AFL Record, 2nd Semi Final, 2010

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Blessed with an innate skill enabling him to consistently find the football, Barlow averaged 30 possessions for VFL club Werribee last season. He moved seamlessly into the top level, impressing during the NAB Cup and averaging almost 28 touches a game for the Dockers. He was a major factor in Fremantle’s strong early-season form. Barlow was ‘available’ for just $105,800 when the Toyota AFL Dream Team competition opened in February. When his leg buckled mid-season, he was valued at $454,600, only a few rungs below competition star Gary Ablett. The success of Barlow, Podsiadly, Hawthorn defender Ben Stratton (who played for East Perth in the WAFL before being drafted) and Fremantle defender

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They have become the circle-in-your-calendar games. Make sure you get there if you barrack for either club, or make a date with your couch and your remote control if you don’t. Since the Hawks upset the Cats to win the 2008 Grand Final, the clubs have met four times. Geelong has won all four matches, but by a combined margin of just 20 points. Not since the Sydney Swans and West Coast in the middle of the decade can we think of two teams that played a string of consistently close matches. And with no disrespect to the 2005 and 2006 premiers, the recent Geelong-Hawthorn matches were much better games. The first clash this season was on Easter Monday and it was as tough and as physical as we have come to expect from both teams. The Hawks lost Rhan Hooper to a torn hamstring, the

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the Saints, as last week’s thrilling second qualifying final showed. If Geelong wins this weekend, it will face the Pies in a preliminary final for the second straight year.

And they weren’t finished there, with ‘Jumpin’ Jack Riewoldt booting 10 goals a fortnight later in a thrashing Richmond started this season of West Coast. with losses of 66, 72, 56, 55, 39, All up, the Tigers finished 108 and 50 points. with six wins for the year, That tough run had historians two clear of wooden-spooner harking back to 1964, when West Coast. Fitzroy went through a Hardwick coached well. season without a win, His goal at the start and commentators of the year was to 3JDINPOE calling for develop the list the Tigers to IBT EFWFMPQFE B while trying receive special to win games NJEl FME UIBU JO B assistance at of football. By ZFBS PS TP XJUI this year’s draft. season’s end, NPSF FYQFSJFODF All the it was clear DPVME CF while, first-year he – and his coach Damien DPOTJEFSFE players – had Hardwick made signifcant FMJUF remained cool, progress. calm, collected Richmond has and remarkably stoic. Stick to developed a midfield that the processes, he urged his team, in a year or so, with more and a win would come. experience, could be Against Hawthorn in round considered elite; its backline is eight, that win would likely learning how to shut down the have come had Sam Mitchell opposition and generate attack, not tackled Shane Tuck just as and it has a star full-forward. Tuck was running in to kick what Riewoldt emerged from would probably have been the obscurity to kick 78 goals and winning goal. win the Coleman Medal. Punters But that maiden win did come could have scored odds of 1000-1 a fortnight later, against Port on that at the start of the year. Adelaide at AAMI Stadium, and The Tigers demonstrated how in emphatic fashion. quickly the wheel turns. The Tigers restricted the Power to just three goals 5IBU DPBDIFT in a 47-point romp, which was DBO MPPL CBDL UP followed by what might have HP GPSXBSE been the best rendition of We’re from Tigerland ever heard. What’s good enough for the under-9s coach in local footy is '*()5*/( '63: 5IF 5JHFST DFMFCSBUF now, apparently, good enough UIFJS l STU XJO JO BHBJOTU 1PSU for a growing number of AFL "EFMBJEF JO SPVOE coaches, who rapidly abandoned the comforts of their elevated boxes for the cut and thrust of the boundary line. Paul Roos started the trend a few years ago when he became the first coach for about 40 years to decamp the coach’s box and base himself in the interchange dug-out and, this season, several of his colleagues followed suit. (Coaching from the boundary, of course, was once the norm.) Hawthorn’s Alastair Clarkson did it as a trial and liked it so much he never went back upstairs. His one-time assistant, Damien Hardwick, started out at Richmond this year with a brief to teach, as much as coach, his young squad and found the ability to communicate face-to-face with his players during matches a valuable teaching tool. By the end of the season, Dean Bailey (Melbourne), Brett

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Several big names have been linked to the Suns, and we’re intrigued when coach Guy McKenna says he is “fairly confident� of landing the players his club has targeted, particularly as it is common knowledge that Geelong superstar Gary Ablett tops that list. Some marquee names may soon announce they will be joining Gold Coast. But it won’t happen until all playing commitments with their existing clubs are completed for the year.

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the AFL has also proposed changes that would see the ball hit the post and still be called a goal if it ricochets through the big sticks. Round 19 was a particularly tough weekend for goal umpires with three recorded errors, however, if you consider the previous season, when there were only three recorded errors from about 10,000 shots at goal, you can appreciate just how accurate goal umpires are. This year, there have been more errors than last season, due in part to more goals being kicked from within 15m, more shots

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at goal created from turnovers, and fewer set shots at goal. This is a by-product of the all-ground or ‘frontal’ pressure that is now a focus of all teams and an emphasis on keeping the ball ‘alive’, which means it can bob out of a scrum and result in a sudden and unexpected snap at goal. Of course, while many of us demand 100 per cent accuracy, the number of times the goal umpire makes a mistake is still marginal. And just maybe, human error adds to the theatre of our game. It certainly gives us something to talk about.

