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Matthew Lobbe had a brief period where he was Port Adelaide’s first choice ruckman in their run to a narrow preliminary final loss. He also played most of 2015 sharing the duties with Ryder, but since then, injury and a tactical shift have seen him pushed out. Port have come to

Nathan Wilson is a very good half-back and will likely contend for All-Australian honours in the coming years. Wilson is young, has one of the best kicks in the competition, is pretty damn quick and is also versatile on the field. Wilson has really broken out in the last 18

Sam Gibson gets a chance to continue his career if he’s good enough to play senior footy in the Crows midfield. He will likely play a lot of SANFL footy. He’s 31, he’s probably not got a lot of footy left in him, but he’s likely got some. Given North just

Logan Austin and Aaron Young have four place names between them, and now they both head to new clubs in a busy trade period for Port. St Kilda acquire the fringe Canberran defender Austin while sometime best-22 small forward Aaron Young heads to the Suns. Both go for late future picks. Of the

There’s more deals to come, but Gold Coast have swapped picks with West Coast in a manner that suggests they simply didn’t want the collection of second round picks they accrued last year. The prize for the Suns is a future first round pick and to obtain it they turned

Bryce Gibbs is a very good footballer, perhaps even a great one, and the Crows think he is the missing piece on the march towards the 2018 flag. Gibbs is 28 and has signed a 4 year deal, so we can assume he’s going to play for at least that

Harrison Wigg was drafted at pick 35 and has been on the Crows’ list for 3 years. He seems to have been a pretty decent midfielder in the SANFL, but his complete lack of exposure gives us nothing to work with in terms of a future projection. For the purposes

The injury riddled former number 38 draft pick Harley Balic has gone to Melbourne in exchange for the modest sum of pick 66. This is a “go-home” trade that was flagged in July, and is really a pretty understandable request given the isolation players can experience doing extended stints of injury rehab.

HPN are huge fans of Jack Watts, both his on-field attributes and especially of everything about the off-field phenom that is Jack Watts. He is not, however, worth a prince’s ransom at the trade table and once he decided on Port Adelaide, it appears that the two sides of the

The swap for Adam Saad turned out to be a fairly straightforward one, pretty much in line with the HPN valuation of the speedy halfback. Saad is a 24 year old role-player for the Suns, a useful component off half-back. He was Gold Coast’s 9th most valuable player this season and projects to about