News Victorian/Interstate Academies
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There seems to be some tying in with VFL alignments and by extension TAC cup
Carlton - Preston,
Hawthorn - Box Hill
Melbourne - Casey (Dandenong)
St Kilda - Sandringham
and some tying in with a club's heartland or areas they're targeting WB - Ballarat & western suburbs
Geelong - Geelong
Hawthorn - eastern suburbs
Essendon - north west suburbs
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So like Australian, greek, italian, etc?
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Great. So we miss out on a big region that develops a consistent AFL level player, so we can have a big zone in NT which will most likely net us a one trick pony that will play 2 good quarters out of 3 games. Give me a big metro/country region in VIC over a NT zone any day.
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I think you find better Chances with Aboriginal Boys the Multicultural Kids on making it.
Though go home factor be there
We get more than Oakleigh. Sandringham would have all of Bayside, Dandenong would get South Gippsland, we would get from like Glen Waverley to Caulfield or something. There would be 200,000 kids in that zone.
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I am with you Bay Pie the "smart" clubs will exploit this initiative IMO they would be "dumb" if they didn't.
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Start to see a lot more Haileybury or Caulfield Grammar scholarships.
Exactly......the AFL have made the rule I just hope Eddie & Co can exploit it to our advantage.
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Going by the Tweet. We agree to take the Zones
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No - as someone else mentioned he's closer to AS
Hawks easily win in my opinion, but only if the AFL decide to give preference to clubs who are delivering services to these regions, my understanding is that decision is yet to be made.
That region the Hawks have has some quality kids that will benefit enormously in development of their football from a young age. I've played Katherine DFL which includes both Victoria Daly and Roper regions, we were the only non-indigenous team in the league back then, and there are some seriously good kids playing community football.
Regardless which clubs win out on this, the indigenous communities involved will benefit enormously which will have a massive, massive knock on affect across a range of things least importantly football.
Well done AFL
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That doesnt matter unless they are multicultural. Are the Macedonian Marvel's kids multicultural enough?
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This is not a substitute for the draft. In other words, I suspect underage players who are already in an elite set up will be automatically ineligible to be in an academy. Whilst a region like Northern Vic might develop consistent AFL level players this area is also very efficiently scouted - I doubt there are many gun underagers that get missed by the TAC clubs. The NT on the other hand has a lot of talent and not much scouting or elite programs.
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True but they would work in the Academy we would set up
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Eddie is buying them a Macedonian passport as we speak
Does dual citizenship count?
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Have any Good Players come from Barkley?
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Yeah I would have loved a list of past/present players who would have been eligible for these academies and which area they came from.
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Jake Nead would be handy
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Oh, I could not possibly disagree with you more!!
We're not talking about picking up players like Darcey Moore cheaply, it's about picking up players like Ben Richmond and Darrean Wyatt.
What are the chances of us picking up a player in downtown Oakleigh who is new to the game and would flourish in a development program? Wouldn't have thought it'd be high?
Contrast with the NT - it'd be full of talent (just as Victoria is) but without the development opportunities - until now.
IMHO Geelong are the big winners here - getting the coveted Darwin region. They can set up a development program up there, build up their profile, even host pre-season games at a stadium up there, send the players to train up there in the off-season. Great opportunities. Melbourne have done well to get Alice Springs. And Essendon would be mightily chuffed bagging the Tiwi Islands - they are mad for AFL up there!
