Top-10 draft contender Josh Smillie is considered the second coming of Carlton’s dual Brownlow medallist Patrick Cripps,but not everything has gone to plan in his final year of underage football.
Set to announce a massive profit,the Blues will join four other power clubs who do not receive additional funding from the AFL.
Coveted would-be free agent Cam Rayner’s six-year extension at reigning premiers Brisbane has dramatically changed the player movement landscape for 2025.
There’s a blueprint which history suggests is required to be in premiership contention next season. What does that look like,and where does your team sit? We take a look.
We now know the ins and outs,the draft picks and the list spots that are available,so what will your club’s strategy be at the national draft and what players do they have their eyes on?
One last multi-club swap proved the deal-buster in a typically hectic climax to the AFL’s trade period on Wednesday night that delivered new homes for Bailey Smith,Jack Macrae and Matt Kennedy.
Keep up with all the action from the AFL’s trade period. Dan Houston becomes a Magpie after the deal that faltered last night was resurrected. Meanwhile,Liam Baker and Matthew Owies found their way to West Coast.
Carlton have not had a draft pick this early since anointing Sam Walsh as the dux of the 2018 class. Now armed with pick three,the Blues are chips in for season 2025.
Collingwood landed dual All-Australian Dan Houston in a huge trade involving Gold Coast and Port Adelaide that saw five players change clubs.
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.