Analysis Father/Son Selections

[Wizard17]

Had this last year when I was coaching under 13s
Frankston kid was 194cm at 13 years old

Was he an Essendon F/S?

 

[Dog Rising]

Seen a bit of Jamarra Ugle-Hagan in our local footy league. Kid is a freak. Has also made the Vic basketball team, so not sure which sport he chooses to progress with. Young indigenous talent, so definitely one to watch for our academy.

 

[VitalDread]

Was he an Essendon F/S?

Can't recall but played as an inside midfielder

 

[threenewpadlocks]

How does this work, do we have dibs on all the kids in the team or do we have to just select a few of the kids as options to draft?

It's kids who are either indigenous or from a multicultural background who live in a geographical area assigned to us (in our case the western suburbs and Ballarat/Warrnambool area). If they get nominated by another club we get F/S or Northern Academy rights on them (20% discount on the points of whatever club bids for them.) If nobody bids on them, we can take them as a category B rookie (pay them outside the salary cap). We have right of first refusal on these players, if we pass on them, another club can take them (Hawthorn passed on Tweedie, who is indigenous, in their zone, so we took him as a Cat B rookie).

AFL is doing this to kill quite a few birds with one stone. One reason being to mitigate 14 clubs' complaints about the academies (and the complaints are actually different to what get bandied around the internet and media: it's not so much of the fairness of the access to the northern academy players per se, but the fact that they can be developed in the style that the club wants under their coaches under the age of 18, whilst every other club has to defer to the quality and style of coaching found in the WAFL/SANFL/TAC Cup, this mitigates it because it allows every club to do the same to players in their NGA zone). A second reason for marketing purposes if it comes to a multicultural kid, for example, say a Vietnamese kid becomes draft quality from the Western suburbs. He would be a player that connects strongly with the community that he grew up with and would encourage that community to become more passionate supporters of the Dogs, helping our community efforts, rather than him being shipped off to Fremantle after being drafted or whatever. One third reason is to simply address the inequalities and factors influencing these communities access to footy, ie, it's a way to not only increase youth participation numbers but for the societal responsibility that the AFL has in a similar way that they supported the Yes marriage equality movement.

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

Being 198cm just after turning 15? What are they feeding that kid?

Who again?

 

[giblj]

Seen a bit of Jamarra Ugle-Hagan in our local footy league. Kid is a freak. Has also made the Vic basketball team, so not sure which sport he chooses to progress with. Young indigenous talent, so definitely one to watch for our academy.

That's an outstanding name too, hope he makes it

 

[Wizard17]

Just looking over some stuff from Calder on U18 practice matches and Ollie Liberatore was playing in one of the squads.

 

[VitalDread]

Just looking over some stuff from Calder on U18 practice matches and Ollie Liberatore was playing in one of the squads.

fingers crossed he stays with footy and not basketball

 

[Wizard17]

Of the kids who are bottom agers this year in the TAC Cup the following F/S have been named in squads that I currently know of:

Oliver Liberatore (son of Tony)
Tyler Kolyniuk (son of Steven)
Josh Kellett (son of Nigel)