Max Gawn joins AFL immortals as 11 players earn maiden All-Australian honours

Each year, Australian football pauses to ask which players have risen above the ordinary and entered something closer to legend — and in 2025, that question yielded both familiar and new answers. In Melbourne on a Thursday night, the AFL named its All-Australian Team, honouring eleven players for the first time while Max Gawn claimed an eighth selection, placing himself among only seven men in the sport's history to reach that mark. It is the kind of night that reminds us sport is not merely competition but a long conversation between generations — between those who have already written their