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
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By George, another fringe player finds a home on the Gold Coast
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
Continue reading »Gold Coast really don’t want Jack Scrimshaw
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.
Continue reading »Have North found the Hall way to success?
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
Continue reading »Sam Lloyd heads to a club which Brian Taylor hopefully won’t call as much in 2019
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
Continue reading »Dean (Kent) deals done dirt cheap
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
Continue reading »Hannebery goes from Kings Cross to St Kilda
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,
Continue reading »Brisbane cleans up in a pick swap with the Suns
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
Continue reading »Mitch pitches to a Blue home, and Sydney quietly steals the deal
After requesting a trade away from Adelaide just two days after the season ended, Mitch McGovern was always expected to leave the Crows during the offseason. The biggest question was to where – a question answered about a month later when he tabbed the Blues as his future home. Mitch
Continue reading »What value does an undrafted mature age player have?
For the past three decades the AFL has struggled with how to boost new and struggling clubs at their time of greatest need. The league has experimented with exclusive recruitment zones (for all non-Vic clubs), various forms of priority picks, extra tradeable picks (such as minidraft selections) and the right to sign
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