by Tom McConville | Feb 15, 2017 | Media-Updates
TOM Lynch may be the Gold Coast player on everybody’s lips. But his two-metre forward line companion may prove to be the club’s biggest star — and the game’s best big man. Peter Wright has not only been rated by Champion Data as the best 20-year-old in the...
by Tom McConville | Feb 8, 2017 | Media-Updates
Jarryn Geary will lead the Saints into a new era, announced as the club’s 62nd captain. Drafted to the club as a rookie in 2006, Geary was elevated to the senior list in 2008 and now ranks among the likes of Kieran Jack, Nick Maxwell and Matthew Boyd as former rookies...
by Tom McConville | Feb 7, 2017 | Media-Updates
RICHMOND forward Ben Lennon says he has “a lot to prove” after failing to cement his spot since being selected as a first-round selection in 2013. Lennon, 21, has been acknowledged as a player of much talent but has failed to play more than nine games in a...
by Tom McConville | Feb 5, 2017 | Media-Updates
PORT Adelaide draftee Willem Drew’s first pre-season as an AFL player is going just as his cousin, Essendon defender Marty Gleeson, predicted. “He said, ‘You’re going to be knackered most of the time – all you do is train, eat and...
by Tom McConville | Feb 3, 2017 | Media-Updates
An uninterrupted pre-season is what every AFL player hopes for, but it takes on even greater significance for dependable Richmond defender Dylan Grimes, who has endured more than his fair share of injuries since debuting at senior level with the Tigers in the final...
