by Tom McConville | Jan 24, 2018 | Media-Updates
FORGOTTEN North Melbourne youngster Paul Ahern hopes to be a role model for future draftees who may be dealt serious injury setbacks. The untried former GWS Giants No.7 draft pick, who ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament twice in five months in 2016 before a trade...
by Tom McConville | Jan 23, 2018 | Media-Updates
Fremantle veteran David Mundy believes he can play every game in 2018, and insists he won’t be putting his “hand up to get off the bus” for a rest. Mundy, 32, is the third-oldest Freo Docker on the list behind Aaron Sandilands (35) and Michael...
by Tom McConville | Jan 19, 2018 | Media-Updates
THE RETIREMENTS of Tom Lonergan and Andrew Mackie have left a gaping hole in Geelong’s backline, but the departures of two of the club’s greats has opened the door for a number of emerging players to step up and make a position their own. That is the view...
by Tom McConville | Jan 18, 2018 | Media-Updates
EVEN by her own admission, Sarah Dargan is an “underdog” in Collingwood’s group of draftees and recruits. The forward was a bolter in last year’s NAB AFL Women’s Draft, selected at pick 20 despite not being invited to the NAB AFLW combine or...
by Tom McConville | Jan 18, 2018 | Media-Updates
IT’S 5.30pm on a Friday afternoon and Jack Crisp is sitting beside his phone waiting to fly home from the Gold Coast. His Collingwood teammates are catching a flight the following day but Crisp has booked an earlier ticket because he misses his little girl. She is...