5IBU EFGFOTJWF QSFTTVSF JT OPX B GVOEBNFOUBM QBSU PG UIF HBNF When the Sydney Swans tackled the normally free-flowing Western Bulldogs at the SCG in round 21, Swans coach Paul Roos adopted an unusual tactic. He played veteran tagger Brett Kirk at half-forward with the deliberate intention of preventing Bulldogs defender Robert Murphy running downfield to wreak havoc with his pin-point passing. Kirk not only blanketed Murphy, but kicked two goals in the Swans’ 44-point triumph in a classic example of turning defence into attack. Roos said later he wanted extra pressure placed on the Bulldogs defence so it could not break the game apart with run and carry. Roos’ tactic, however, was not radical as most teams in 2010 applied defensive pressure close to goal, with Collingwood the master of keeping the ball

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James Gwilt, Sam Gilbert and Jason Gram working as one. However, the Saints also applied tremendous pressure inside their own 50 and finished the home and away season with the lowest points against total of any team – 1591 – with Collingwood next on 1658. Another defensive trend saw Fremantle coach Mark Harvey use the big-bodied Adam McPhee

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destabilise? Will it rejuvenate? Does it surprise? Do we play someone who has a niggling injury? Experience or youth? These are the thoughts that would have been bouncing around the clubs’ various selection tables during the week. Four-time Essendon premiership coach Kevin Sheedy told the AFL Record this week, coaches had to back themselves. “Pick the best team,� Sheedy said. “You pick the best team, you see what’s left. It is a judgment call, but that’s what makes the coach the coach.� Sheedy is known for dropping Derek Kickett for the 1993 Grand Final after Kickett had played every game that year. He had also demoted Ron Andrews

for the 1983 Grand Final and selected youngsters Mark Thompson and Mark Harvey for the 1984 Grand Final. The 1984 decision worked for the master coach; the Bombers won, Harvey was one of the best, Thompson kicked a goal and two leaders were born. Harvey, now the Fremantle coach, and Thompson, the Geelong coach, would have learned valuable lessons about team selection under Sheedy and somewhere in their minds, as they considered their teams for this weekend and beyond, would be lurking the tutorials from the 1984 Grand Final, when they were named on the bench but ended up playing key roles in the win over Hawthorn. Fremantle’s main weapon, Aaron Sandilands, hurt his knee last weekend, but what is the bigger risk for Harvey when his team takes on Geelong: playing an injured Sandilands

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aturday night’s first semi-final at the MCG will mark the 200th consecutive game for Brett Kirk and, in the eyes of someone who has walked in his shoes, the Sydney Swans co-captain is a living marvel. Former Melbourne forward Adem Yze, who played 226 straight games for the Demons, attributes Kirk’s streak to a combination of smart management of his body and “a little bit of luck�. Kirk, 33, has played 240 games for the Swans, 199 without a miss. He started the streak in round 15 of the 2002 season, a two-point loss to Port Adelaide at the SCG, and it includes 15 finals. He is set to become only the fifth player to achieve the feat and, should the Swans win through to this year’s Grand Final, he will fall two short of teammate Adam Goodes’ club record. Kirk finished last week’s elimination final against Carlton

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According to Yze, the mental challenge was not so much about getting up to play each week, but to play well each week. “If he’s like me, he probably wouldn’t know how many games he’s played in a row, but he’d have a fair idea of how many of them were good. You want to play as many games as you can as well as you can. “He’s never shirked an issue and always puts his head over the ball. He’s been an amazing player.� Yze, 33 this month, is still playing for the Shepparton Swans, who won their first semi-final last week in the Goulburn Valley Football League competition.

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all week because he thought he had no hope of getting leave from his army unit at Puckapunyal to play for Footscray. “‘I had been told I would not get leave, so I wandered into the camp barber’s shop to get my hair cut,’ Ted said last night. “‘The camp adjutant came in and said I had been granted a leave pass and had better hurry to catch the truck leaving for Melbourne. “‘I staggered out of the shop and wandered in a daze to my room. My mates packed my bag, dressed me and practically carried me to the transport. “‘Boy, I’m happy. I’m afraid I’ll wake up and find the whole thing is a dream, but I won’t be dreaming when I get on to the MCG.’� Whitten had started with Footscray that season, making his debut in the opening round (against Richmond) after is regretted it is not possible to being recruited from local discriminate in the case of the club Braybrook. application for special leave for It was his first final – and Private E.J. Whitten.� the first for many of his He added that trainees could Bulldogs teammates. have a weekend off a month, Footscray had played just five but that it was difficult to finals up to that stage – all first arrange transport. semi-finals – and had lost them Whitten, understandably, was all, in 1928, 1942, 1944, 1946 miserable in the week leading up and 1948. to the final, convinced he would The 1951 first semi-final, even be stuck at Puckapunyal. with the youngster who was However, Prime Minister destined to become one of Robert Menzies (a the game’s greatest Carlton supporter) players, proved came to his rescue #PZ * N IBQQZ no different, and overruled the with Essendon * N BGSBJE * MM Army Minister’s defeating XBLF VQ BOE l OE decision. Footscray by Whitten’s eight points. UIF XIPMF UIJOH reprieve came Whitten had JT B ESFBN just in time for a quiet game. 5&% 8)*55&/ "'5&3 #&*/( $-&"3&% #: 5)& "3.: 50 1-": */ 5)& him to rush to However, '*345 4&.* '*/"Melbourne to take he played in his place in the Footscray’s first Bulldogs line-up, winning finals, in being named on a 1953, when the Bulldogs beat half-forward flank. Essendon by eight points in the The Herald reported: “For first semi-final, and was a star at Ted Whitten, it was one of the centre half-back in Footscray’s happiest hours of his short life. 51-point win over Melbourne ‘Teenage Ted’ had been gloomy in the 1954 Grand Final.

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Q>II CLOT>OAP >OFBI PQBFK?BOD @IR?7 Bendigo Pioneers >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 191cm TBFDEQ7 84kg HP7 ““Tall forward who is quick on the lead and has an excellent natural leap. He played American football (gridiron) in Alberta, Canada, in 2009.”�

@>IIRJ PFK@I>FO @IR?7 Port Melbourne >DB7 20 EBFDEQ7 201cm TBFDEQ7 96kg HP7 ““Mobile tall forward who is a strong lead and mark overhead. He reads the game very well and is reliable in front of goal.”�

A>O@V ?>OABK @IR?7 Northern Knights >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 192cm TBFDEQ7 91kg HP7 ““Competitive tall forward with a great work ethic and strong hands overhead. He is a courageous player who was impressive for Vic Metro in the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, averaging 13 disposals and six marks and kicking 11 goals.”�

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@IR?7 West Perth >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 191cm TBFDEQ7 94kg HP7 ““Athletic tall forward who attacks the ball with ferocity and is strong overhead. He provides excellent defensive pressure in the forward 50. He was named in the Under-18 All-Australian team in 2009 and again provided an excellent marking target up forward for Western Australia in 2010.”�

High-leaping South Australian Sam Day is among this year’’s draft hopefuls.

