Draft
AFLW draft 2024: Every pick from the first AFLW national draft
The AFLW’s brave new world of a national draft where players could end up anywhere in the country had an immediate impact. See every pick.
- by Scott Spits
Latest
Analysis
AFLW
What does each club need and who will they take? Your guide to the AFLW draft
Ash Centra will move from Sleepy Seaspray to the biggest football club in the land, with Collingwood poised to take her as the No.1 pick in the AFLW’s first unrestricted national draft on Monday night.
- by Peter Ryan
The AFL draftee who wants to banish ‘toxic masculinity’
New Giant Ollie Hannaford was a top-20 pick in last week’s AFL draft, but he has grander goals than just the ones he kicks on the football field.
- by Marc McGowan
Opinion
Letters
Our great, meritocratic game of footy’s shrinking talent pool
Readers discuss the number of AFL draftees plucked from private boys’ schools and argue it sells public school football talent short.
Inside the drama of draft night for new Hawk ‘Jason’ – and a swift lesson from James Sicily
Noah Mraz did not have to wait long for his first lesson as a Hawthorn footballer after experiencing a roller-coaster of emotions during the draft.
- by Marc McGowan
Opinion
Letters
Australia must sanction, not indulge Israel
Readers discuss the International Criminal Court’s issuing of a war crimes arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
‘It’s not often us – it’s the parents’: The staggering private school dominance of the AFL draft
We crunched the numbers and they paint a telling picture of just where the AFL’s draftees are coming from.
- by Marc McGowan
Analysis
AFL 2025
Like father, like son: Blues draft son of Cripps’ saviour alongside Camporeale twins
Family ties ran deep among the players selected at this week’s AFL draft, especially at Carlton.
- by Andrew Wu
Analysis
AFL 2024
Elite talent, depth and building for a flag: Analysing each club’s 2024 draft selections
Seventy-one players were drafted across the two nights of the 2024 draft. We look at each club’s haul and hear from recruiting and list managers to explain their strategies.
- by Marc McGowan and Peter Ryan
‘It was almost torture’: Tears turn to joy for draftees as Whitlock joins his twin in the big league
On a busy AFL draft night, one of the Whitlock twins finally got his moment. There’s two new Camporeales at Carlton after Ben and Lucas Camporeale were picked as father-sons and a Melbourne teen was overjoyed after Port Adelaide nabbed him.
- by Scott Spits
Every pick from the 2024 AFL draft
The full list of players from the 2024 AFL national draft as they were selected.
- by Roy Ward
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