There are the automatic picks, the regulars, and then there are the selections which will raise eyebrows - some of whom I do not expect to be in the All-Australian team at season’s end.
Melbourne’s decision to trade Jesse Hogan in 2018, then a 23-year-old key forward, was both audacious and justified.
He isn’t the first big forward to find sanctuary in Sydney, where only tourists from the southern states could spot him in a line-up or recognise him in a shopping centre. As with Tony Lockett, Barry Hall and Lance Franklin, he has relished the anonymity of football in Sydney, where Giants players are even less recognised than the Swans.
Finally a permanent midfield force, Heeney had been the best-performed player of 2024 until a few weeks ago; now Daicos is reeling him in – the son of Peter the Great having thoroughly dispelled the notion that he didn’t win enough contested balls – while Gawn, too, has been a colossus in the ruck and, unless injured,Bontempelli remains on the podium for the unofficial title of the game’s best player, which really should be like the golf rankings, which are done over two or three years, rather...
Stewart has been tagged this year and curbed to some extent, but remains better than his counterparts at rival clubs in that role of interception machine and set-up defender.
, the remarkably improved West Coast forward Jake Waterman , Essendon’s undersold version of Waterman in Kyle Langford and then the prodigal son of key forwards, Hogan.
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