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GLPE T>IHBO @IR?7 Geelong Falcons >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 194cm TBFDEQ7 87kg HP7 ““Tall forward with terri½c work rate and strong hands overhead. He impressed for Vic Country in the Under-18 Championships as a lead-up forward, averaging 12 disposals and ½ve marks.”â€?

IR@>P @LLH @IR?7 North Ballarat Rebels >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 194cm TBFDEQ7 82kg HP7 ““Lucas is a tall forward who reads the game well and has sure hands. He is a mobile player who can go back, and makes good decisions. He received Under-18 All-Australian honours in 2010 and averaged 14 disposals and kicked nine goals at the Under-18 Championships.”�

IRHB JFQ@EBII @IR?7 Calder Cannons >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 195cm TBFDEQ7 93kg HP7 ““Tall forward/defender with strong contested-marking ability. He is dangerous around goals and presents well on the lead. He missed the Under-18 Championships due to shoulder surgery but is now back in the TAC Cup.”�

QLJ IVK@E @IR?7 Dandenong Stingrays >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 196cm TBFDEQ7 90kg HP7 ““Strong-marking tall forward with terri½c work rate and ability at ground level. He was impressive for Vic Country in the Under-18 Championships, averaging 13 disposals and four marks.”â€?

G>HB SLK ?BOQLR@E @IR?7 Woodville-West Torrens >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 192cm TBFDEQ7 80kg HP7 ““Tall forward who is quick on the lead and accurate in front of goal. He has strong hands and is team-orientated. He represented South Australia in the Under-18 Championships in 2010.”�

G>JFB PLIIV @IR?7 Port Adelaide Magpies >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 192cm TBFDEQ7 92kg HP7 ““Tall forward who can also play down back. He has strong hands overhead and is a reliable kick for goal. He represented South Australia at the Under-18 Championships in 2010, kicking 12 goals.”�

P>J A>V @IR?7 Sturt >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 195cm TBFDEQ7 94kg HP7 ““High-leaping tall forward who can take contested marks and is skilful on both sides. He represented South Australia at the Under-18 Championships in 2010, winning All-Australian honours.”�

W>@ CFQWDBO>IA @IR?7 Woodville-West Torrens >DB7 19 EBFDEQ7 192cm TBFDEQ7 84kg HP7 ““Versatile tall forward or defender who is strong overhead and an accurate kick for goal. He is a smart reader of the game and represented South Australia at the Under-18 Championships in 2010.”�

@IR?7 Claremont >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 193cm TBFDEQ7 83kg HP7 ““Versatile type who makes good position and has good work ethic. He has clean hands and his pace is also a feature. He represented Western Australia at the Under-18 Championships in 2010.”�

JBAFRJ CLOT>OAP DBLODB ELOIFK*PJFQE @IR?7 Sturt >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 186cm TBFDEQ7 70kg HP7 ““Outstanding at winning the contested football and a very creative player. Also a talented junior cricketer who represented Australia at under-16 level.”�

G>@L? DFI?BB @IR?7 Lauderdale/Tassie Mariners >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 183cm TBFDEQ7 76kg HP7 ““Lead-up forward with good hands and goalkicking ability. Provides good defensive pressure inside forward 50. Averaged four tackles a gamee and an nia in kicked seven goals for Tasmania s s.”� the Under-18 Championships.”�

K>QE>K >E J>Q*T>QHFKP T> >QHFKP Pioneers (NT); SA) West Adelaide (SA) >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 186cm TBFDEQ7 75kg HP7 ““Smart around the forward line and has excellent hands and awareness. Represented Northern Territory in the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships this year and is playing for West Adelaide.”� @IR?7

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A>KFBI C>OJBO @IR?7 Sandringham Dragons >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 187cm TBFDEQ7 80kg HP7 ““Quick and excellent one-on-one player who can play many roles for his team. Smart goalkicker, booting 17 goals in 10 matches with the Dragons. Attends Haileybury College.”�

HFBO>K E>OMBO @IR?7 Eastern Ranges >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 187cm TBFDEQ7 78kg HP7 ““A quick and skilful player with great goal sense. Can take contested marks and impact a game. Vic Metro representative in 2010 NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, kicking seven goals, including four against Western Australia. Attends Yarra Valley School.

G>OOVA IVLKP @IR?7 Sandringham Dragons >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 183cm TBFDEQ7 77kg HP7 ““Agile player with terri½c ball-winning ability, footy know-how and endurance. Averaged 21 disposals and kicked 23 goals in 16 matches with the Dragons this year.”â€?

GLPE JBIIFKDQLK @IR?7 Murray Bushrangers >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 186cm TBFDEQ7 78kg HP7 ““Clever opportunist around goals and in one-on-one marking situations. Kicked 38 goals and 16 behinds in 15 matches this year. Tackles well inside forward 50. Averaged three tackles per game.”�

SFS JF@EFB @IR?7 Oakleigh Chargers >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 185cm TBFDEQ7 79 HP7 ““Well-rounded player who is dangerous as a forward and can play mid½eld or back. Excellent kick and reads game extremely well. Represented Vic Metro in the 2010 Under-18 sposals Championships, averagingg 16 disposals and two goals.”â€?

