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[ManOfClay]

Trent "The Difference" Dumont will realign all the perceived SA weakness on his own when he begins reeling off his string of consecutive AA seasons.

When's he back in court?

 

[Moist Biscuit]

Trent "Cabby Destroyer" Dumont will realign all the perceived SA weakness on his own when he begins reeling off his string of consecutive AA seasons.

efa*

 

[avishka5]

They need to start drinking this! Nectar of the gods

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lived in both states and consider my self as a groper but i would rather drink my own piss.

 

[coniglio_number1]

lived in both states and consider my self as a groper but i would rather drink my own piss.

Blasphemy

 

[avishka5]

Blasphemy

you either have no taste buds or lying to your self bud ahaha.

 

[coniglio_number1]

you either have no taste buds or lying to your self bud ahaha.

Sure it's no hoegaarden but in the Pilbara after a 12 hour shift the exports go down pretty nicely

 

[footyfan1978]

Living in the middle of nowhere does strange things to people.

 

[avishka5]

Sure it's no hoegaarden but in the Pilbara after a 12 hour shift the exports go down pretty nicely

its like a bit like maccas at three am after night of drinking.

 

[Ramify]

I think a part of the problem stems from a lack of Physical education at primary school level.

My kid gos to a large (1300 student) primary school, where PE class is 1 hour a week.
I coached his footy side this year and it was a real struggle to round up 9 players from 2 year levels to field a team. Ended up poaching 3 kids from the age group below in order to field a side.

Kid played soccer and Cricket the year before and much was the same.Many of the kids being so unfit and uncoordinated it looked as if this was the first time they had ever experienced the company of a ball.

They dont play these sports at lunch time as there isnt enough field space left in school grounds anymore since the Labor Government handed out all that money to schools for new wizzbang pergolas,portable Drama/ESL rooms,drinking troughs and other assorted infrastructure.
they cant go outside if too hot,too cold,too wet, if someone has a peanut butter sandwich within a 5k radius, arent allowed to touch each other, cant play with leather balls as they are an OH+S issue etc etc.

All the Parents are too "Timepoor" these days to get off their arses on a weeknight and on a Saturday morning to ferry/watch their kid play.

They have overly encouraged a "everyones a winner" policy and overregulated youth sport to the point where participation has become too much of an effort. and have killed thw fun on it.

Anyway....Youth sport has been pussified to the max in this state.

 

[Power Raid]

All I hear from this is SA no longer has the footy infrastructure to develop players.

Time for a six team league in the sanfl with three teams controlled by port and three by the crows

 

[Bollox]

Read that us taking Will Hayward from Nth Adel at pick 21 was the earliest South Aust pick, then no more till pick 40ish. I kind of doubted it when i saw it coz seemed unusual.
Assume its just a one off and talent isnt THAT thin i hope.

 

[madmug]

SANFL club system is terrible. Havent come to terms with the fact they are purely a feeder league and spend more time and effort trying to recruit ex AFL Hacks rather than junior development.

Keeping the league standard up is a good way to see the best kids develop. Turning the SANFL into simply another junior pathway will not help improve the quality of young kids.
They've focused on that pathway crap here for years & its done nothing to help our TSL or junior development. No one drafted & clubs with no money. Thats all the AFL have achieved here.

 

[footyfan1978]

The sky is not falling in. Honestly think it is just a cycle of ordinary talent. It will change, no different to how the cricket cycle went from crap to golden era in late 1990's to early 2000's and now a cycle where batting talent thin at moment.

 

[Magma]

the talent is definitely there. someone like jonty scharenberg is absolutely good enough to be picked up by an afl club. last season port picked up one of the best young sa midfielders (will snelling) in the rookie draft. the graham kid picked up by richmond, absolute manchild, best player at the carnival or whatever, pick 40 something.

are clubs hesitant to pick sa kids i think is the better question. i definitely think the talent is there. usually if the kid is good enough he'll get a go at league level. westies played 16 year old izak rankine for a few league games and he'll play this season too because he's good enough. and he'll get picked up by an afl club. tyson edwards' kid is supposed to be a bit of a gun.

personally, i just think they're getting a bit ignored after having some pretty big numbers taken in the past decade.

 

[Kingfish73]

Problem = SANFL and its stagnate leadership. SANFL is an old boys club taking care of mates. They have zero motivation, ideas and smarts to transform the competition to produce a much richer pool of AFL potential talent.

