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At least they have a pathway all the way through and sounds like they will get kids back from neighbouring QAFL clubs when entering.Personally I’m more concerned about under 13 mixed teams training prior to Christmas
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Nah was more of a have a kick around, no contact etc.At
At least they have a pathway all the way through and sounds like they will get kids back from neighbouring QAFL clubs when entering.Personally I’m more concerned about under 13 mixed teams training prior to Christmas
I appreciated the chance for my boys to meet some of the new faces.
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the amount of clubs running pre-season prior to Christmas at youth level is crazy.
pre-seasons longer than AFL players when you consider when their Round 1 is!
it's absurd.
pre-seasons longer than AFL players when you consider when their Round 1 is!
it's absurd.
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Feel like I've opened a can of worms. I know of several clubs who have a run around, some running a little touch work.
Yes Killa I know there are many clubs doing this.I just think it is ridiculous.Just my opinion.Infact our club deliberately made a decision that no structured junior training will commence until February 2024.Go down the oval and have a kick with your mates by all means but last year we had 13 year old girls and boys training in late October and we are not having it!
Yea have to say I was surprise
yea I reckon u r splitting hairs. Same jumper, same honour boards are up in rooms I imagine.
Aflq announcement fine imo. They’re not there to divide.
Hinterland FC having their team of half century celebrations in March. Should they call it off bc hinterland has only been in existence since 2005 or thereabouts?
Not a bad thing to have unstructured training simply cause one thing kids up here miss out on is that school yard footy play that occurs in southern states. Adds up to alot of extra touches for kids.
So that works out approximately 60 hours training for kids before they actually play a game around Easter???
They wonder why more injuries occurring with knees, ankles etc when we putting training loads on kids when they are in their major growth period.
Depends on what that entails SM but I would argue the licking of a footy in the schoolyard / after school would be a similar amount of work.
Like a few here have said as long as it’s not mandatory structured training with big volume not sure it’s a bad thing if someone is enthusiastic enough to take it
Like a few here have said as long as it’s not mandatory structured training with big volume not sure it’s a bad thing if someone is enthusiastic enough to take it
Congrats to Longy this morning too on his daughter having her name read out for the lions last night. Exciting night for all the Academy kids with 5 girls being taken plus a girl from Sherwood who was selected by Melbourne.
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No better time to jump on the bandwagon!
If it was only that wouldn’t be a problem, but most of the people involved with these programs seem to adopt the more is better approach.
Do you think the days of off season where kids went and played cricket, Basketball, etc is over or they jamming that in as well.
With the massive decline especially boys at ages 16-19 maybe we over doing it a bit when they are younger that they get over it by the time they are past teenage years. Just incredible the drop off in last 10 years to think we are literally down to one Colts competition should be concerning.
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“You HaVe tO MOvE tO QAfLW tO GeT DrAfTeD”Good effort to have 2 players in the Top 15 come from QFAW competition.
Great night, still a cats fan but Lions womens move to equal top spot…
Powelltown have bought a flag this year and now all their paid mercenaries have nicked off to the next destination leaving the club on the skids. Would be lucky to get two teams together in 2024.
Yea I’m not sure the reason for the drop off can be attributed to simply overtraining. More like technology I think.
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if qld has as high participation rates at that age group as any state still. It all gets bk to the type of training I think.
I do agree with you though that boys / girls that have other sports in their lives are far more likely to stick with the code and avoid burnout.
Always exceptions - and your girl was one as was Wotherspoon who it looks like Dees took as a roll of the dice on a gun multi sport athlete sitting under the Lions eyes and knowing the Lions were unlikely to match. Smart recruiting and congrats to magpies Thommo - with Reville getting picked up as a rookie B too it's been a great summer for the footy club.One of the mature age Coops girls was taken as well plus a Bond Uni girl to Crows. I think it definitely helps playing in your final year at the top level in the state otherwise you would want to brain it in the representative season. There is also the age old debate too that a player moving up a standard will automatically receive better coaching - complete furphy imo - so there is that factor to take into account.
Just great for the code up here imo to see more Qld girls making their way into the elite level. There is no reason why they can't.
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could the Lions match on that Magpie girl? shes like 21 and not part of academy or anything, so don't think they had any rights to match. I think the story said she was from Mackay, so if anything she was zoned to Suns anyway
Agreed. As good as Auskick is, if a child takes it up at 6 or 7 years of age and continues on their football path until they are 15 or 16 then they have played football for the best part of 10 years. By then, a fair number become jaded and pack it in and either devote more time to studies or other pursuits.
The burn out factor should not be discounted and maybe the AFL and its state bodies should do a more in-depth investigation into why children give it up.
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Also as your old man is a 80s team of the decade member and former senior best and fairest at Noosa,we are claiming Evie as one of our own
Yeah it’s great that Evie has been drafted from her local club.It looks great to see Sandgate a Div 1 club named next to her.Will certainly be promoting it amongst our girls as they head into Div 1 in 2024.
Also as your old man is a 80s team of the decade member and former senior best and fairest at Noosa,we are claiming Evie as one of our own