G>VABK MFQQ Geelong Falcons >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 188cm TBFDEQ7 72kg HP7 ““Player with good d reactive speed, agility and smart user on both feet. m mely Reads ball off hands extremely 10 0 well. All-Australian at 2010 s,, Under-18 Championships, d averaging 18 disposals and kicking eight goals for the carnival.”� @IR?7

>OOVK PFMLPP @IR?7 Dandenong Stingrays >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 189cm TBFDEQ7 80kg HP7 ““Strong-marking player who is an excellent kick for goal and very team-orientated. Averaged 15 disposals and kicked 34 goals for Stingrays this year. Represented Vic Country in the 2010 NAB AFL Under-18 Championships.”�

>>OLK VLRKD @IR?7 Eastern Ranges >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 188cm TBFDEQ7 76kg HP7 ““Outstanding mark for his size and very athletic. Wins contested ball and has pace and hardness. Represented Vic Country in the 2010 NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, averaging 16 disposals, three tackles and four marks, as well as kicking six goals.”�

?BK KBTQLK @IR?7 South Fremantle >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 183cm TBFDEQ7 76kg HP7 ““Strong mark and wins contested football. Uses ball well with hand and foot. Represented Western Australia in the 2010 NAB AFL Under-18 Championships and is an AIS-AFL Academy graduate.”�

M>QOF@H H>OKBWFP @IR?7 Oakleigh Chargers >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 190cm TBFDEQ7 78kg HP7 ““Well-balanced and team-focused and has set up many goals. He is also a clever goalkicker and has strong hands. He represented Vic Metro at the 2010 Under-18 Championships.”�

PJ>II CLOT>OAP GLPE DOBBK @IR?7 Clarence/Tassie Mariners >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 179cm TBFDEQ7 76kg HP7 ““Quick and agile mid½elder/forward who wh reads the game extremely well and wins wi contested footy. Won Tasmania’’s Most Mo Valuable Player award at the 2010 NA AFL Under-18 Championships and NAB Al All-Australian honours, averaging 25 dis disposals at the carnival.”â€?

QFJ JFIBO> Q @I @IR?7 Port Adelaide Magpies >D >DB7 18 EB EBFDEQ7 170cm T TBFDEQ7 72kg HP H HP7 ““Skilful and talented genuine small ffor forward in the Eddie Betts mould. Great goal ggo sense, clean hands and has been impressive im m at senior level this year.”�

J>QQEBT O>KHFKB @IR?7 West Adelaide >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 179cm TBFDEQ7 70kg HP7 ““Quick and agile forward who can win the contested ball and is capable overhead for his size with his natural leap. South Australian representative at the 2010 NAB AFL Under-18 Championships.”�

AFLK MOBPQF> @IR?7 Calder Cannons >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 175cm TBFDEQ7 82kg HP7 ““Powerful inside mid½elder/ forward with excellent disposal skills and contested ball-winning ability. Averaged 28 disposals in the TAC Cup and represented Vic Metro at the 2010 Under-18 Championships, with an injury curtailing his carnival.”â€?

QELJ>P P@EKBFABO @IR?7 Oakleigh Chargers >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 178cm TBFDEQ7 77kg HP7 ““Very smart and courageous fall-of-the-ball player with clean hands and neat disposal skills. Smart around goals and very impressive for Vic Metro in the 2010 Under-18 Championships. Averaged 22 disposals at 75 per cent ef½ciency.”â€?

P>J @OL@HBO @IR?7 Oakleigh Chargers >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 180cm TBFDEQ7 73kg HP7 ““Mid½elder who can play forward and use his excellent disposal to set up goals. Quick and strong overhead for his size, he also makes good decisions with the football.”â€?

@>JBOLK GLEKPQLK @IR?7 Geelong Falcons >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 181cm TBFDEQ7 78kg HP7 ““Quick and versatile player who can play the hit-up forward role or go down back. Very athletic and a long kick.”�

GBA I>J? @IR?7 Gippsland Power >DB7 17 EBFDEQ7 181cm TBFDEQ7 78kg HP7 ““Clever forward with clean hands overhead and at ground level and very good awareness. Super-smart goalkicker in all situations, with 44 goals and 29 behinds for Power and Vic Country at the Under-18 Championships.”�

?BK OBFA @IR?7 Bendigo Pioneers >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 181cm TBFDEQ7 67kg HP7 ““Smart forward with good anticipation, clean hands at ground level and overhead. Uses ball well and impressed for NSW/ACT in the Under-18 Championships this year. Brother Sam plays for the Western Bulldogs.”�

OBB@B @LK@> @IR?7 Perth >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 182cm TBFDEQ7 76kg HP7 ““Versatile type who can play forward, mid½eld or back. His ability to run and carry and his football smarts were prominent in representing Western Australia at the Under-18 Championships this year. Averaged 18 disposals at 79 per cent ef½ciency.”â€?

E>VABK V>OO>K @IR?7 West Perth >DB7 18 EBFDEQ7 186cm TBFDEQ7 75kg HP7 ““Very clever player around goal and accurate on the run or from set shot. Strong overhead and can also push up into mid½eld. Represented Western Australian in the 2010 Under-18 Championships.”â€?

C L I I L T > I I Q E B L C C * P B > P L K > @ Q F L K Ĺ? In the lead-up to this year’’s NAB AFL Draft Combine and the NAB AFL Draft, make sure you follow all the latest news on až.com.au, with updates on delistings and trades. The website will review every club (with a pro½le of each player), analysing what went right, what went wrong and what each needs to do. There will be live chats with the website’’s resident club experts, providing you the chance to ask the ‘‘hard’’ questions.

There is also a ‘‘Rate Your List’’ application (rateyourlist.až.com.au/), which allows you to make the call on who should be delisted or traded while also seeing what other supporters think. And keep reading až.com.au for in-depth analysis of the NAB AFL Draft Combine and pro½les of players eligible to be selected at this year’’s NAB AFL Draft.

