The 2023 AFLW season fixture has finally been released, with players, clubs and fans quickly breaking down the schedule. The fixture drop was delayed to a mere six weeks before the first siren of the season. Due to still-unresolved and seemingly very difficult labour bargaining, the season remains at just
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Final day featuring like a whole bunch of dudes
After a hectic short time the AFL Trade Period (including free agency) is effectively over for another year. There’s still delisted free agents who can move and the trading of picks during designated periods (including on draft day/s), but that’s of little consequence right now. A lot happened during the
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 7 featuring Jack Gunston, Jack Bowes and not-Jack Grundy
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here as the day progresses to get our take on the day’s “action”. Jack Gunston traded to Brisbane Premiership winning biggish forward Jack Gunston was an unrestricted free agent coming into the free agency period. But,
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The 2022 AFL MEGATRADE – or when to trade pick 1
In 2018, after completing a bunch of research on Footballistics, HPN wrote a piece designed as advice to Carlton as to when trade pick 1. After all, it had been a fair while since the last trade of that valuable first pick in 2001, and teams may have been out
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 6 featuring Luke Jackson, Izak Rankine, Toby Bedford and Will Setterfield
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here each day to get our take on the “action”. Today was quite possibly one of the biggest non-deadline days in trade period history. The biggest trade so far in V/AFL history (in terms of volume
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 5 featuring the free agency roundup and Geelong doing things
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here each day to get our take on the “action”. Free Agency Roundup Five players found new homes under the first iteration of free agency in 2022, with restricted and unrestricted free agency closing today. Later
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 4 featuring only Josh Corbett
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here as the day progresses to get our take on the day’s “action”. Only one trade today as several start to creep towards completion. Beyond the usually climactic final day, there may be a subtle cascading
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 3 featuring Acres of Berry
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here as the day progresses to get our take on the day’s “action”. North’s compensation picks do their job Darcy Tucker and Griffin Logue are the next two Fremantle players after Blake Acres to find new
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2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 2 featuring Blake Acres
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here as the day progresses to get our take on the day’s “action”. Only one trade involving a player today, with several others nearing completion. As a result, Blake Acres was the star of today’s player
Continue reading »2022 AFL Trade Period – Day 1 featuring Bobby Hill and Tim Taranto
HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day. Check back here as the day progresses to get our take on the day’s “action”. It took a few hours, but the 2022 AFL Trade Period finally kicked off in earnest with two trades involving GWS dropping almost
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