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We are nearly at the one-third mark of the 2019 AFLW season (seriously – extend the season next year, AFLHQ), and already some extremely surprising and unsurprising trends have emerged so far. Let’s start with the unsurprising. Scoring increased in round 2 Last week HPN told you that the first

In the end, Melbourne didn’t hold on to pick six for long at all. Instead of holding tight in one of the (alleged) strongest draft classes in recent memory, the Demons have decided to flip one of the picks they received in the Hogan deal to address their biggest weakness

It’s often hard to work out whether a young player who struggles early on in his career is developing slowly or is just a draft bust. Will Setterfield presents a case as hard as they come in this respect. In his two AFL games to date, played in 2017, he

It’s always a happy time during the trade period where there is a crossover between the preferred homes of two players, and the implied values of those two players aren’t worlds apart. Melbourne had a need for a back-up ruckmen after the delisting of three so far this offseason, while

Some trades just don’t make sense at face value. So let’s treat this one as an investigation into why Port would make this deal. The Freo side is obvious, it should be evident here: In order to upgrade their second first round pick five places (they also have pick 10),

Tom Hickey, once a promising young ruck at the Suns, has been traded from being one of several viable ruck options at St Kilda to probably getting a regular game at West Coast next year. Hickey was probably shaping as second, third, or fourth choice for St Kilda into the future, given

We’ve decided to write these up together as one combined trade, but technically there were two different, almost simultaneous moves here. Each party here seemingly had something someone else wanted. If you want to yell at us that the above wasn’t the official deal… fine, here is each trade in

After much conjecture prior to the trade period, Jared Polec has made his way to North Melbourne – with some company in Jasper Pittard. Polec finds his third club, and has grown from strength to strength as a player in recent years. He was critical to their ball movement in 2018, finishing as

Free agency is something in that is often spouted as a threat to smaller and struggling clubs, but in reality the limited return of freedom of movement of players has resulted (largely) in much ado about nothing. And 2018 is shaping up as a particularly thin crop. Due to the