Who will your club choose in the 2016 AFL draft?
The Age's draft expert Emma Quayle predicts who your team will select in the first round of Friday's draft.
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.
The Age's draft expert Emma Quayle predicts who your team will select in the first round of Friday's draft.
Gold Coast hold the keys to the first round of Friday's AFL draft, where Essendon will anoint the first No. 1 pick in the club's history.
Steve Johnson was convinced he would become a Hawthorn player ahead of the 2001 draft, 15 years ago.
Jarrod Berry was at home, playing on the PlayStation, on the day everything changed.
Tim Taranto won't have too much time this week to sit around wondering where he will be playing football next year.
Former Hawthorn recruiting manager John Turnbull lost his job because he picked Luke Hodge instead of Chris Judd in the 2001 Superdraft.
Andrew McGrath was born near Toronto and moved to Melbourne when he was five. Could he be Canada's first No.1 pick in the AFL draft?
The third of a three-part series ahead of this week's national draft.
The second of a three-part series ahead of next week's AFL national draft.
Draft expert Emma Quayle ranks her best 30 prospects in next week's AFL national draft.
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