Keep up with all the action from day eight of the AFL’s player movement period. Got a key trade question? Our experts will answer them.
The Demons have emerged as unlikely disruptors in which Victorian club Port Adelaide’s star defender Dan Houston ends up at by Wednesday night.
Interim Melbourne president Brad Green takes to social media to ridicule a claim that Clayton Oliver – the star player who is subject to intense trade speculation – had “cleaned out his locker”. On a busier day of the AFL’s exhange period,there were various pick swaps as Carlton secured Hawthorn’s first-round pick.
Collingwood confirmed the departure of their president,Jeff Browne,on the same day that Carlton announced a new deputy CEO – former Magpies football boss Graham Wright.
The Kangaroos know they remain outsiders in the race to land the Power’s two-time All-Australian,but they also know they could offer a strong enough deal to satisfy Port Adelaide.
Blues forward Darcy Vescio shows off Carlton’s pride round guernsey.
The figurative arm-wrestling between clubs has already begun as the AFL’s trade period prepares to officially start on Monday. We go inside the biggest deals – from Dan Houston to Shai Bolton,and Gold Coast’s coveted pick 13 – to see how they will get done.
The St Kilda defender will play for Hawthorn next year,while Collingwood,Melbourne and Gold Coast have also made free agency signings.
Carlton have sounded out Collingwood’s premiership-winning ex-football boss Graham Wright about potentially taking over as chief executive from Brian Cook in an orderly handover.
From Patrick Cripps’ record vote haul,to the stars who missed out,to the umpires and even whether the count itself dragged on for too long,we take a look at the key issues from the AFL’s night of nights.
Defying predictions of a tight count,and counter-intuitively to a season in which so little separated so many – and so often – Carlton superstar Patrick Cripps strolled away with his second Brownlow Medal.