The hard-core focus on Jason Horne-Francis is a tale his fellow No.1 picks across the years can relate to,with the top draft status sometimes a poisoned chalice.
Former Geelong player and ex-netballer Erin Hoare is heading back to the Cattery after being taken as the No.1 pick in the AFLW supplementary draft on Tuesday night.
The Brodie Grundy deal which led to the stunned former Collingwood star joining Melbourne is one of several trades featured in a new Stan Sports Show Me The Money documentary. Grundy and leading player agent Robbie D’Orazio open up on the wheeling and dealing.
St Kilda will prioritise players from bayside and the peninsula in the draft and trades in the way Geelong and non-Victorian clubs have done as a list strategy.
AFL list managers typically prefer to extend their first-round draft picks before their second season starts,but there are still six players from 2021 yet to do so.
Fischer McAsey will leave the AFL after three years,saying he no longer has the passion to play at the top level.
North Launceston goalsneak Brandon Leary is training at Hawthorn in the hope of landing the final spot on the club’s list.
The management of former GWS midfielder Jacob Hopper advised him of their plan to call the Giants’ bluff and get their man to Richmond in one of the highest-profile moves of this year’s AFL trade period.
A Melbourne hotel stood down and then reinstated an employee over his involvement in the antisemitic online abuse directed towards North Melbourne recruit Harry Sheezel.
Geelong have added to their bevy of homegrown talent,securing three locals including father-son Osca Riccardi through the AFL rookie system on Wednesday.
Among this year’s draft class was a recruit who recovered from cancer,a youngster struck by lightning and a footy talent who stopped his time trial to help a fellow draftee. From the quirky to the inspirational,here are some of the best stories you may have missed.