We crunched the numbers and they paint a telling picture of just where the AFL’s draftees are coming from.
Family ties ran deep among the players selected at this week’s AFL draft,especially at Carlton.
Seventy-one players were drafted across the two nights of the 2024 draft. We look at each club’s haul and hear from recruiting and list managers to explain their strategies.
On a busy AFL draft night,one of the Whitlock twins finally got his moment. There’s two new Camporeales at Carlton after Ben and Lucas Camporeale were picked as father-sons and a Melbourne teen was overjoyed after Port Adelaide nabbed him.
The full list of players from the 2024 AFL national draft as they were selected.
Not many footballers’ idols are 83-year-old men. But then,not many footballers’ grandfathers are among the greatest goalkickers Australian rules football has ever known.
AFL top-draft pick Sam Lalor has put his hand up for Dustin Martin’s famous No.4 jumper and taken early comparisons to the retired Richmond legend in his stride.
The late Chris Toce convinced Richmond’s list boss that Dustin Martin clone Sam Lalor was the best prospect in this year’s AFL draft.
The draft decisions of Melbourne and St Kilda will be closely analysed over the next 12 months as they look to revive their fortunes in 2025.
The AFL draft has finally arrived,and The Age checked in with the three prospects we have followed all year to see how they are feeling ahead of the biggest moment in their sporting lives to date.
The number of Indigenous players on AFL lists will continue its alarming decline in 2025 as few players are considered for selection in the national draft.