AFL 2024 round 10 LIVE updates: Collingwood Magpies, Adelaide Crows square off at the MCG

Neither side has made a late change. Harvey Harrison (Magpies) and Ned McHenry (Crows) will be the subs.

As the AFL confronts a crisis in the recruitment and retention of Indigenous footballers, it is set to tear up the map that allocates recruiting zones to clubs, which at present gives Collingwood a region the size of Italy that has never produced a player for the Magpies.

The league will also review the impact of football scholarships to prestigious private schools, as recruiters worry that young Indigenous players who leave their communities to attend boarding school are “falling through the cracks”.

These are just two elements of an immediate overhaul of the way First Nations Australians are recruited to AFL clubs, following an 18 per cent decline in the number of Indigenous players on club lists over the past five years. As the league celebrates Sir Doug Nicholls Round, The Age has interviewed recruiters, players and administrators, including AFL football boss Laura Kane, to investigate the reasons for the alarming decline in the number of Indigenous players being drafted, and what can be done to reverse the trend.

Already on the table is a revamp of the draft bidding system on Indigenous and multicultural players from Next Generation academies in this year’s national draft.

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G’day everyone and welcome to today’s AFL live blog.

I’m Roy Ward and I’ll be tapping the keys as we cover the whole day of action starting with Collingwood and Adelaide which starts at 1.45pm AEST at the MCG.

Please enjoy the hours to come.