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the inner sanctum. This was a wholly inclusive occasion. Swans legends Bob Skilton, Barry Round and Paul Kelly stormed the field just seconds after the siren had sounded and Leo Barry’s now-famous mark had secured the club its first premiership since 1933. The win was celebrated by generations of former players and fans, even neutral onlookers happy for somebody else to have a turn. The enormity of the achievement only hit Roos after the cup had been put on display in the club’s Sydney offices. “When you’re involved, you don’t really feel the pressure of the drought,� Roos said when asked by the AFL Record to reflect on the win. “Just like the other clubs, you are simply trying to win a premiership. “You’re aware of the fans’ frustration. You get letters saying, ‘You haven’t won one for 68, then 69, then 70, then 71, then 72 years’. Until you win it, you don’t realise what an enormous relief it is,’’ he said. “It really hit me afterwards, as there were people who genuinely "'- 3&$03% WJTJU Bm SFDPSE DPN BV

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never thought they would see the under-19s had won a premiership Swans win a premiership. I used a couple of years back. We had a to have a joke that all the funeral different mix in our personnel,� parlours must be full because he said. I used to get so many letters Shaw believes the pressure of saying: ‘I can die happy now.’� the occasion is more acute than In its quest to break the long the pressure associated with a drought, Roos believed his team long drought. was helped by being away from Factors including the football’s epicentre, Melbourne. additional media interest, “A benefit of living in Sydney the requests from family and is that players don’t feel the extra friends for tickets, the 10,000 pressure. When they go to the people turning up for a training delicatessen for their chicken session and taking part in the and salad sandwich, people Grand Final parade can impact a aren’t always talking player’s mind more than about the premiership worrying about the and the papers last time the club in the milk bar won the flag. * VTFE UP aren’t full of “Leigh HFU TP NBOZ the prospect.’’ Matthews is MFUUFST TBZJOH It’s a point very controlled. not lost on He had been A* DBO EJF football great there (on IBQQZ OPX Leigh Matthews, Grand Final 1"6- 3004 who coached two day) a number teams to droughtof times and it was breaking victories, his organisation that Collingwood in 1990 after 32 helped us,� Shaw said. years and the Brisbane Lions in “He sent us away on 2001, 57 years after Fitzroy’s last preliminary final night, straight flag, in 1944. after we won through to the Matthews argues that teams Grand Final. We went to a country based in non-traditional football club and got away from it all.� states have a slight advantage After being involved in two in that it’s “easier not to play the losing Grand Finals, Shaw was game� before the ball is bounced. determined to stayed focused He believes football clubs and not contemplate victory act as a “cocoon� by protecting until it was absolutely assured. players from the pressure and With about eight minutes expectations of the outside world. remaining in the final quarter He is convinced long-standing and Collingwood leading, droughts add no additional a nervous Shaw turned to pressure to clubs that have not Essendon champion Tim tasted success in a long time. Watson: “Do you think we’ve “I understand the history of got it?� he asked. “I think you the game but each match is a had us at half-time,’’ responded self-contained event,’’ Matthews a beaten Watson. said. Although a string of recent From then on, Shaw said losses can affect a team, the the match was “a bit of blur�, failures of previous generations but the real excitement came do not condemn a new later in the night, when the generation to the same mistakes. Collingwood celebrations were “For us (Collingwood), it was like a “rock concert�. the first experience of Grand “You can see it on different Final day as a playing group. levels. I remember thinking, The fact Collingwood hadn’t ‘Thank God, it’s over’ and it was won one in a long time didn’t a reward for organisation’. Then affect us at all,� the four-time there is the euphoria afterwards premiership coach said. that lasts for the next month or so. “The aftermath is great. There “I remember the joy on the are so many people you can enjoy faces of some of the trainers who it with, all these people who are had been there for 25 years or so overjoyed but, during the more, people who had started as event, it doesn’t enter your mind.� trainers in 1958.’’ Collingwood’s captain that day, While players and coaches Tony Shaw, was just one of the can wrap themselves in the three Magpies in the team (with “cocoon� and worry only Peter Daicos and Denis Banks) about performances, the who had experienced the pain of same luxury is not always losing on football’s biggest day. afforded administrators. “We had new players When Allen Aylett became from new cultures and our president of North Melbourne

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would end with the desired success. “The board members mortgaged their houses – our wives didn’t find that out for about 20 years,’’ he said, with a chuckle. But despite the confidence they were on the right track, people still could not believe success was finally about to come to Arden Street. “We were leading convincingly throughout the (replayed 1977) Grand Final, and you could hear people who had followed the club for 50 years saying, ‘This is it! This is it!’� Mark Thompson said the support of the Geelong administration was a key factor in the Cats breaking their 44-year premiership drought in 2007. The ability of the entire club to maintain its patience and stay the course was a test of nerve, but one Thompson said led to the victory. Early in his playing career, Thompson was part of Essendon’s first premiership in 19 years when the Bombers overran Hawthorn to win the 1984 flag. He joined the exclusive club of living Geelong premiership coaches (Bob Davis is the other member) when the Cats smashed Port Adelaide by 119 points in 2007. Thompson said the two experiences were different. As a young player, Thompson said he did not understand the significance of what the Bombers had achieved in 1984. “It was the most excited I had ever seen the club. Board members were crying and people I knew and respected were in tears. I have never seen ‘Sheeds’ (coach Kevin Sheedy) so happy in my life.� As Geelong’s mentor and as architect of the team that grabbed the 2007 premiership,

Thompson found the experience breaking Geelong’s drought both “exhilarating and petrifying�. When he took over at the end of 1999, Thompson knew he had to make the club hungry for success and desperate to win. He did not hide from Geelong’s recent past that included a string of heart-breaking losses in preliminary finals and Grand Finals. Instead, he used it as motivation, effectively creating a level of pressure on himself and the club to achieve success. Thompson invited Richmond legend Kevin Bartlett to address the players at the start of 2000. “He told us that if he was playing at the time, there were only five clubs he would want to be drafted by: Geelong,

Sydney, the Western Bulldogs, Melbourne and St Kilda, because it would be special to be part of a drought-breaking premiership,’’ dual premiership captain Tom Harley recalled. Harley said the 2007 team – despite not being part of what had happened in the past – was aware it had the chance to break a long drought. “To say it wasn’t on our minds would be a bit of a furphy. Supporters did remind us and it was massive in the media,� he said. “We had a barnstorming year and we did dare to dream.� In the rooms after the Grand Final, with the goal achieved, Thompson and the great Davis – coach of Geelong’s 1963 premiership team – shared a special moment. “Bobby said something funny to me: ‘I’ve gone from being the only living Geelong premiership coach to the oldest living Geelong premiership coach’,� Thompson said. It made both men – and a legion of fans – very happy.

