Sydney Scholarship Players

[ROK Lobster]

Ryan is the brother of Daniel's great-great-great (x80) grandfather

He is a little bit older.

[dimelb]

Can we hyphenate the nickname?

I always wondered what would happen if two people with hyphenated surnames wanted to get married?

Perhaps marriage of future off spring from present team could produce Jolly-Goodes or what about Jolly-Jack or Jack-Bird.

Gets silly.

Barry-Hall.

[ItsAllGoodes]

4 new scholarship players


Four new faces at the Swans - Official AFL Website of the Sydney Swans

[johnno]

If Bottin-Noonan get's drafted....

Roberts-Thomson-Bottin-Noonan! Now THAT'S a name you could yell out!

We cant have a kid on our team with a name Like Bottin-Noonan can we. You know whats going to happen if/when he does get a senior guernsey, the same thing that happens to Lurch. Commentators never say..."and Roberts-Thompson has the ball and kick wide", they always pronounce his name in full..."and Lewis Roberts-Thompson has the ball and kicks wide" listen carefully next time and you will see, I mean hear... umm you know what I mean.

[BSA5]

4 new scholarship players


Four new faces at the Swans - Official AFL Website of the Sydney Swans

I love how in the photo, they've attempted to make the scholarship kids look as tall as the senior players! You can tell by the height their knees are at that they're standing on something!

[TheGong]

I love how in the photo, they've attempted to make the scholarship kids look as tall as the senior players! You can tell by the height their knees are at that they're standing on something!

Maybe not. A little bit of searching found their heights and weights at the U15 trials earlier this year.

Harry Butchart 190 77
Mitch Crawford 180 62
Stephen Wray 178 68
Daniel Robinson 176 73

Pretty tall kids for 14 and 15 year olds. Also, when boys grow they grow outside in - their shins and forearms first, then their thighs and upper arms and finally their trunks and spines. They look like all arms and legs at this age.

[dimelb]

We cant have a kid on our team with a name Like Bottin-Noonan can we. You know whats going to happen if/when he does get a senior guernsey, the same thing that happens to Lurch. Commentators never say..."and Roberts-Thompson has the ball and kick wide", they always pronounce his name in full..."and Lewis Roberts-Thompson has the ball and kicks wide" listen carefully next time and you will see, I mean hear... umm you know what I mean.

Except when they say (as per the other night) Robert Lewis-Thompson.

[DST]

Really confirms the club has changed it's thinking around the NSW rookies and now considers the scholarship program a better and more direct route.

Firstly it's cheaper and it also gives the club the chance to work with the kids for a much longer period before they might be drafted or rookied to work on things like game development, skills and technique.

Will still be a case for adding NSW rookies, for anyone that slips through but more and more we will be getting these kids at 14 or 15 on the scholarship program.

Would love to see the Swans to be allowed and even greater number so they could field an entire junior side themselves, say under 16/s with the older scholarship kids playing in the reserves for the final part of their development.

DST

[Primmy]

Maybe not. A little bit of searching found their heights and weights at the U15 trials earlier this year.

Harry Butchart 190 77
Mitch Crawford 180 62
Stephen Wray 178 68
Daniel Robinson 176 73

Pretty tall kids for 14 and 15 year olds. Also, when boys grow they grow outside in - their shins and forearms first, then their thighs and upper arms and finally their trunks and spines. They look like all arms and legs at this age.

Like a paddock of colts, all elbows and knees. And then you get the little bulldogs and terriors, low centred and blocky I love this game, everyone gets a go.

[ugg]

Some nicknames

Butch
Crawf
Fay
and Crusoe?

[Primmy]

Some nicknames

Butch
Crawf
Fay
and Crusoe?

NO-one is going to understand Fay! Unfortunately I do, the kids won't.

Butch looks like a given. Crawf too. Warren? (Wray Warren...). Friday?

[dimelb]

Stephen Wray aka "Death"?

[johnno]

Except when they say (as per the other night) Robert Lewis-Thompson.

Yeh, I heard that too.

[bandwagon]

Stephen Wray aka "Death"?

Gold!

[Reggi]

Wondering how many Scholarship players we ended up with