NSW Scholarship Kids

[one 4 the road]

I thought this was a thread about scholarship players?
Thrippie start a new one about self promotion, we were talking about kids who have already got one and the chances of them making the grade. all-schools NSW, not exactly top of the heap mate. Good luck to you though champ, will keep an eye out for your name in future Rams teams.

 

[happy_eagle]

Is West Coasts Sydney scholarship Recruit Ryan Davis?

I think so.

dam straight there guys

he will be a star backmen in a few years, and as hutchy would say

Watch this space

 

[Bollox]

dam straight there guys
he will be a star backmen in a few years, and as hutchy would say
Watch this space

geeezus..dont hype the poor kid before he's even done a thing. Was a good move rookie listing him straight up but the WAFL will be a big step up in class for him if he gets gametime this yr.

Good PROSPECT...but at least watch him the next 2 yrs before fellating his trombone.

 

[budf23]

he must have been a gun , if even a hawk fan cant remember his name

Roos pubicly cried

 

[BLmatt_20]

Duck fans what was the kids name who Hawthorn stole off you and Roo's cracked the poos?

sorry bout bringing this from the dead guys but i never new this thread existed.

that kids name is trent stubbs. his brother is anthony stubbs who is a west coast scholarship player.

blake mcgrath (st kilda scholarship) is a good pick up in my opinion. he wins the ball and hes 208cm! a minor problem i see with him but is because of the basketball background, whenever he gets the ball he stops and looks around for option instead of continually moving which cause him to get tackled with the ball alot. but hes only new to the game and that can easily be improved on.

 

[RUNVS]

sorry bout bringing this from the dead guys but i never new this thread existed.

that kids name is trent stubbs. his brother is anthony stubbs who is a west coast scholarship player.

blake mcgrath (st kilda scholarship) is a good pick up in my opinion. he wins the ball and hes 208cm! a minor problem i see with him but is because of the basketball background, whenever he gets the ball he stops and looks around for option instead of continually moving which cause him to get tackled with the ball alot. but hes only new to the game and that can easily be improved on.

I guess there is no need to ask what position he plays.

Here is a recent article about the Scholarship Scheme

Talent for Second Sydney side goes interstate

BLAKE BRAY is only 15 but gifted enough to play football with men playing first grade for the Western Suburbs club in Sydney's premier division.

He grew up with a rugby league-loving father, but started playing Australian football as a nine-year-old when he noticed an ad for Auskick in the school newsletter.

With those credentials, Bray could be the poster boy for Sydney's second AFL team to be based in the west of the city and be launched some time in the next few years - right about the time Bray will be eligible for the national draft.

But Bray is not likely to play for the club closest to his home in Tahmoor, southwest of Sydney. His future has already been signed to a rival AFL team 1000km away.

While the AFL is nutting out whether exclusive recruiting zones will be set up in western Sydney and the Gold Coast to help stock the two new teams with local talent, Bray has been snapped up by Carlton on an AFL-funded scholarship.

Carlton's national recruiting manager, Wayne Hughes, has spent this week in Sydney, along with recruiters from the other 15 clubs, watching more than 250 of the most talented under-15 and under-16 NSW boys play in the state zone carnival. He believes Bray was one of the best there.

"We are not sure how the (recruiting) rules will unfold with the new teams, so we just do what we can under the rules as they are now," Hughes said. "We have been following this young fellow for a bit of time and we came up last week to sign him because other clubs were looking at him."

Bray, who is 190cm, says the prospect of a new club is giving local boys fresh hope they can play in the AFL.

"It would be excellent. There will be a lot more opportunities for kids in Sydney," Bray said yesterday.

Former Collingwood captain Nathan Buckley has been at the NSW talent camp to pass on what he learned during his stellar 260-game career.

"Queensland and NSW young talent are going to have opportunities perhaps above and beyond the traditional states. Hopefully that means we get a lot more interest from young players," Buckley said.

He understands the difficulty of the AFL's ambitious plan to establish a team in the rugby league heartland of west Sydney.

A few years ago he spent a week in the area doing clinics with Collingwood and was flabbergasted at the lack of knowledge about a code that is king in Melbourne.