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n the banks of the Darling River was where I found Richmond immortal Francis Bourke earlier this week. The Darling, co-incidentally, runs through the town of Bourke. Now 63, Bourke was about to tackle his next opponent – not a footballer, but the fish that swim in the fourth longest river in Australia. Bourke was on holiday with John Perry, a teammate from the Tigers’ 1967 premiership team. When I reached him on his mobile phone late on Monday morning, Bourke said the toughest decision he had to make that day was “whether I go for the cod or the yellowbelly�. Life after football has been pretty good for ‘St Francis’, the nickname given to him during his player career, from 1967-81. Bourke, from Nathalia in northern Victoria, just near the New South Wales border, was a courageous wingman who later played in defence, loved by Richmond fans and respected by all. He ran a newsagency in Canterbury in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs for many years after leaving the game, has always been a competitive cricketer, and loves the beauty of the Australian landscape. When you meet Bourke, you are struck by his honesty and the effort he puts into every response. No question is answered quickly, without thought.

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When discussing his football career, a frown might come across his face, his mouth slightly opened and ready to begin a sentence, but there is always a pause. His eyes seem to search for the right words, and then he always delivers thoughtfully. Case in point: I asked him whether playing in finals gave him extra motivation, considering he was performing in front of tens of thousands of people. There was a long pause on the phone. “Not really. As the finals came, so the pressure rose for me. But it was all about stress management. When God Save The Queen was played before a match, I was a mess, I was so nervous.� A surprising answer from a man with one of the most impressive CVs in Australian Football. Bourke played 300 games at the highest level, was a member of five Richmond premierships teams spanning three decades (1967, 1969, 1973-74 and 1980) and won the best and fairest award in 1970. He was Richmond captain from 1976-77, skippered Victoria twice, was named in the AFL and Richmond teams of the century (on the wing in both), was honoured as a Richmond ‘Immortal’ and is the last person to coach the Tigers to a Grand Final (1982, against Carlton). He appeared in 23 finals as a player, third-most for Richmond behind Kevin Bartlett (27) and Jack Titus (24).

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He played many of his 300 games while carrying substantial injuries that would have sidetracked the careers of others. But Bourke always seemed to overcome each setback. The leg. The eye. Two pieces of Bourke’s body, immortalised in the oral history of the club, and in pictures. Bourke broke his leg against Hawthorn at Glenferrie Oval in round seven of 1971. “I was given some kudos for being tough, and walking off the ground with a broken leg,� he told me a few years ago. But Bourke was back for the last six rounds of the season (all wins) and the two subsequent finals. Even more amazing when you consider he played another nine seasons. The bleeding eye, a result of an accidental collision with teammate Greg Strachan, against North Melbourne at Arden Street in round 21 of the 1980 season, looked gruesome when replayed. “I couldn’t see properly,� he admitted, but it didn’t stop him from kicking a goal. In a sense, the Toyota legendary moments television commercial made several years ago, in which Bourke’s courage and injuries are highlighted in an absurdly comical manner, provides a perfect snapshot of his football story. The Bourke family is a proud one. Bourke’s father, Frank, was a Richmond forward in the 1940s who had the football world at his feet (he kicked 48 goals in 16 games), until he suffered a serious knee injury. “He and Graeme Richmond (the Tigers administrator) are two of the most gifted people I ever met,� said Bourke, whose own son David made it three generations of Bourkes at Richmond, playing 85 matches for the club from 1995-2001.

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Here is an edited version of an interview with Bourke published in Richmond FC: A Century of League Football (by Rhett Bartlett and published by Slattery Media Group):

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can remember my first footy and my first set of football boots. They weren’t really football boots; they were my school boots with leather soles that my father tacked in the knock-in stops, which were prevalent in those days. My father was a mentor but he never came and watched me because he didn’t like watching football. He saw very few games I played, even right

through to the League level. I think it was to do with getting too worked up, he didn’t want to make a spectacle of himself, or didn’t want to become critical. And they’re issues I grapple with when I go to the footy, too, because of my profile. I wrote to (dual Brownlow Medal-winning Tiger champion) Roy Wright as a kid and he sent me back a photo of himself, autographed, which I thought was fantastic. Looking back, I am even more appreciative because of my own life and how it has evolved, I can

understand the trouble he went to. I was in primary school when that was h happening. I suppose Roy W Wright was the man for me. Graeme Richmond saw me p play for Assumption College, a and that started it. Graeme ccarted Jack Dyer around ba basically as the foot-in-the-door m man. But I always barracked for R Richmond because of my fa father – I didn’t need much ta talking or encouragement to come to Richmond. I didn’t want to play anywhere else but Richmond. But I wasn’t highly sought after, as Dick Clay and other people were. The first year I stayed at the Glensborrow Hotel on Wellington Parade. On Friday, I went over and worked at the footy ground as assistant curator. It was my job to pick all the weeds, starting from the end of the big old stand, right around to the outer to where the terraces finished at the Cricket Club members. It took most of the year to do it because I was only there one day a week. I

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can remember looking at the ground on television one day, because Neville Crowe did an advertisement, and in the background you could see the terrace half clean of weeds one way and completely overrun with weeds the other way. I was the only one who appreciated the background. I was determined. I think I had good understanding and instinct for the game. I thought I was quite stylish but, when I looked at the television, I realised I wasn’t quite as stylish as I thought. I was motivated and it was important to me to play and play well. I think I had more weaknesses than people realised and I tried to keep pretty quiet. And I think if people had known the weaknesses I had, they might have been surprised, like a battle for confidence, battle for self-belief, battle for motivation. I never regarded myself as a particularly gifted player. I just couldn’t believe my luck that the ball came to me when it did. As I got older and slower, I really had to minimise the opportunities for exploitations in those parts of the game that I had deficiencies in and maximise my strengths. My best season individually was 1970, when I played on the wing. I won the best and fairest. It was my first year living in Melbourne, playing and training. But I think I had more valuable seasons for Richmond as I was moved to the backline and started on players who were more important and integral to the opposition’s prospects of winning the game. On the wing, I had a physical advantage over a lot of players.

