Australian Football League to Stop Publicising Player Weights

Published on January 17, 2024

Australian Rules footballers playing in the AFL will not have their weights listed in the league’s 2024 season guide after they decided that disclosing a player’s weight was inappropriate for publication after deeming it private information. Speaking with Fox Sport, former AFL player and media pundit Kane Cornes was opposed to the new policy. “Can you believe it? I was alerted to this on Thursday … if you get your book [AFL Record] and you want to look up what [Collingwood star] Jordan De Goey weighs, you will no longer be able to find it,” he said. The AFL appears tight-lipped on the issue, but the editor of the AFL Record, Ashley Browne, said the revelations were true, telling Sports Radio station SEN that it was a “new AFL policy to not reveal player weights.”...

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