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Taylor Duryea has played three complete years of senior football (in most weeks), and two of these netted him premiership medallions. He’s a handy footballer – not great, not terrible. He’s tabbed by PAPLEY as a general defender, with an emphasis on the general part. But only in 2015 and

For the second consecutive trade period, a former number one draft pick born in 1991 and originally selected by Melbourne has been traded interstate. Tom Scully, this year’s former Melbourne number one draft pick, has managed to find his way to his third club, for a lot less than his

Facilitated by a swap of late picks to acquire pick 68, Adelaide have traded in Tyson Stengle, another young player traded after two years on a list and a scant handful of games. Stengle is another fringe small forward bet for Adelaide, and will probably compete with Shane McAdam for

Tell us if you’ve heard this story before – a promising yet inconsistent player at an interstate club moves north in order to find a more regular gig in a AFL team. Gold Coast have added another older fringe player with a limited track record of at least one pretty

Two seasons after being pick seven in the 2016 draft, Jack Scrimshaw has been traded for basically nothing to Hawthorn. As we said regarding Setterfield, it’s hard to tell early whether a draftee who completely fails to break into a side is a slow starter or just a regular draft bust.

There’s a subcategory of players in the league that appeal to the obsessive fan – the type that watches Gold Coast games in early May. Amongst those types, Aaron Hall’s name has been long floated as underrated, and due for a breakout year (without ever actually delivering). Now Hall gets

Here’s as good a chance as any to enjoy the Sam Lloyd career highlight to date, an after-the-siren match winner from a 45° angle in 2016. Drafted as a mature age player in 2013 and hitting his peak so far in 2016, Lloyd was on a hiding to nothing staying at

Dean Kent has seemingly been left behind by the Demons as they’ve risen up the ladder, pushed out by other players with similar roles. His best year was in 2016, when over 20 games he rated as the 9th most valuable player at the Demons in PAV terms. That was also

Dan Hannebery used to be a really good player. Fairly recently, too. In 2016, his third All-Australian year, he rated via Player Approximate Value (PAV) as a top 25 player in the league. At his best, he’s a hard-running midfielder who gets in good outside positions by burning his opponent,

Most of the pure pick swaps between clubs occur late in the trade period with an eye to draft positioning. Clubs have considerations such as the quantity vs quality of usable selections, matching bids for tied academy and father sun players, and how many draft picks they actually want to