Earl Shaw and rucks

[swantastic]

Originally posted by hammo
more likely tall forward.

This time hammo your not spot on we have plenty of forwards.What we need is a fast midfield option.

[robbieando]

Originally posted by swantastic
Dale Lewis is the coach of the Red Legs(Noorwood) Football Club so if there is any good youngster coming through the club he could tell the swans.Hopefuly all his comments about drugs in footy havnt burnt that bridge.

Or the fact he wasn't the coach of Norwood in 2006

[Benevolent Ert]

It's quite possible we'd be looking at either one or both of Davis and Shaw as possibilities for the rookie list - and the only way to drop a player from the senior list to the rookie list is to delist them and pick them up in the rookie draft

I may be wrong about this but we might even have priority rookie access to them as they may qualify as zone priority rookies, having played in NSW the last two years (with the Swans) - pretty sure we did this with Heath James a couple of years ago

[SimonH]

Originally posted by Benevolent Ert
I may be wrong about this but we might even have priority rookie access to them as they may qualify as zone priority rookies, having played in NSW the last two years (with the Swans) - pretty sure we did this with Heath James a couple of years ago

Like so many things organised by the great umbrella organisation that is the AFL, the rules for the Sydney/Brisbane local rookie list aren't published anywhere accessible to the public. References to Heath James' rookie listing don't refer to him being called a 'local rookie' for whatever that's worth.

But it would be the greatest joke of all time if we could put Matt Davis on the local rookie list when his only connection with NSW is the fact that he got drafted here 3 years ago! Historically, for example in state of origin footy, qualifying is based on where you lived and played when you were 15 or 16 years of age. This makes sense. (Earl Shaw grew up playing for Campbelltown, and in fact originally came from the local rookie list, so would definitely qualify no matter what.) Not that there would be any logical point that I can see in doing so, even if we could.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by SimonH
Historically, for example in state of origin footy, qualifying is based on where you lived and played when you were 15 or 16 years of age. This makes sense. (Earl Shaw grew up playing for Campbelltown, and in fact originally came from the local rookie list, so would definitely qualify no matter what.) Not that there would be any logical point that I can see in doing so, even if we could.

I thought State of Origin was based on where you played your first game of senior football. That's why the Richardson brothers played for different states in the 70's. But it may have been changed now.

[liz]

Don't think the club did it with James but they did with someone. IIRC it was Gerard Bennett.

[chammond]

Originally posted by liz
Don't think the club did it with James but they did with someone. IIRC it was Gerard Bennett.

Yes, it was Bennett.

The Swans successfully argued that Tasmania is really just an outer suburb of Sydney.

[adnar]

Essendon - Matthew Firman, Essendon; Ben Jolley, Essendon; Justin Maddern, Bendigo Bombers; Tim O?Keefe, Essendon; David Rodan, Richmond

What are the chances..

[SimonH]

Originally posted by goswannie14
I thought State of Origin was based on where you played your first game of senior football. That's why the Richardson brothers played for different states in the 70's. But it may have been changed now.

Sorry, my bad. Wayne Carey, somewhat notoriously, played state of origin for South Australia (source) as recently as 1992 because he started his career playing for North Adelaide. (It's not like the NSW SOO team couldn't have used the help.)

I think in the dying days of state of origin they probably fixed up the anomaly. I remember being surprised to see a guy called Nick Daffy, who I'd never heard of before, running around for SA in a state of origin pasting it copped at the MCG circa 1995. I don't think Daffy ever played senior footy in SA but went straight from Mt Gambier to Melbourne.

[Benevolent Ert]

Don't be surprised to see at least one, maybe more of the delisted players on the rookie list come December 12

Originally posted by Paul Roos

The likelihood of re-drafting a player we have de-listed is more likely to happen in the Rookie Draft (December 12) than in the Draft tomorrow

Link: http://sydneyswans.com.au/default.as...ticleid=307514

[swantastic]

After Amon Buchanan was de-listed and re-drafted to the Swans in 2003, can supporters expect to see any of the delisted players from this year back on the Swans list?

If the delisted players who are redrafted turn out as good as AB we all should be very happy.

[SimonH]

Originally posted by Benevolent Ert
Don't be surprised to see at least one, maybe more of the delisted players on the rookie list come December 12

I noticed that. Happy news for Earl Shaw, no doubt. Hard to draw a rational conclusion from the weird way the Earl Shaw story has unfolded. The nearest I can do, is that the club is now saying that if at the end of 2005 it had known of the impending change to the rules where you can keep a rookie on your rookie list for 3 years, it never would have promoted him.