Reports are just the AFL getting it out their with an over cooked PP strategy. JB, Eddie and Kochie will arc up, then the AFL will come out with end of first round compo and everybody will fell like it’s the right thing. When in actual fact they were never going to give them after first pick compo.
From an EFC perspective I hope this is correct.
Carlton may be crap currently, but they’ve played deep in finals series within the past 10 years. Then they sacked their coach. I think there’s a strong case to leave them to their own mess. They dont deserve sympathy imo.
GC stuffed up the golden ticket they were given. Again, not much sympathy from me. I hold the entry of GC and GWS as being responsible for the premiership run of Hawthorn, and the difficulty that clubs have had in building their lists to fairly change the balance of power from the Sydneys and Geelongs etc.
Fark them all.
You ought to having a little chat to Jackets about him.
Yeah, jackets and I usually have different philosophies
Surely you’re happy with brayden rioli Ben!
Can you list any of these positives? (Without mentioning the NCAA, which is glorified slavery).
college educating the players that don’t go to classes?
Working off the idea that it’d be pushed back 2-3 years:
- State leagues become legitimately interesting and clubs saved from the slow death they’re all experiencing
- Better for the kids - too many are anointed as “footballers” from too early, have no time in the real world. This way they all do a degree/trade/whatever.
- Less draft misses - better base of exposed form at state level vs. senior bodies.
List sizes is the only way thatll happen. As long as clubs have spots on their list that they can devote to development they will back in the recruitment of younger kids who aren’t AFL ready.
Well they can’t do that if you raise the draft age and don’t let them draft kids who are 19 in the same way that they can’t presently draft 16 year olds…
On point 2, call me a cynic but I’d guess the day after the decision you’d see the announcement of the Connors Sports Management Elite Training Academy and scholarship program. No reason to expect top talent would see anything but more football.
AFLpa would have an aneurism.
16 year old aren’t adults, and when it comes to comoetitive talent acquisition being well paid at 18 is an act active proposition
Well in that case, those colleges are all just doing it out of the goodness of their own hearts, I guess.
Sorry I don’t understand what you’re saying
Forcing every gun teenage footballer to go play suburban footy for 2-3 years would be a great step.
Great for cricket, great for basketball, great for rugby league, great for soccer.
And of course all the money for suburban and TAC clubs, which comes from having guys drafted, would dry up completely.
Do you legit think professional footballers are doing it for the love of the game or something?
It’s not suburban as in park footy, it’s state league, and the quality and money involved could double with some of the talent playing there.
I’d firmly dispute the notion that you’d lose talent to any other code. People still love footy and would still play. You’d lower the quality of the AFL by a couple percentage points (arguably improve it by drafting less Lucas Cooks and more Haiden Schloithes/Kellys/Hibberds/Baguleys at 21) and you’d improve the WAFL/SANFL/VFL by 20%.
Then there’s the way it would improve coverage of the game and “story” to the draft and recruitment which the AFL would love (and I think would be a good thing in this case).
Re: Money, why does having Zach Merrett play 3 years in the VFL, earning probably $20k for his club through attendance and viewership THEN giving his club the $10k cheque for having produced him leave a club worse off than just getting the $10k cheque?
Where’s all your magical money coming from?
(As in this $20k extra per annum that Zerrett is earning for his VFL club - assuming he does decide to stay effectively a semi-professional footballer rather than chase cricket, where he could’ve probably cracked one of the BBL squads, if not the Vic squad)
The state leagues would easily double in size if they had that extra talent. < 2% of players would be lost to other codes. At most.
Some stats from the weekend in the TAC
Xavier Duursma 26 disposals, 1 goal
Zane Barzen 12 disposals, 3 goals
Sam Walsh 25 disposlas, 2 goals
Ed McHenry 18 disposals, 5 tackles
Toby Bedford 14 disposals, 6 tackles
Sam Sturt 14 disposals, 3 goals
Bailey Williams 10 disposals, 7 tackles
Zac Foot 9 disposals, 1 goal, 6 tackles
Will Hamill 8 disposals
Daly Andrews 14 disposlas, 5 tackles
Stefan Radovanovic 12 disposals, 6 tackles
Rhylee West 22 disposals, 8 tackles
Mitch Podhajski 21 disposals, 10 tackles, 1 goal
Curtis Taylor 17 disposals, 7 tackles
Josh Kemp 9 disposlas, 3 goals
James Blanck 14 disposals, 4 marks
Will Golds 27 disposals, 1 goal
James Rowbottom 26 disposals, 6 tackles
Jack Ross 25 disposals, 8 marks, 1 goal
Alastair Richards 24 disposlas
Liam Stocker 22 disposals
Isaac Quaynor 17 disposals
Jake Gasper 16 disposals, 6 tackles,2 goals
Will Kelly 12 disposlas, 6 marks
Will Kennedy 12 disposals
Riley Collier-Dawkins 11 disposals
Angus Hanrahan 11 disposals, 6 rebound 50s
Ben King 9 disposals, 1 goal