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V important game this week end for the reserves, anyone hear a line up, will we have many listed players? Hope someone will be able to put up a reports after too.
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Leo Barry is definately playing.Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09 -
NSW/ACT Rams captain Dylan McNeil will be playing as a toppie, probably with a view to a NSW rookie listing next year. Let's hope no other scouts are watching as the Bulldogs did with Dylan Addison a few years ago.Comment
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Laidlaw said last week that he should be back too. And during the news clips shown on Thursday about the Hannebury debut, Schmidt could be seen training, so looks like his injury from last week wasn't too bad.Comment
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Schmdt's injury was not serious and will play is what I heard. Yeah we need to get Mcneil on a scholarship. Some reckon a top 20 draft pick. If we get him it will be a bargain. Use our second pick on him. Murphy needs to have another good game to give himself a good chance of playing next week.Comment
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McNeil is not eligible for a scholarship, otherwise he would have undoubtedly been snapped up by now.Comment
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score? Has it started yet.Comment
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Oops its tommorrow. Soz.Comment
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Team list here:
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It has Pyke and Bevan (who obviously won't play) listed but no Eski. Must have been a late withdrawal today. Even if we assume that Malceski doesn't play, we will have 14 listed players + 3 scholarship players (Gordon, Bottin-Noonan and May) + the aforementioned McNeil which amounts to a very strong lineup.
Ainslie smashed Tuggeranong today which means they are 2 games clear of us at the moment. This is your classic "8 pointer" with Queanbeyan just 2 points behind.Comment
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"Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"
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If we could rookie NSW players before the main draft, we would effectively have priority over every (non-scholarshipped) NSW lad. The only players a club can take out of the main draft before it starts and put on their rookie list are their NSW scholarships, and even then, only if the player concerned agrees to forgo his chance of being put on a senior list and agrees to the rookie spot.Comment
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So, to clarify, after the main draft we can rookie some NSW kids (up to 3 in past years) and take them out of the rookie draft before the rookie draft begins....capeche? They get listed (and read out) as our last 3 rookie drafts. Last year was very confusing because we didn't take any NSW rookies even though there were at least two who most observers rated (One was Bruest who was rookied by the premiers).
Brisbane has been able to do the same with Qld players."I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005Comment
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Yes I believe that is right but with the added proviso that the player agrees. I think there was the case of Matthew Suckling who we wanted to rookie as a NSW player but Hawthorn got into his ear and told him they would pick him up so he decided to chance his arm with them instead. As for why we didn't pick up any this year, you would have to assume it was salary cap issues, we also had a chance to re-draft Aaron Bruce but passed on him.Comment
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Couldn't have been salary cap issues as rookies don't count in the salary cap. Might have been bank balance issues. Might have been because they didn't rate any of the NSW guys, though if it were that, I am still shaking my head that Bruce didn't another year. They clearly thought he was close to worthy, given that he was training with them up to the rookie draft.
Scholarship scheme, and then the introduction of WS18 is going to mean the old style NSW rookies are close to a thing of the past.Comment
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