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Bassirou Faye
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Ask Peter Dutton.
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Floreat Pica, Bitch!
He thinks your growth plates close over by 18 years old, due to increased levels of Billy Frampton in the bloodstream.
The Phantom
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I’ll be amazed if he ever plays a senior game.
Not for lack of him trying.
A poor investment of resources.
Not for lack of him trying.
A poor investment of resources.
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It's an international scholarship. He's not on the list.
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We can get him if he shows he can play?It's an international scholarship. He's not on the list.
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Yes we can. I'm more amused by the statement that it's a "poor investment of resources."
I played against an aboriginal bloke in u16s and u18s who didn't have a birth certificate and the league wasn't allowed to ask him for one.
At u16s all the teams bar his own approached the league requesting proof of birth date as he was man sized and there were suspicions his club was fudging his birthdate.
Turns out they were right and when we were all turning 15 he was actually turning 18.
He admitted it over a beer in the pub many years later.
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Imagine him up forward as well.
We can only hope. The kid is a monster.
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Due to the recency of the African immigration into Australia, pretty much all of them would be eligible for the Next Generation academies, as they pretty much all have a background considered Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD). Australia's African communities are a gold mine of athletic talent - soccer and basketball will reap the biggest dividends as they're the sports favoured within those communities. I'm surprised that Aussie Rules doesn't appear to being more proactive on this one. And it seems strange to me that we've poached a Senegalese kid away from basketball, but no clubs appear to be doing the same with the local African kids.
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Cat-B Rookie where the others who live in Australia would be in Open Draft
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Theyre pretty much all NGA available and available as Cat B if not footy players or not taken in the main draft. My point is that if you're going to be chasing foreignors due solely to athletic traits without any Aussie Rules production, why wouldn't you be first doing the same with local kids. Perhaps clubs are, but it does seem that the National Draft for kids already excelling is the only real way that these kids are getting a look in.
sr36
TheBrownDog
Hope so. I think footy is dropping the ball big time though.
This year I started at a South Australian private school with a 40% African background student population. It's early days, so my initial impression could be way off the mark. But here's what I've seen so far:
2 ex-students are socceroos and the school has links to Adelaide United - who've done a few things on campus already this year - there's also involvement with quality basketball programs and we have some awesome young players. Meanwhile, I'm yet to even see a footy on campus. Things may change when it's footy season, but I'm yet to see any interest from the footy community and no interest in the other direction.
In the match I saw he played about 40% game and he kicked a goal not from a set shot or anything but general play but he looked alright in the ruck contest IMO.
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TheBrownDog
There's a couple of Sudanese basketball/soccer players and a Burundian soccer player who Dekka should have a look at. Do you have his phone number?
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I know Coxy is keen to set up an American academy after he retires. So many great athletes who are doing nothing after college because they don’t have the local competitions.
If it gets funded properly should be a good pool of players.
Would love to see big roo out at least on the VFL field. I hope we have a feeder local club he can play at.
If it gets funded properly should be a good pool of players.
Would love to see big roo out at least on the VFL field. I hope we have a feeder local club he can play at.
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That sounds encouraging.
Maybe we use him like a kicker in the NFL? takes the center bounce then comes off.
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The thing is that we have all the time in the world for Faye. He's on an international scholarship - let him develop as a footballer for the entire time the scholarship allows, then list him as a Cat B rookie. The scholarship might not even end until 2025.
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Big Roo has shoes on too.
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There are lots playing high level junior basketball, and their flipping good, lots in the NBL as well, they fish with a longer pole than most, in time the will dominate AFL IMO, think 6’7 Ablett Jrn running around, but with sub 11 second 100 metre ability.
One of the NSW teams had Godfrey Okergurang (spelling?) on their rookie list, Australian national u18 champion (10.50), seen him long jump at the Wagga open day off 5 steps and cleared 7 metres on grass, 6’5 ish, he chose athletics over football, I’ve been to open days all over NSW and Vic and I’ve never seen anyone like him, and I’ve seen Jack Boulton live too, Jack actually played football around the Wangaratta area, put him in the GF sprint and he wins by 15 metres eased up, thinking he may have chosen athletics as well, AFL has never seen the likes of both athletes I’ve mentioned.
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Leg growth plates are the first to fuse, spine has growth plates too and they tend to fuse later than the legs, those are good for an inch or 2 on average from what I’m told, toes and fingers have growth plates as well, my son just turned 14 and is 6’3, his leg plates have fused, we only know that due to X-rays from nasty growing pains in his knees.
America is the real goldmine. All the kids who are athletic freaks but miss out on Pro NBA or NFL but still wanna be professional athletes.
