NAB AFL Pre-Season/Rookie Drafts

[Reggi]

Dylan McNeil Trains with Sydney

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/87783/default.aspx

Hope he gets a rookie spot

[DST]

Anyone know what has happened to our young Irish recruit?

Not sure, at last reports Coney was still on the list and I have not seen anything to suggest de-listed him to remove the last year of his international rookie contract.

They would not be paying him so you would expect that they have retained him as the second international rookie in the hope he may want to come out in 2010 and give it another go.

DST

[ugg]

I think rojo is referring to the new Irish recruit Chris McKaigue. A report in on an Irish site said he just left Ireland to commence pre-season training here.

[SimonH]

Dean Terlich training with the Power, that is interesting. Would have thought Sam Rowe would have been more in demand.

I thought odd as well. Terlich at his best is a fine state league player, but I can't really see where he has the weapons to be an AFL player; and he had quite frankly a mediocre 2009 where he lost confidence badly, and was dropped from the Norwood league side once or twice. Conversely, Sam Rowe just got better and better. And screams out as exactly the sort of player GC could use.

Wouldn't get too hung up on Port train-on list, though. Most players who train with them are never picked up; and conversely, they regularly rookie players (even SA boys) who weren't training with them!

Sadly, I have absolutely no idea whether NSW boys (or boys who lived in NSW for a while) who are no longer NSW residents, qualify for the local rookie rule. Because we (absolutely outrageously) picked up the delisted SA boy Smokey Davis under the local rookie rule a few years back, I suspect that origin doesn't matter (or help) and all that matters is that you're a current resident of NSW and have been here continuously for X period. We should definitely take Malcolm Lynch from under the noses of the Bulldogs, if I'm wrong and the rules are more liberal.

Presuming always that he misses in the PSD, I fear that Matthew Panos won't last past the first 5 GC selections; he's far more capable of walking in and being competitive at VFL league level from round 1, 2010, than most 18yo rookie prospects in the pool. If he does last past GC, I'm quietly confident that he'll make it to the Swans' first selection. If we want him.

[SimonH]

Not sure, at last reports Coney was still on the list and I have not seen anything to suggest de-listed him to remove the last year of his international rookie contract.

They would not be paying him so you would expect that they have retained him as the second international rookie in the hope he may want to come out in 2010 and give it another go.

DST

Nope, definitely is delisted. They just took their sweet time about doing it.

Incidentally, is that nominal list of 9 rookie slots that the AFL say we have available, really accurate? I believe that all other clubs are getting 2 extra rookie slots as a sop for the concessions to GC17, to take them up to a maximum combined list size of 46 (usually 44). See Brisbane, the only other club operating under the same rules as us, who have 40 players on their senior list but allowance for another 9 rookies (i.e. 46 plus 3 local rookies). Shouldn't we be allowed to have 11 on our rookie list next year, if we want to?

[Steve]

Sadly, I have absolutely no idea whether NSW boys (or boys who lived in NSW for a while) who are no longer NSW residents, qualify for the local rookie rule. Because we (absolutely outrageously) picked up the delisted SA boy Smokey Davis under the local rookie rule a few years back, I suspect that origin doesn't matter (or help) and all that matters is that you're a current resident of NSW and have been here continuously for X period. We should definitely take Malcolm Lynch from under the noses of the Bulldogs, if I'm wrong and the rules are more liberal.

IIRC the rule was you had to have resided in our region for the preceding 3 years - intended to allow flexibility to recruit genuine locals, but did create that loophole that a 21/22 y/o who had been on our list for 3-4 years and then delisted still qualified.

No idea whether that rule still exists in the same form - if so we could conceivably list the likes of DOK, Laidlaw and Brabazon that way if we wanted to.

But I don't think there has ever been any flexibility to use it for the likes of Lynch or Ryan Davis who have been on other club's lists and not residents of Sydney in the last few years.

[smasher]

Would love to pick up Grimes and McNeil in the rookie draft.McNeil reminds me of Bird ,only tougher.

[Primmy]

You have to admire Henry Playfair. He is listed as Permission to Train with Sydney.

[Auntie.Gerald]

looks like Playfair is moving into Media / Marketing anyway ??

ie the Play Fair segments and no interest from other clubs no doubt !

[Mr Magoo]

I also note that Mieklejohn is training with Port. Is this the same guy from a few years back who played for the swans?

[Jeffers1984]

I also note that Mieklejohn is training with Port. Is this the same guy from a few years back who played for the swans?

yep. Same guy.

[royboy42]

And also Ablett is not named on anyone's train on list....

[ugg]

I also note that Mieklejohn is training with Port. Is this the same guy from a few years back who played for the swans?

I don't see his name on the list?

[Mr Magoo]

I think I saw it in an article in one of the melbourne papers internet page that talked about Cloke being injured and not being able to train with them because of it.

[rojo]

I think rojo is referring to the new Irish recruit Chris McKaigue. A report in on an Irish site said he just left Ireland to commence pre-season training here.

Thanks Ugg, that's the one. Good to hear he is on his way. Seemed like he had completely gone off the Swan's radar - maybe just because of the excitement surrounding the draft. Having a 'happy' Tadgh around should help him settle in.