While Buckley can't walk a metre in Victoria without signing an autograph, in Sydney one child asked him if he was famous because he was the husband of games show hostess Nicky Buckley.

Buckley laughs at the memory. "We would go to do clinics and presentations at schools and ask, 'Who has heard of AFL footy? You might get two or three hands up out of about 50, so we were blown away by it.

"A lot can happen in a short space of time. You are working against years of tradition in an opposition sport's stronghold, but the AFL is very solid and committed."

Buckley, who played with Brisbane when they were the struggling "Bad News Bears", says the new teams will need to be competitive from the start, and other clubs must make concessions with players and recruiting.

That means the AFL may need to alter the scholarship rules, under which more than 30 NSW boys including Bray have already been signed to clubs, if it wants to eventually have locals listed with the new club.

At present all 16 clubs can scholarship-list up to six boys aged 15 to 17 annually.

The Swans have already had success, with former scholarship holder Craig Bird making his senior debut this season.

Swans' recruiting manager Stuart Maxfield has tentatively signed two teenage Sydneysiders this week, including another from the Western Suburbs club, Nathan Kenny, 15.

He supports the scheme but says it could drain potential talent from a second Sydney team.

"If the second team comes in, I don't know what happens to the scholarship scheme. What do they do, scrap it?" Maxfield said.

"If they don't scrap it, all the talent is still going interstate and they don't want that to happen."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23594221-5012432,00.html
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I think with a combination of the NSW Scholarship Scheme and a 2nd Sydney team will see the amount of NSW born and bread players in the AFL increase dramatically in the next few years.

 

[legend166]

Oh man, I hope more than anything that this Thrippie character makes it in the AFL. I want to be able to save this thread and then bring it out in 10 years.

Funniest thing I've seen on Big Footy in ages.

 

[Rave Slave]

Taylor Walker will be bigger than Jesus

 

[RUNVS]

Taylor Walker will be bigger than Jesus

Most AFL players are

 

[Warwick]

Taylor Walker will be bigger than Jesus

Judd <<< Jesus <<< Walker <<< Thrippie

 

[Rave Slave]

Judd <<< Jesus <<< Walker <<< Thrippie

I wouldn't dare mention the almighty Thripster in the same breath as the other 3

 

[swannies]

geeezus..dont hype the poor kid before he's even done a thing. Was a good move rookie listing him straight up but the WAFL will be a big step up in class for him if he gets gametime this yr.

Good PROSPECT...but at least watch him the next 2 yrs before fellating his trombone.

Got back from watching him with the mighty Swannies again today Bollox. And he's good. He's shown a lot more than I expected a NSW scholarship kid to show at the WAFL level. Attacks the ball hard, backs his judgement, ducks and dives through the packs. He's impressed me in the first 5 games so far. Would had to have been in the best players in at least 3 of those games, which is a fair effort for a NSW kid in a pretty good league.

Happy just get's a little excited supporting his BF sponsored player.

 

[Bollox]

Got back from watching him with the mighty Swannies again today Bollox. And he's good. He's shown a lot more than I expected a NSW scholarship kid to show at the WAFL level. Attacks the ball hard, backs his judgement, ducks and dives through the packs. He's impressed me in the first 5 games so far. Would had to have been in the best players in at least 3 of those games, which is a fair effort for a NSW kid in a pretty good league.

Happy just get's a little excited supporting his BF sponsored player.

Great news...tx for telling us.

I guess most would be transfixed on guys like Niatanui and Yarran for you so tx for relaying some news on how Davis is going.

Its just such an enormous untapped talent pool and there has been a disappointing drought the last 5 yrs...we just havent seen them go up.

The more u think of it the more this scholarship system is the best idea in eons and might do more for the game here than just about anything. Hoping a cpl get senior listed over the next few yrs and it gets accelerated. Just seems the sensible way ahead over here.

MUST get them the step up in class early on that Davis is now getting...u just dont know unless they get it.

 

[floppinab]

There's some news and information and a list that includes scholarship holders up to Feb this year.

http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-4710-0-0-0&sID=55526

 

[swannies]

Great news...tx for telling us.

I guess most would be transfixed on guys like Niatanui and Yarran for you so tx for relaying some news on how Davis is going.

