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Draft
Free agents, pick swaps, salary dumps: What does AFL trade jargon mean?
What do you call a free agent who isn’t actually free? What is a salary dump? And will pick purchasing become a feature in the AFL?
- by Peter Ryan and Jon Pierik
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Money Talks
AFL 2024
Money Talks: When will the bid come for Lions’ father-son Levi Ashcroft?
Brisbane Lions father-son prospect Levi Ashcroft could become the second player to attract a bid at pick one of the national draft in November as clubs start to drill down on the draft pool.
- by Peter Ryan
Lions have faith Joe Daniher will inform them on future at right time
The Brisbane Lions are confident that if Joe Daniher wants to discuss his future with the club he will do so at the right time.
- by Peter Ryan and Jake Niall
The speech that inspired the Lions to a premiership
It was a player who was not in the final 23 who provided the team with the pivotal moment off the field to inspire his teammates in their pursuit of a premiership.
- by Peter Ryan
‘How did that happen?’ Will Ashcroft stuns his triple flag-winning dad
Will Ashcroft became the second-youngest winner of the Norm Smith Medal when he had 30 touches in a grand final at the age of just 20 years and 145 days.
- by Peter Ryan
What makes big Joe Daniher tick? The real life of football’s biggest character
Joe Daniher is a brilliant footballer who thrills crowds in big games and then retreats to a quiet life as a father-of-two in a sleepy beachside hamlet.
- by Peter Ryan
Money Talks
AFL 2024
The state of play for key targets ahead of trade period, and the players at your club without a deal
In-demand defender Dan Houston has asked Port to trade him to Victoria, and two clubs in particular are leading the race for the All-Australian.
- by Marc McGowan and Peter Ryan
‘Keep clear of the beer. It’s no good’: Brownlow letters revealed as medal turns 100
Charles Brownlow was more than a football player then administrator. He was a football diehard who was the forerunner of a coach, a man who lived the principles that built the game.
- by Peter Ryan
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
‘A lot of people wrote us off’: How Lions proved footy world wrong
Charlie Cameron said the Lions had taken pleasure in silencing those who wrote them off after their slow start.
- by Peter Ryan, Jake Niall and Marc McGowan
Sibling switch: The Cats brothers who have swapped places
For his first four seasons, Zach Guthrie toiled away on the fringes of selection.
- by Peter Ryan
Exclusive
AFL 2024
‘That didn’t add up’: Merrett on Stringer, Saints and that Brad Scott meeting
The champion Bomber lashed out at suggestions he would put his personal relationships with teammates ahead of the club’s interests.
- by Peter Ryan
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