 

[Bokonon_]

Underage comp needs AFL funding, take some away from GWS and Sydney who are clearly doing very well anyway.

If you mean our academies they dont fund them signicantly. Sponsorship does. If you mean the NEAFL you need to specify. No doubt we'd prefer a national reserves comp anyway.

 

[Bokonon_]

Problem = SANFL and its stagnate leadership. SANFL is an old boys club taking care of mates. They have zero motivation, ideas and smarts to transform the competition to produce a much richer pool of AFL potential talent.

There's a shock, a Port supporter blaming the SANFL fir all that's wrong. The league is the sum of it's clubs and maybe if the largest one had been a positive contributor instead of unercutting them at every opportunity it would be very different.

 

[Kingfish73]

There's a shock, a Port supporter blaming the SANFL fir all that's wrong. The league is the sum of it's clubs and maybe if the largest one had been a positive contributor instead of unercutting them at every opportunity it would be very different.

There's a shock, a gws supporter that has nfi on sanfl.

 

[Bokonon_]

There's a shock, a gws supporter that has nfi on sanfl.

Haha
Now why would you assume that? Is it your position your club has been supportive if the SANFL?
There's one club in Aussie rules rules history that has faced a unaminous vote to kick it out of it's competition Now who could that be? mmm
Hint: It was Port Magpies

 

[Papa G]

Haha
Now why would you assume that? Is it your position your club has been supportive if the SANFL?
There's one club in Aussie rules rules history that has faced a unaminous vote to kick it out of it's competition Now who could that be? mmm
Hint: It was Port Magpies

Lol. Didn't you used to be called Bokonon or something? There couldn't be 2 GWS supporters in the world that sound like Marty's sister.

 

[Gough]

Haha
Now why would you assume that? Is it your position your club has been supportive if the SANFL?
There's one club in Aussie rules rules history that has faced a unaminous vote to kick it out of it's competition Now who could that be? mmm
Hint: It was Port Magpies

I'm a Sturt fan, really dislike the Maggies, but supported Port's push into the AFL. It might have been arrogant, and a touch duplicitous, but the guys that were running the SANFL at the time had some outdated idea that footy in this state could continue to thrive without a SA presence in the national league. Port's push just forced their hand.

 

[Bokonon_]

I'm a Sturt fan, really dislike the Maggies, but supported Port's push into the AFL. It might have been arrogant, and a touch duplicitous, but the guys that were running the SANFL at the time had some outdated idea that footy in this state could continue to thrive without a SA presence in the national league. Port's push just forced their hand.

Fair enough
I dont agree but support your right to that view. Old time Bays for me

 

[Bokonon_]

Lol. Didn't you used to be called Bokonon or something? There couldn't be 2 GWS supporters in the world that sound like Marty's sister.

After all that time claimimg I must be a crows alt, glad you see you've taking a step forward. Now you seemingly understand you dont have to be a Crows supporter to dislike Port's history of selfish underhand manouvering.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Bays lel who would've figured

 

[Rotayjay]

I think a part of the problem stems from a lack of Physical education at primary school level.

My kid gos to a large (1300 student) primary school, where PE class is 1 hour a week.
I coached his footy side this year and it was a real struggle to round up 9 players from 2 year levels to field a team. Ended up poaching 3 kids from the age group below in order to field a side.

Kid played soccer and Cricket the year before and much was the same.Many of the kids being so unfit and uncoordinated it looked as if this was the first time they had ever experienced the company of a ball.

They dont play these sports at lunch time as there isnt enough field space left in school grounds anymore since the Labor Government handed out all that money to schools for new wizzbang pergolas,portable Drama/ESL rooms,drinking troughs and other assorted infrastructure.
they cant go outside if too hot,too cold,too wet, if someone has a peanut butter sandwich within a 5k radius, arent allowed to touch each other, cant play with leather balls as they are an OH+S issue etc etc.

All the Parents are too "Timepoor" these days to get off their arses on a weeknight and on a Saturday morning to ferry/watch their kid play.

They have overly encouraged a "everyones a winner" policy and overregulated youth sport to the point where participation has become too much of an effort. and have killed thw fun on it.

Anyway....Youth sport has been pussified to the max in this state.

Great post. In my day, the erosion of sport was already taking place - as a kid I always thought 'I'm no good at sport' but I didn't persist. Nor did the adults persist in encouraging me. Kids need guidance, and they need to be active every day. And now, the youngsters are being absorbed into FIFA video games.