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I was given some kudos for being tough, walking off the ground with a broken leg. I spent six weeks in plaster and it probably took a couple of years before the soreness went. Some people say that was the start of me not being as quick. I’m not sure about that – my knee injury had more to do with that. I was only 22 when this happened. I think I played my best football at 24, 25 and 26 years of age. The ‘bloodied eye’ picture is, once again, a bit of a situation that looked worse than what it was. I got a cut when teammate Greg Strachan and I collided at Arden Street. He got me a beauty but we were both going different directions at the ball and were expecting each other to give way and I came off second-best. It was a nuisance while it bled, and I couldn’t see properly. It was crimson and, with colour * XBT television, all the EFUFSNJOFE * embellishments and heroics have UIJOL * IBE HPPE been attached. VOEFSTUBOEJOH I wouldn’t BOE JOTUJODU GPS have lost on-coming anything for UIF HBNF Hawthorn '3"/$*4 #063,& being a 299-game player. player. I’m glad I got I had the ball to 300. I couldn’t have and as I put my foot out to played one more game because I go that way, my foot slipped would have been in the seconds. and I heard this crack, fell over I’d run my race. I had made up and basically tried to see if it my mind that I was going to play would come good and it didn’t. It for Richmond for as long as I happened at the swimming pool absolutely could. But I elected end of Glenferrie Oval and our to retire before I played in the rooms were behind the goals at seconds. I just knew I wouldn’t the other end, so I just walked have got back because I wasn’t off the ground. At the time it was good enough anymore. I think sore; only later, when it cooled I was born lucky, and in the down, I couldn’t walk anymore. right place at the right time.

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the correct decision and means Geelong needs to win three tough finals on the trot to claim its third flag in four years. And St Kilda is now perfectly placed to go one better than last year, when it endured a shattering Grand Final loss to the Cats. The Saints’ four-point win over Geelong in tough conditions on Friday night provided a stirring opening to week one of the finals, which finished with an equally pulsating match on Sunday afternoon

at ANZ Stadium, with the Swans leading, trailing, leading again, and then holding on to beat Carlton by a goal. The Saturday matches weren’t as close, but were intriguing all the same. Spurred on by a frenzied home crowd at Subiaco, Fremantle jumped Hawthorn in the first term and cruised to a 30-point win. Young stars Anthony Morabito and Stephen Hill were among those who led the way. Indeed, there are exciting times ahead for the long-suffering Dockers fans.

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aybe it was This time, it was an the weather or errant Geelong that blew its perhaps it was opportunities when it mattered plain karma, most. The Cats bombarded their but there forward 50 in the final term but appeared to produced just 1.7, while St Kilda’s be some mystical element about solitary score was a crucial goal St Kilda’s heart-stopping victory to Adam Schneider – one of over Geelong in last Friday’s the bad kicking culprits from second qualifying final at last year’s Grand Final – at the the MCG. 12-minute mark. Certainly the weather created Schneider’s goal stretched uncertainty in the minds of St Kilda’s lead to 13 points and, most, including the coaching tellingly, the Saints defended staff of both sides, with several grimly for the rest of the quarter last-minute changes. St Kilda’s as the teams played out an Steven Baker was denied his amazing final 15 minutes. comeback game from suspension Although Geelong was cursing and Geelong substituted small a crucial free kick decision at forward Shannon Byrnes ahead the death, the Cats might have of tall defender Tom Lonergan been more concerned about before the match. Andrew Mackie’s decision The game to handball to an started in balmy unsuspecting conditions, the Travis Varcoe, 4BJOUT GBOT sort we expect causing the XJMM SJHIUMZ TBZ at this time turnover UIF LBSNB CVT of the year, that led to and ended Schneider’s LOPDLFE (FFMPOH in teeming goal. PWFS JO B rain which, as There was CJH XBZ predicted, had also the fact blown in from Schneider was able over the South to convert a set shot Australian border. from 30m, whereas three The second half saw minutes earlier, Mathew Stokes conditions reminiscent of missed a similar opportunity at last year’s Grand Final and, the other end. in the end, it was an eerily Paul Chapman kicked truly similar result. In that case, from a difficult angle four one team – St Kilda – had minutes after Schneider’s dominated for most of the goal and, from then on, it was night, only to be reeled in by edge-of-your seat stuff. the fast-finishing Cats. A long bomb out of defence Saints fans will quite rightly from Matthew Scarlett somehow say the karma bus knocked landed in the arms of veteran Geelong over in a big way. Darren Milburn, whose kick St Kilda had so many chances set up the most talked about to win last year’s Grand Final incident of the match. and it had to contend with a The ball bounced goal (Tom Hawkins’ in the over a pack and just second term) that most short of St Kilda’s believe wasn’t. James Gwilt who "'- 3&$03% WJTJU Bm SFDPSE DPN BV