Its just such an enormous untapped talent pool and there has been a disappointing drought the last 5 yrs...we just havent seen them go up.

The more u think of it the more this scholarship system is the best idea in eons and might do more for the game here than just about anything. Hoping a cpl get senior listed over the next few yrs and it gets accelerated. Just seems the sensible way ahead over here.

MUST get them the step up in class early on that Davis is now getting...u just dont know unless they get it.

Further, he is averaging 20.5 possessions and 4 marks per match, remember, that is in his first 4 games of WAFL league football. Yesterday's match he would have been close to those averages, so to maintain a 20+ possession average over the first 5 games is pretty good. Suggests your comments about not knowing unless you give them a chance are pretty spot on.

 

[RUNVS]

well u wait and see......just remember the name, and im not talking self-promotion, i dont care if no-one listens, but i just wanted to share my opinion. and unlike a few of my friends who already have scholarships, i dont get my father to go and sit next to the scouts and talk me up all the time. i plan to make the afl, without any help, for myself.

Well if your good enough then i say good on you. Though going by your age and the draft rules coming into the AFL for the Western Sydney team if you are good enough to play at a AFL level then you will probably end up on the list of the Western Sydney team.

 

[Marshall1980]

does anyone know about the kids west coast are looking at?
apparently theres three of them.
ones at north shore, small skinny midfielder.. sort of a tagging type

anothers at riverview.. big guy who i saw play at western suburbs two weeks a go and he kicked a bag. good hands but a bit slow.

the other is i think josh cole from north shore

 

[Cap]

Taylor Walker will be bigger than Jesus

i'm waiting for the pricks to change the rules, so we lose him to some shit club or worse...

 

[Bollox]

Who woulda thunkit...Ryan Davis 5 games at top level so far already...and i'm not hearing weagles fans on his back about anything so he must be going ok at least. He's a chance at making it. Probably depends how well he rebounds for Swan Districts when he's eventually rotated or dropped.

NSW scholarship system...fantastic initiative that is working !

 

[RUNVS]

Who woulda thunkit...Ryan Davis 5 games at top level so far already...and i'm not hearing weagles fans on his back about anything so he must be going ok at least. He's a chance at making it. Probably depends how well he rebounds for Swan Districts when he's eventually rotated or dropped.

NSW scholarship system...fantastic initiative that is working !

Or he could be slightly less horrible than the rest of their team

 

[superfraser]

Taylor Walker who was drafted onto the Crows list is doing great for Norwood (I think) in the SANFL.

After 3 or 4 games in the 2's he was called up to the firsts.

He's kicked a bag of 8 or 9 while in the firsts as well as a slew of other goals.

 

[Bollox]

Taylor Walker who was drafted onto the Crows list is doing great for Norwood (I think) in the SANFL.

After 3 or 4 games in the 2's he was called up to the firsts.

He's kicked a bag of 8 or 9 while in the firsts as well as a slew of other goals.

Yeah kicked 9.1 for Norwood 3 weeks ago

Must have ditched the mullet.

Might see him next yr ...even with Tippett and Sellar ahead he might get his chance. All perfect prototype KP size for top level footy

 

[jonesy86]

2 of the best players for NSW in the U/18s Nationals will go straight to Geelong (Ranga Edwik... Mid) and Collingwood (Scott Reed CHB/HBF)

 

[Bollox]

2 of the best players for NSW in the U/18s Nationals will go straight to Geelong (Ranga Edwik... Mid) and Collingwood (Scott Reed CHB/HBF)

Reed has a few talking about him lately. Nathan Brown at FB and Scott Reed CHB in 2011. Ya never know. He;s still pretty skinny tho.

Just great to see the talent pool isnt being wasted.

 

[betterthanu]

Yeah kicked 9.1 for Norwood 3 weeks ago

Must have ditched the mullet.

Might see him next yr ...even with Tippett and Sellar ahead he might get his chance. All perfect prototype KP size for top level footy

Hes probably ahead of Sellar for a game atm. Will prob see him this year eventually. The week after he kicked 9, he kicked 5 or 6 goals in a half of footy before Norwood capitulated and the ball barely went near him in the 2nd half.

Also, the mullet is gone.