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Matthew Boyd to play on with Bulldogs
Matthew Boyd will play on with the Western Bulldogs next year.
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.
Matthew Boyd will play on with the Western Bulldogs next year.
Hawthorn has described Jordan Lewis as a "contracted and required" player, despite the midfielder's investigation of a possible move to Melbourne.
Western Bulldogs midfielder Koby Stevens has told the club he would like to be traded to St Kilda.
Greater Western Sydney will have access to the second-best player in the draft after moving further up the draft order.
Carlton will seek former Blues forward Eddie Betts' speedy small forward partner, Charlie Cameron, if star midfielder Bryce Gibbs is to shift to Adelaide.
When Bryce Gibbs signed a five-year contract with Carlton, two-and-a-bit years ago, he said he could see the club winning a premiership in that time. Or, at least, getting close enough to smell one.
A wrap of the AFL's 2016 draft combine
Draft prospect Oliver Florent lost his father eight weeks ago. Everything he has done since has been for him.
Should Josh Daicos and Callum Brown get drafted to Collingwood together at the end of the year they won't have to spend much time getting to know each other or figuring out how to work in the same side.
Mitch McCarthy didn't realise how much he truly loved football until he was living on the other side of the world and couldn't watch a game on television, let alone kick a ball around.
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