10 International footballers/athletes invited to National Draft Combine

[carltonsux]

thank christ.

 

[Norfolk & Clew]

I'm all for the AFL's little exercises in promotion, but when the spots of actual footballers are getting taken in blatant marketing ploys it's a bit farcical. You'd think they'd have learned from Folau, but apparently not.

This is a bit different to Folau, grab them on a rookie spot, what is it $60k p/a? If they don't work out you discard them with nothing lost.
Folau is on god knows what, completely different.

 

[coniglio_number1]

Definetly hope we don't rookie any of the chinese players.

Made it to port Adelaide. Looks like he has improved immensely and has shown incredible dedication to learning the game and is now captain of the Chinese team and the best player in China

 

[Cmarsh]

Made it to port Adelaide. Looks like he has improved immensely and has shown incredible dedication to learning the game and is now captain of the Chinese team and the best player in China

Didn't Melbourne once have a footy initative in China? What ever happened with that?

 

[woopedazz]

Didn't Melbourne once have a footy initative in China? What ever happened with that?

Chinese people were too embarrassed to be associated with Melbourne to continue playing AFL.

 

[DangerSloane]

Made it to port Adelaide. Looks like he has improved immensely and has shown incredible dedication to learning the game and is now captain of the Chinese team and the best player in China

So he's better than 1.2 billion other chinese people.

That Fyfe guy, hes only better than 22 million Australians.

Chen Shaoliang > Nat Fyfe

 

[Cmarsh]

Chinese people were too embarrassed to be associated with Melbourne to continue playing AFL.

Was actually genuinely curious re my question.

Bay's this way buddy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Rob]

Didn't Melbourne once have a footy initative in China? What ever happened with that?

I don't think they actually did anything other than play a game there.

 

[loki04]

I don't think they actually did anything other than play a game there.

In 2005, in partnership with the City of Melbourne, the Melbourne Football Club took tentative steps to create links with our Chinese Sister City, Tianjin, which have now led to the building of an AFL oval and the establishment of the Tianjin Demons in China’s growing national AFL competition.

Over the past six years, the club has supported the Chinese National AFL Team (Red Demons) in the AFL International Cups in 2008 and 2011, hosted two Chinese players in a pre-season scholarship program in 2008 and visited China eleven times including a player development trip in 2007 and the first AFL exhibition match as part of the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2011-12-31/china-growing-the-game-part-three

 

[Kram]

Sean Hurley is still at Fremantle.