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AFL Draft: Bolters emerge as combine takes centre stage
One of the most important weekends on the junior footy calendar has been run and won, with standout performances littered across the combine making ESPN's draft board for October a little clearer.
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Records challenged and prospects shine: Six takeaways from the 2024 AFL Draft Combine
Jasper Chellappah takes a look at the top performances and standout prospects from this year's AFL Draft Combine.
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WHO'S ON THE MOVE?
AFL trade tracker: Every completed deal
With the 2024 AFL season complete, clubs, players, and fans can turn their attention to the trade and free agency periods, with player movement the big focus ahead of the offseason.
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MADDY TAKES A STAND
'Hope you feel tough': Prespakis delivers powerful message to body shamers
After enduring body shaming online, AFLW star Maddy Prespakis delivered a powerful on-field response, using her goal celebration to take a stand against her critics.
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The Misery Index: Saints faithful among unhappiest sports fans
AFL DRAFT
A BOOST FOR THE LIONS
Levi Ashcroft and Sam Marshall: Lions' draft riches set to extend premiership window
While other players approach draft season with gut-wrenching trepidation, Levi Ashcroft and Sam Marshall know exactly where they are heading. And for the Brisbane Lions, their arrival will help prop up the premiership window, writes Jasper Chellappah.
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ASSESSING AT THE HALFWAY POINT
The best seven players at the halfway mark of the AFLW season
We're at the halfway point of the AFLW season, so it's time to take a look at which players have impressed most in 2024. Isadora McLeay names her seven best players of the season so far.
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Daisy Domination: How Pearce has allowed her players to flourish
The Eagles had hoped that bringing in former premiership captain and three-time All Australian Daisy Pearce would break a cycle of dwelling at the bottom of the ladder, but what has ensued is more than anyone could have expected, writes Sarah Burt.
CRYSTAL BALLING
Way-too-early predictions: Our picks for 2025 premier, Brownlow, and more
Lions to go back-to-back? Swans to lose it after another Grand Final capitulation? Who wins the Brownlow? It's time for ESPN's way-too-early predictions for the 2025 AFL season.
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Top Headlines
- Three-way AFL trade could send Houston to Pies
- Dockers waiting in wings as Baker mulls future
- Weitering signs extension to stay at Blues
- Hawks, Blues shake up trade period
- Swans lose All-Australian Gardiner to injury
- Waterman re-signs with West Coast until 2029
- Collingwood president Jeff Browne stepping down
- Ex-Pies footy boss Wright to be next Carlton CEO
- Worsfold back in Eagles nest as head of football
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Pass or fail: How every club fared with their pass marks in 2024
Before the 2024 AFL season kicked off, ESPN's footy writers put their heads together to come up with every club's pass mark for the upcoming year. How did your team fare?
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AFL free agency, trade period, offseason - FAQs and key dates
When does the AFL free agency period start? What about the trade period? And the 2024 AFL Draft? All the big questions for the AFL offseason are answered here.
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The 50 best AFL players heading into season 2024
The 2024 AFL season gets underway next month. That means it's time for ESPN's annual countdown of the 50 best players in the sport.
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