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Wheresbuddy
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- Sep 14, 2020
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The pretence of NGA is that it is supposedly meant to give clubs incentive to develop players from a non footy background. Borlase clearly has had footy coursing through his veins and has been disadvantaged in no way by being born in Egypt. Guys like JUH, Saunders and Mitch Owens (who St Kilda matched our bid) are all the same. They all would've played footy, progressed through the usual pathways in a footy dominant state and got drafted regardless of their minority status. My understanding is that the clubs who use the NGA system dont even need to put any time ir effort into these kids given the infrastructure is there via junior and school footy. The NGA system is clearly just a concession to the clubs from traditional footy states and serves no real purpose in advancing the game.You want rorts?
James Borlase at Adelaide was selected under the NGA system. His father was a premiership captain at Port Adelaide where he played 246 games and his mother represented Australia 70 times at netball. His parents moved to Egypt for work and James was born there then moved back to Adelaide a COUPLE OF MONTHS after he was born.
There, ladies and gentlemen, is the NGA system. And they complain about a FS in our academy...