Suns in 2013.

Clubs are able to trade these selections during the 2014 AFL Exchange Period.

13 2014 AFL KEY DATES

Please find below the key dates for the 2014 season around club list requirements, Gillette AFL Trade Period and the NAB AFL Draft Process. Please note there have been a number of date changes which are underlined, including the date of the 2014 NAB AFL Draft:

Friday 1 August by 2pm - Draft Eligible Academy Player Nominations Lodged.

Friday 3 October - Gillette AFL Restricted Free Agency Offer and Unrestricted Free Agency Period Commences.

Friday 3 October by 2pm - Gillette AFL Father-Son Bidding Nominations; Academy Bidding Nominations lodged with AFL.

Monday 6 October 10am - Father/Son & Academy Players Bidding Meeting; Gillette AFL Trade Period Commences.

Monday 13 October at 5pm - Close of Gillette AFL Restricted Free Agency Offer and Unrestricted Free Agency Period.

Thursday 16 October - Gillette AFL Restricted Free Agency Matching Offer Three-Day Period Ends

Friday 17 October at 2pm - Gillette AFL Trade Period Closes.

Friday 31 October by 2pm - List Lodgement (1); Rookie Promotion to Primary List; Retained 2nd & 3rd Year Rookies; Scholarship Players; Alternate Talent Player Nominations, TPP Estimates.

Saturday 1 November - Gillette AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (1) Commences.

Wednesday 12 November - Gillette AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (1) Closes; Out of Contract Listed AFL Primary List Players Draft Nomination Form and Player Request for Removal from List Form Lodged with AFL; New or Expired (after 3 years) Draft Nomination Form Lodgement.

Thursday 13 November by 2pm - List Lodgement (2).

Friday 14 November - Gillette AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (2) Commences.

Wednesday 19 November  - Delisted Primary List Draft Nomination Form Lodgement; Non–Retained Rookie Players Draft Nomination Form Lodgement; Players Not Registered or Played for Three years Rookie Nomination. Gillette AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (2) Closes.

Thursday 27 November –(CONFIRMED DATE) - NAB AFL Draft Selection Meeting (Gold Coast Convention Centre).

Friday November 28 (new date)– Gillette AFL Delisted Free Agency Period (3) Commences.

Monday December 1 (new date)- Gillette AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (3) Concludes.  AFL Club List Lodgement (3) and TPP Estimates.

International Players Inclusion on Rookie List Form; Scholarship Players Rookie List Form Lodged; Father-Son and Academy Pre-Selected Rookie Nominations.

Wednesday December 3 (new date)- NAB AFL Pre-Season Draft Selection Meeting (11am, Telstra Webex); Notification of Pre-Selected Rookies Nominated on Monday November 25 if not selected in the Pre-Season Draft (11.05am); NAB AFL Rookie Draft Selection Meeting (11.10am, Telstra Webex).

Monday 5 December – Final Club List Lodgement.

Friday 12 December by 2pm - International Players Inclusion on Rookie List.

14 2014 LAWS OF THE GAME – INSTRUCTION DVD  

The 2014 Laws of the Game video is also now available on the AFL site for any interested media to view: http://www.afl.com.au/afl-hq/laws-of-the-game.

15 MEDIA ENTRY TO THE MCG

The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) wishes to advise all media working at matches at the MCG they should enter the ground through Gate 3, unless they have underground parking for particular matches. Access control at the ground does not allow entry at Gate 2, for AFL accreditation passes. Further, the MCC also wishes to advise that any equipment being taken up to the host radio boxes or television broadcast boxes should be taken up via goods lift 8, and not the patron lifts 5-7.

16 MEDIA ENTRY TO ETIHAD STADIUM, PRIOR TO PUBLIC GATE TIMES / COLLECTION OF AFL RECORDS

All media who require entry to Etihad Stadium before public gates are open can do the following: Media may enter via Gate 9 from Level B3 (carpark) and Level 1 (concourse) one and a half hours prior to gate entry time. There will be a staff member at each entry point who will check AFL accreditation and will grant access to the Corporate Suites Level where they can access the Press Box, Radio Boxes and TV Broadcast area. A match day AFL record can be collected (one per person) from the customer service staff on the corporate suites level.