Jon Pierik
Jon Pierik is a sports writer with The Age, focusing primarily on AFL football, cricket and basketball. He has won awards for his cricket and basketball writing.
AFL
Inquiry has McVeigh 'alarmed' and 'furious'
Jon Pierik Former Essendon midfielder Mark McVeigh is angry with what he had been told had possibly gone on at the club in 2012.
AFL
Drugs inquiry 'extraordinarily confronting': Tim Watson
Jon Pierik As questions emerged whether Essendon's supplements program could have an impact on players' fertility, Bombers great Tim Watson, the father of club captain Jobe, says the drugs inquiry into a...
AFL
Training was bad ... and so was the match: Hird
Jon Pierik Essendon coach left to lament his team's lack of intensity in a bruising clash.
AFL
Moment of truth for Bombers
Jon Pierik Essendon's players told to be truthful when interviews begin on Monday.
AFL
Stop innuendo, Demetriou says
Jon Pierik AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has accused some clubs of engaging in "scurrilous innuendo" to explain Essendon's unbeaten start to the season.
Star value rising fast for Heppell
Jon Pierik Essendon almost certainly will need to reward him with a pay increase.
Players manage to hold their own in the bubble
Jon Pierik Throughout the supplements saga of recent months, Essendon has remained focused.
Analysis
Dons brave in the face of controversy
Jon Pierik As the Essendon players arrived at Perth airport on Saturday morning, it was difficult to know what to make of the situation.
Bombers pledge solidarity to Hird
Jon Pierik Essendon captain Jobe Watson says players have pledged full support to besieged coach.
Bombers rally behind their besieged coach
Jon Pierik Essendon captain Jobe Watson says the club's players have pledged their full support to besieged coach James Hird and look forward to the truth emerging in the anti-doping investigation.
No coin, should we give a toss?
Jon Pierik No coin for traditional pre-match toss determining which end the teams would kick to.
Dogs take it to the max
Jon Pierik Bulldogs register stunning 68-point win over a listless Brisbane Lions unit.
AFL
Tiger six-pack rates a mention
Jon Pierik If Richmond is looking for evidence it can feature this season in its first finals campaign in more than a decade, this may be it.
AFL
McVeigh blasts drugs claims
Jon Pierik As the fallout over the drugs scandal continues, the Essendon family began to turn on itself, with two former players at loggerheads and a club champion questioning whether the Bombers had conducted...
Fresh quad muscle strain for Zaharakis
Jon Pierik ESSENDON midfielder David Zaharakis could miss next month's NAB Cup after straining a quad muscle at training on Monday.
The face of football
Jon Pierik Nathan Buckley believes franchising is a good way to move away from constraints.
Watson changes manager
Jon Pierik Essendon captain switches management while Trent Cotchin divides his loyalty.
AFL
Cotchin is Tigers' best as awards keep coming
Jon Pierik and Caroline Wilson Trent Cotchin wins a second successive Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond's best and fairest.
Watson tells AFL to cut pre-season
Jon Pierik Essendon captain suggests a December 1 start date for all clubs.
AFL
Ablett scoops player award
Jon Pierik Gary Ablett continues to show why he remains one of the game's greatest talents.
