Among the 106 de-listed ex-AFL players one is hoping to pick up an NRL contract, another is aiming to become a tight end in the NFL, while former West Coast Eagle goal-kicking record holder Josh Kennedy is opening a distillery and cellar door in Busselton, Western Australia.
Kyabram will have its own share of ex-AFL talent when Toby Wooller and Will Golds join the new faces at Kyabram Football Club this season.
Atu Bosenavulagi, deslisted by North Melbourne after a brief stay with Collingwood, is seeking a professional rugby league contract. He was born in Fiji, but has never played the sport — although his father did play rugby (union) in Fiji.
Bosenavulagi is the great nephew of Collingwood cheer squad leader Joffa Corfe.
Delisted Adelaide Crow Ben Davis has started an Indigenous artwork business, while Essendon’s Devon Smith will coach Lara in the Geelong Football League.
Fremantle games record holder David Mundy has been linked to a role at Christ Church Grammar School’s football program in WA, while premiership captain Joel Selwood will famously join the Melbourne Storm as a leadership coach.
Former Gold Coast Sun Patrick Murtagh, at 196cm and 90kg, will be beefing up as he hopes to become a tight end under the NFL International Player Pathway Program.
Former Hawthorn captain and ruckman, Ben McEvoy, will return to the family farm in the mountains of Dederang and another former AFL club captain, Jarryn Geary, has joined Eaglehawk in the Bendigo Football League.
Popular former Essendon and St Kilda ruckman Paddy Ryder will play for Devon Meadows in the Morning Peninsula Football League.
– Ground breaking AFLW legend Daisy Pearce also announced her retirement from football last week, bringing to a full stop a career that started with an exhibition match in 2013.
The Bright born mother of twins played in Melbourne’s AFLW premiership last season.
Before AFLW started, in 2017, Pearce earned a Bachelor of Nursing and Midwifery and for a time worked at Box Hill Hospital. She now lives at Porepunkah, near Bright.
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