With five rounds of the AFL season behind us, very little has been cleared up by what has been shown on the field. At this early stage, the competition appears more even than ever, with no side undefeated or winless, and any team potentially competitive with any other on their
Continue reading »After a short yet tumultuous season, the AFLW season has come to a climax. Most expectations going into the season were flipped, and the final sees a battle between the perhaps overlooked Adelaide and the definitely overlooked Carlton. HPN rated Adelaide as the fourth best side coming into the year,
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With the halfway mark of the season in our rear view mirror, the finish line is firmly in sight. Due to the structure of the competition, zero (0) (nil) clubs are out of contention for the flag – although there may be a couple of eliminated sides after this weekend.
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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
Continue reading »That’s right, a live blog! After covering the last draft exclusively live from the side of a highway between Canberra and Sydney, HPN will cover this one LIVE and IN THE ROOM (specifically the lounge room). Key Resources Before you get into it below, check out the final Consensus Phantom
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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
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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
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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
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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),
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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
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