Author: Sean

Of all the underappreciated roles around a footy club, the back-up ruck might take the cake. Most players can push for selection (at least at a pinch) in multiple areas across the ground, stoking irons in the fire across the footy department’s whiteboard. Not so the depth ruck. There’s often

Callum Ah Chee is perhaps sneakily representative of the current Suns era, where players are leaving less due to being “wantaway” and fleeing the club and the state, and more moving due to just not fitting into the new list building strategy. Ah Chee, originally from Western Australian, is not

It’s very hard to be the best in your position in the AFL. Brad Hill is very close to that. What is even harder to work out is how much that is worth. Triple premiership player Brad Hill departs Fremantle for St Kilda in a trade that sees him valued

Of all the Jacks at St Kilda, and there’s a lot, J. Steven filled the mantle as the best Jack at the club. He wasn’t a Jack of all trades, but he was close to a master at one. Jack Steven at his best is quite an effective pure inside

Something of an undeserved punchline after winning the notorious crapshoot that is the Rising Star Award ahead of Marcus Bontempelli, Lewis Taylor’s career has stalled at Brisbane. He is quite a small-bodied forwardish type who during 2019 fell comprehensively out of favour during the Lions’ ascent to the top 4. Taylor

Darcy Cameron, drafted in 2016, has sat deep enough in Sydney’s ruck pecking order that they used both the preseason signing period and midseason draft to acquire alternative ruck options from South Adelaide, in Hayden McLean and Michael Knoll respectively. Poorly timed injuries prevented him from senior gametime this year,

The Crows continue to trade on the second last day before the deadline, moving Tasmanian basketball convert (drink) Hugh Greenwood the to Gold Coast where he will contribute immediately. The 27 year old will form another part of the solid mature brigade the Suns started building last year to develop

One of St Kilda’s key secondary bits of business has fallen neatly into place in a swap seemingly tailored to Port Adelaide’s penchant for swapping around the draft order each year. Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate

Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate trades for fairness and balance. Elsewhere, you can read much more about the method and theory behind PAV. You can also read about PAPLEY, the projection method used to derive expected future PAVs, which