Nine players will join the AFL Players’ Association as club delegates for the first time in 2014, while a number of experienced campaigners will continue their work with the ‘PA.

There’s a healthy mixture of new and old faces; youngsters such as Gold Coast’s David Swallow and Tom Lynch will join the likes of Jimmy Bartel and Ben Rutten, who are entering their 10th and ninth years respectively as delegates.

Greater Western Sydney’s Phil Davis, who will represent the Giants for the third consecutive year this season, has learned plenty from his experiences with some of the more senior delegates.

“I find it quite humbling to see the passion with which the Players’ Association’s directors and delegates fight for the rights of all players,” Davis says.

“They are often striving to improve entitlements that will not really benefit them but rather improve the conditions for the last player on the list, or future generations of players, or those who have been and gone.”

In South Australia Andy Otten (Adelaide) and Tom Jonas (Port Adelaide) will be delegates for the first time, while Brisbane’s Brent Staker has handed the baton to young midfielder Daniel Rich.

At St Kilda Farren Ray will replace Ben McEvoy, who was traded to Hawthorn last season. Big man Mike Pyke replaces Sydney champion and 2013 Madden Medallist Jude Bolton, who retired last year after 325 games with the Swans.

West Coast’s Eric Mackenzie and Western Bulldogs’ Jordan Roughead will also represent their clubs as delegates for the first time in 2013.

The Players’ Association acknowledges and thanks Brent Staker, Campbell Brown, Maverick Weller, Matt Thomas, Ben McEvoy, Jude Bolton and Will Schofield for their contributions to the ‘PA – all were delegates in 2013.

A full list of delegates for each club can be found below the photo gallery.

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