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His dominance was reflected want to do with my life?’ in the voting. With every player and I knew I wanted to be in the competition voting an AFL player. on a 3-2-1 basis, Swan polled “Mick sat me down and said 972 votes. I had one more chance, that I Hawthorn’s Luke Hodge was on very thin ice and I had to finished second (with 609), show the club why they would followed by Ablett (562), want me around. Fremantle ruckman Aaron “I realised I had to work pretty Sandilands (283) and Geelong hard to get to where I wanted to midfielder Joel Selwood (166). be, and I never thought I’d get to After a slow start to his career, this point in my wildest dreams. Swan has blossomed All I wanted to be was a consistent into one of the AFL player and hopefully most consistent I’ve done that.� players in the Modest and "MM * XBOUFE competition in ready at every UP CF XBT B the past three opportunity to seasons. pass on credit DPOTJTUFOU "'- Selected for his success, QMBZFS BOE with pick 58 Swan, who IPQFGVMMZ * WF in the 2001 has played 148 EPOF UIBU National Draft games, suggested %"/& 48"/ from the Calder the improvement Cannons in the in the Collingwood TAC Cup, Swan’s team had helped him as an transformation from individual, saying, “it’s a bit easier bit-part player to the AFL’s to play well when you’re winning�. leading midfielder was sparked “It’s been the club’s best season at the end of 2003 by a stern since I’ve been at Collingwood dressing down from coach and, although I was there in Mick Malthouse. 2002-03 (when the Magpies “When I first got drafted, all made successive Grand Finals), I I wanted to do was party and didn’t really play so I don’t count have fun with my friends outside myself as a part of that side,� said footy, and it took me a couple of Swan, who grew up a Hawthorn years to take footy as seriously as supporter and a massive fan I should,� he said. of Shane Crawford and North “I thought I was going to get Melbourne star Wayne Carey. sacked, but I survived and then “I think my form has mirrored I thought to myself, ‘What do I the team’s form,� he said.

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here was a sense of unfi nished business when the Brisbane Bears decamped from Carrara on the Gold Coast at the end of 1992 to move into more salubrious facilities at the Gabba. Once the dog track was removed from the Gabba, it was clear the Bears belonged in the state capital, but there was always a tinge of regret that the AFL had moved from a part of Australia where the game had long flourished. Even though the Gabba was just 60km up the road, many in the area were quick to remind the AFL that Brisbane is Brisbane and the Gold Coast is, well, the Gold Coast. The area was also home to one of the biggest non-AFL clubs in Australia – Southport – and continued to be a rich source of quality AFL talent. Today, the list of AFL players from the region is headed by St Kilda’s Nick Riewoldt, but also includes Michael Osborne, David Hale, Dayne Beams and Kurt Tippett. Strategically, the AFL had long been of the belief

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that, in order to grow the game from a participation and commercial point of view, there needed to be a game played every week in the developing markets of Queensland and New South Wales. So it was with little surprise that on April 22, 2008, the AFL’s expansion process officially got underway, when it formally invited a group of Gold Coast business and sporting identities to form a board. Lawyer John Witheriff was placed in charge of the group, which was asked to start a six-month process of building a business case, with the aim of a new entity 5IFSF being granted a OFFEFE UP CF B licence to join the HBNF QMBZFE AFL from 2011. All this FWFSZ XFFL JO followed after UIF EFWFMPQJOH North Melbourne NBSLFUT PG had rejected a 2VFFOTMBOE BOE the following money into the development massive offer from year, ahead of its of sporting infrastructure in /FX 4PVUI the AFL at AFL debut in 2011. western Sydney and, in late the end of 2007 8BMFT By August 2008, just as the Gold Coast to relocate to southof 2008, two key move started to take shape, east Queensland. appointments were made – the AFL’s intentions for the Given the challenges the Collingwood assistant Guy vast western region of Sydney Brisbane Bears had in building McKenna was named coach were announced. their player list two decades and Scott Clayton from the Again, a steering committee before, the AFL was determined Western Bulldogs was was put in place to build the a new Gold Coast club (and any business case, while Allan other expansion clubs) would get appointed head of recruiting. In many respects, a club on McConnell, the former the opportunity to select better the Gold Coast was a no-brainer. Footscray player and Fitzroy players, with existing clubs to But the location of the 18th club coach, who had been heading receive adequate compensation occupied plenty of whiteboard up the AIS-AFL Academy for losing uncontracted players. time at AFL headquarters. squad, moved across to run the A working party drawn from Tasmania had plenty of the AFL and the clubs was claims, Canberra its backers and convened to shape the listthere was even some support building rules for the new clubs. for North Queensland. The By June of 2008, those rules AFL had been quietly investing were in place. By July, it was determined Gold Coast would 46//: 065-00, (PME $PBTU DIBJSNBO field a team in the TAC Cup +PIO 8JUIFSJä DFOUSF XJUI PSJHJOBM BEWJTPSZ CPBSE NFNCFST GSPN MFGU %BMF competition in 2009 and the VFL %JDLTPO (SBFNF %PXOJF "MBO .BD,FO[JF BOE #PC (PSEPO BOE CFMPX UIF DMVC T IPNF BXBZ BOE DMBTI HVFSOTFZT

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was in charge for the team’s first AFL game in 2012. Sheedy’s appointment reflected the bold vision the AFL had for its 18th club. Hardly an AFL hotbed, the League’s vision for the team was for the next 25-50 years and, in Sheedy, it had no better identity to sell the vision. “Kevin Sheedy has been a success as a player and coach and is without peer when it comes to engaging new communities in our game,� AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou said. “The AFL is serious about this venture and today’s appointment of one of the biggest names in AFL demonstrates our commitment to this region.� The announcement, while not altogether surprising, was needed because, of the two expansion clubs, Gold Coast had made the biggest splash possible. On July 29 last year, following a stealth operation that would have made any intelligence operative proud, Gold Coast announced star rugby league player Karmichael Hunt from the Brisbane Broncos would switch codes and play for the club from 2010 in the VFL and 2011 in the AFL. The story made headlines across the country and the exposure and publicity the AFL received was valued at several million dollars.

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We got Lance Franklin to hang up his boots. Now you can hang them at your place.

Artist: David Williams, Gilimbaa

Your chance to bid for a piece of AFL history. Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, Ashley McGrath and Adam Goodes, as well as Indigenous stars from every team in the AFL, donated their playing boots to be painted by Australian Indigenous artists to create the Qantas Boots and Dreams exhibition. Each player’s club is auctioning the boots with all proceeds going to the AFL Foundation to support Indigenous programs. For more information about the auctions, visit afl.com.au/qantasboots

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