Port Adelaide has - by the long-term injury to Mitch Georgiades - the capacity to enter the AFL mid-season draft on Wednesday. Recruiting manager Geoff Parker and his crew have found diamonds in the rough outside the national draft.
Rochester’s three-point win against Kyabram on Sunday ticked the first of three important boxes as the Tigers eye a place in the Goulburn Valley League’s first final.
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Leading up to Wednesday, June 2 all 18 AFL clubs will be frantically preparing for the opportunity to bring new talent onto their lists from the VFL, SANFL and WAFL.
Of course, there are several clubs that planned for this eventuality by leaving rookie spots open on their lists, while other clubs have had players go onto the long-term injury list having been determined to be unfit to return in 2021.
Retirements and disciplinary delistings have also opened space for clubs, with the reduced list sizes leaving several clubs with lengthening injury issues if patterns continue to deteriorate.
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Can you believe it? We’re just two days away from the footy season kicking off.
That means it’s time for the fourth and final piece in my preview series, where I’ll be examining last year’s top four. Share
A surprising fact I discovered while writing this piece is that 2020 was the first season since 2014 that a top-four side from the previous year
didn’t crash out of the finals altogether.
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