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Vic Metro dominate under-18 All-Australian team
Vic Metro players dominate the 2017 under-18 All-Australian team.
Vic Metro players dominate the 2017 under-18 All-Australian team.
Potential No.1 pick Cameron Rayner has again starred for Vic Metro, who continued their unbeaten national championships with a convincing win over South Australia at Etihad Stadium on Friday.
The next crop of AFL draftees did not disappoint on Saturday in what was described as one of the best national championship games in years.
Will Sutherland will start to have a better understanding of his place in football's emerging pecking order when he steps out for Vic Metro on Saturday.
Club recruiters are hopeful Will Sutherland, the talented teenager debating a cricket or football future, will make his debut for Vic Metro in the national under-18 championships on Saturday.
Matthew Kreuzer's re-emergence in the past month as one of the league's best ruckmen has shown why the Blues coveted him with their priority pick in the 2007 national draft.
The famous Rioli football lineage could continue at Richmond, with Maurice Rioli junior taking to the field in the under-16 national championships.
Darcy Fogarty, a potential No.1 draft pick, booted two goals but it was a rival forward with a match-winning point who stole the limelight on the opening day of the national under-18 championships.
While the top-end talent of this year's national draft is expected to be strong, depth remains an issue.
AFL clubs may have to be more cautious about ceding a future first-round pick this year ahead of what shapes as a "super draft" in 2018.
The key event of the AFL off-season – the national draft – may continue to be staged interstate from 2018, with four cities expressing interest.
Current and former coaches, players and agents supporting the idea of teens gaining education and life experience before entering the AFL world..
St Kilda coach Alan Richardson expects Hawthorn to "bounce back" - although many Saints supporters will be hoping that's not the case.
The AFL has officially confirmed the cuts to Greater Western Sydney's academy zone.
The inaugural AFL women's trade period appears likely to take place in May.
The AFL Commission has decided to strip Greater Western Sydney of its Murray region recruiting zone in a move that will shape the immediate futures of two highly-rated draft prospects.
Hawthorn are poised to become an early beneficiary of a recently introduced AFL rule after emerging teenage ruckman Tony Olango agreed to join the club's academy.
James Stewart shares a birthday with Joe Daniher. He hopes to share a meaningful partnership with Daniher in the Essendon forward line.
Former Collingwood premiership player Chris Dawes says he feels embarrassed at how his AFL career finished.
A change of scenery and culture, rather than a better chance at a flag, drove Brett Deledio's decision to leave Richmond, he says.
With the draft period over, Emma Quayle and Michael Gleeson assess each club's playing stocks and forecast the impact in 2017 - positive, negative or unchanged.
A "best of" side from two decades of the AFL rookie draft proves that those picked at the last chance saloon often do far more than just make up the numbers.
Drew Petrie will move to Perth and play for a 17th season after being drafted onto the West Coast rookie list on Monday.
Left without an AFL club for 2017 despite playing in a grand final last month, Xavier Richards was left "disappointed" but at peace according to his manager.
It's the last-chance saloon for prospective AFL players as clubs make their rookie selections.
Ex-Magpies skipper, now a coach with the Kangaroos, says he was unprepared for the club's bid for his son in Friday night's draft.
Five of the top 11 draft picks this year played for the Sandringham Dragons, with several others hoping to be picked up in Monday's rookie draft.
Emma Quayle runs the rule over each AFL club's new cohort of young talent.
Geelong and Adelaide are set to secure respective father-son prospects Sam Simpson and Ben Jarman at Monday's AFL rookie draft.
Canberra's AFL prospects Sam Fisher, Lucas Meline and Jordan Harper were over looked during Friday's national draft but their journey to the big time is far from done.
The AFL Combine has come and gone. AFL clubs and recruiters are now poring over the results of testing as they weigh up who they will pick in November's AFL national draft. Emma Quayle has profiled more than 100 players who are in the mix to join an AFL club
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