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IMPROVED - DELISTING SCREEN Open Your List screen rebuilt. Every player now has their own Delist button and a View button that opens their full player card. Underneath each name there's a line showing age, career games, games last season, current rating, potential where they can
IMROVED: PREMIERSHIP CELEBRATIONS AND PRESENTATION Premiership presentation rebuilt from scratch. A full stage presentation of the Dusty Medal winner and all 23 players receiving premiership medals and premiership hat by the auskick kids followed by wild celebrations. Name plate
NEW - CROWDS and CHEERSQUADS Crowds are now made of individual supporters instead of coloured dots, with their own skin tones, hair and shirts Cheer squads set up behind each goal with waving flags Crowds grow for finals and are biggest of all for the Grand Final Crowd detail set
NEW FEATURE - GROUNDS AND STADIUMS Ground Creator (Options → Grounds). Add your own grounds, set the name, dimensions, ground type, grass, mowing pattern, stand colour and even add a cricket pitch. Every club now has a home ground and alternative Home Ground. 16 real venues inclu
NEW: Boundary throw-ins added (previous these were ball ups). NEW: Two boundary umpires now run the boundary and preform the throw-ins. NEW: Boundary umpire animations — one arm raised for a throw-in, both arms out for out on the full, and an arm pumping up and down for a lasso f
BUG FIX: A second goal or point was being awarded at the restart after a score.
Improved CPU decision making - no longer makes as risky handballs or kicks into a defender — wont handball to the man on the mark or kick the ball backwards into its own defensive 50 when no upfield options unless a teammate is completely free. Fixed scores not registering when t
Further adjusted the default team lists to improve overall balance, with refinements to player ratings, squad depth and the spread of talent across stronger and weaker clubs. Fixed low‑potential players generating with off‑role skills above their main skills, and lifted the weake
Player Career Interchange In player career, your fatigued player now returns from the bench at any stoppage once rested, instead of waiting for a goal or behind. Draft Pools Draft pool builder: you can now reorder players from highest potential to lowest. Draft now presents playe
Reworked and improved difficulty settings, including: Added Custom difficulty — Set your own difficulty via 8 difficulty sliders, with the ability to push past Legend Difficulty for an even tougher game. Bug Fix: Fixed goal‑kicking cursor speed being capped — it's now genuinely f
Fixed open‑play goals/behinds not being credited to the player when kicked with the kick button (as opposed to the shot on goal button). Report overlay no longer pauses the match — report card improved which displays on screen as game continues. Slightly increased the chance of "
Fixed rushed behinds being credited for goals: a team putting it through their own goal is now a rushed behind (not a goal to the opposition), and a deliberate rush from a distance pays a free kick (Deliberate Rushed behind) at the top of the square. Further Zone defense tactic i
New No. 1 Draft Pick award — Added award in players card for being the Number 1 pick in the draft. Zone tactic reworked — defenders stay accountable while the mids and forwards hold a proper spread zone (no more back line collapsing onto the goal line and leaving forwards wide op