Retiring Swan likely to win big payout for career-ending foot injury
Collingwood champion Dane Swan is likely to receive a substantial payout for the foot injury that has ended his career.
Emma Quayle joined The Age as a cadet journalist in 1999 and has been covering football since 2001. She has won awards from the Australian Football Media Association and AFL Players Association for her feature writing, and specialised for many years in covering junior football and the AFL draft. Emma's two books - The Draft and Nine Lives (the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer) - were published in 2008 and 2010.
Collingwood champion Dane Swan is likely to receive a substantial payout for the foot injury that has ended his career.
Northern clubs will no longer be able to activate "hidden picks" during the draft in order to access academy players.
The Western Bulldogs may have lost another defender to injury, with Easton Wood hobbling off during Sunday's win over Essendon.
It took the Western Bulldogs 20 minutes to put themselves in a position where they were almost certainly going to win this game. Maybe 25.
The Bombers will look at redrafting two of their best performing top-up players at the end of the year.
The first thing we needed to know was that he was going to make it, that he was going to live. It still seems such a ridiculous thing to have had to wish for: 33-year-old people are not supposed to have strokes, not the ones who sit at the next desk over. The next thing we wanted to know was whether Jesse would still be our Jesse and he answered that question for us quickly, too.
Essendon rookie Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti has become the latest player to sign on again with the club.
Things weren't going to plan, so James Aish got back to doing all the simple things.
When Michael Hurley got home from his long overseas holiday early this week his future seemed as uncertain as the day he went away.
Geelong has steamrolled Richmond in the last quarter to keep their top four hopes alive.
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