ALTONA’S Sean Tighe faced an uncertain period last year after confronting several problems including quitting school in the middle of his VCE while his AFL dreams were unsettled after a quiet debut season for the Western Jets. To now, the transformation to him appears surreal. He finished his VCE at Caroline Springs Secondary College this [...]
FOR all the hype and media attention surrounding the first potential Sudanese AFL footballer, there were only shattered dreams at the end of it all for Majak Daw. The athletic Western Jets utility said it felt as if he had “lost something” on the night of his Mackillop College school graduation. Another Jet, Sean Tighe, [...]
NEW West Coast Eagle Koby Stevens was one of the sliders in the draft but it didn’t worry the Bairnsdale country kid one bit. The Gippsland Power co-captain was eventually an Eagle at pick 23 after being floated as a top 10 target throughout the draft. Insiders say Stevens is a steal for the Eagles. [...]
DON’T miss our live coverage of the 2009 AFL national draft from 6:30pm on Thursday night. Our roving sports reporter from The Sunday Age Brent Diamond will deliver his verdict on your clubs picks and have all the latest from the Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
BRISBANE Lions midfielder Daniel Rich’s blistering debut season has given self belief to several draft hopefuls in state leagues this season. For so long, AFL clubs have been patiently awaiting their draft prospects to blossom through the TAC Cup in three or four years from the day they are drafted. Now, players such as East [...]
FN EXCLUSIVE: A FIVE day escape on the Gold Coast was one last chance to let the hair down for Gippsland Power draft hopefuls Koby Stevens, John Butcher and Campbell Heath before Thursday night’s AFL national draft. The two young guns from the Power – joined several other football team-mates from Gippsland Grammar School – [...]
SOME under 18 players would argue that they missed out on AFL draft selection because they were played in the wrong position. Calder Cannons’ high-flying forward Serhat Temel was almost going to be another one. He spent the first half of the TAC Cup season playing as a roaming defender, in a role that he [...]
JASPER McMillan-Pittard is one potential draftee that is talking the talk. Most young footballers let their physical skills do the talking, but this Geelong Falcon impressed AFL clubs at the recent AFL draft camp so much so that some even talked him up as a future assistant coach. Since then, his interest from clubs has [...]
DRAFT hopeful Jack Fitzpatrick will have one ear fine tuned to the radio broadcast of the AFL draft and the other to his school graduation ceremony at Mooney Valley Racecourse – in what shapes as a nervous Thursday November 26 for him and several other Mackillop College class mates. Other Western Jets draft hopefuls – [...]
BRETT Goodes has felt the opportunity to join his brother Adam and Sydney’s dual Brownlow Medallist in the AFL ranks had passed him by. Now the prolific North Ballarat midfielder is part of a cluster of VFL players being hunted and interviewed for mature age rookie list positions in December’s AFL rookie draft. It is [...]
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