by Andrew Gigacz I’m no Emma Quayle, but here are a few things I’ve spotted in this year’s draft: Port Adelaide have picked up Brendan Ah Chee and Nathan Blee. Is this the first time two players whose surnames end with -ee have been taken by the same team in the same draft? [Read more]
Recent AFL Rookie Drafts
January 16, 2011 by 4 Comments
It must be a terrible feeling on the National Draft day, when your name doesn’t get called out by any of the officials representing the 16 (now 18) clubs. There is hope a month later though, in the form of the Pre-Season and Rookie drafts. The fact is, most players taken in the latter draft [Read more]
AFL Recruit: Tendai Mzungu- One to watch
October 12, 2010 by 4 Comments
He may not have been the biggest name in trade week, but Tendai Mzungu has already accumulated a decent highlight reel in the WAFL for Perth FC. With 70 senior games to his name already, there may be another mature age recruit ready to make an impact in the big league. Thanks to Neil Allen [Read more]
AFL late breaking headline: Michael Barlow
April 19, 2010 by 7 Comments
by Andrew Fithall The Footy Record this weekend had an article on the number of VFL players who were drafted and are currently playing in the AFL. While the article highlighted 28 year-old James Podsiadly, one of the others who has started their AFL career in 2010, and who has also attracted a fair bit [Read more]
Footy: The lowdown on a massive trade week
January 26, 2010 by 29 Comments
Trade week is always one of the most exciting times of the offseason for an AFL fan, and the 2009 trade week was a particularly exciting one. I’ve decided to break down each of the 15 trades that took place during the week.
Daniel Harris speeds to another level in six sessions with the Cannonball
November 25, 2009 by 14 Comments
The challenge for me, Clint Youlden, along with Daniel, is to re-program his body to be more coordinated, run faster and more efficiently. This will give him greater speed and agility as well as enable him to run out the game better and faster. In order to do this, we will have to go into [Read more]
A blast from drafts past
November 25, 2009 by 8 Comments
By Damian Watson Well folks the 2009 AFL National Draft is fast approaching! It’s that brief moment in summer where the sole sporting focus shifts to AFL Footy just one more time before we enter the New Year. It is a day where the best young talents wait anxiously to hear the recruiters announce their [Read more]
Stone the Crows (or at least their recruiting policy)
November 17, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Lynda Morphett These are my ideas on how the Adelaide Footy Club could improve their recruiting (it probably applies to other clubs as well): Recruiting criteria: Our recruiting criteria perhaps needs revising. (Without seeing it – can’t say for sure!) More focus on skilfulness and decision making ability, and less focus on beep tests, [Read more]
AFL Draft: Fev sideshow further darkens footy’s big anti-climax
October 5, 2009 by 12 Comments
By Jason Feldman Just as Grand Finals are the climax of the footy season, trade week is the true anti-climax. For weeks the tension builds. Player X is being traded to team Y for pick Z and player W. Footy websites crack under the traffic of footy fans eager to scrounge any information on, say, [Read more]
General Footy Writing: 2008 draft to be considered among the best
July 3, 2009 by 4 Comments
I think in a few years time, we’ll be talking about the 2008 national draft as a draft to match the super-draft of 2001 which saw Chris Judd, Luke Ball and Luke Hodge start their careers. The 2008 top-10 saw the likes of Daniel Rich, Jack Watts, Jack Ziebell, Nick Naitanui and Stephen Hill taken [Read more]
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