2015 academy discussion thread (with some FS thrown in for good measure)

[Conor_Dillon]

The following Academy boys will be playing in the intra-club Friday night,

Monty Krochmal
Zach Fyffe
Jacon Derickx
Doug Hadden
Matt Rawlinson
Tom Head
Tom Young
Oscar Osborne
Jackson Monk
Will Taylor.

Can anyone provide any insight into these guys? What sort of players they are etc.?

Interesting to note that Mills isn't playing.

[magic.merkin]

At last, a substantial financial contributor to the Swans Academy has come out swinging.

"Successful banker and now Greater Western Sydney board member Paul Moore said McGuire?s move on the academies would only hurt the competition and make the AFL a bit player in Australian sport with the proposed rule changes to the system. .....Six years ago he approached the Swans .............. and stumped up in a big way to help establish the academy along with major sponsor QBE. ....He then helped the Giants out as well, where he is now a director. .....Moore is now questioning his ongoing investment in the academies."

No Cookies | dailytelegraph.com.au

Great article

[Auntie.Gerald]

is Jacon D any relation to Tom D ?

[Bloods05]

What a post. All an 19 year AFL kid wants is a nice place to live, some great mates, good times and a smorgasbord of groupies. A 19 year old player on a Melbourne AFL club list will have a wider array of groupies that Jack Hiscox would in Sydney.

All class.

[Meg]

"THE AFL PLAYERS' Association fears that the proposed academy bidding system will slow the growth of the game in non-traditional football states."
Club academies good for the game, argues AFLPA - AFL.com.au

[Jewels]

"THE AFL PLAYERS' Association fears that the proposed academy bidding system will slow the growth of the game in non-traditional football states."
Club academies good for the game, argues AFLPA - AFL.com.au

The AFLPA should be running the whole damn thing, seem to be the only organisation associated with the game that looks at things logically and from all sides.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Have you guys seen the result of the vote to date? Public opinion is looking in our favour especially considering the vast majority of AFL.com.au readers would be Victorian.
Will the AFL's new bidding system be fairer? - AFL.com.au

[Bloods05]

I'm being truthful here. I've been involved in Footy clubs. This is how young men role. They are not the perfect, well mannered, boy next door young men that you think they all are.

It's reassuring to hear that you know what I think.

[Bloods05]

Have you guys seen the result of the vote to date? Public opinion is looking in our favour especially considering the vast majority of AFL.com.au readers would be Victorian.
Will the AFL's new bidding system be fairer? - AFL.com.au

Encouraging.

[707]

Hopefully the VFL old boys club (President is McGuire) isn't listened to in preference to those that have the game as a whole as their priority.

AFLPA is another sane voice of reason amongst the sea of VFL "sky is falling" idiots. How the AFL can allow McGuire to be involved in anything is amazing given his seriously demented rants about the academies.

[The Big Cat]

Talk in today's HS that Treloar (GWS) will be targetted by Collingwood along with several other Giants stars by Victorian clubs. Seems Eddie already has his NSW academy only he doesn't have to take a risk with drafting an untried player. He just goes and gets them when they prove to be a young gun. (The hypocrisy is mind numbing)

[Ludwig]

Talk in today's HS that Treloar (GWS) will be targetted by Collingwood along with several other Giants stars by Victorian clubs. Seems Eddie already has his NSW academy only he doesn't have to take a risk with drafting an untried player. He just goes and gets them when they prove to be a young gun. (The hypocrisy is mind numbing)

I don't think Eddie has a problem with the GWS academy. It's only the Swans academy that will bring ruination to the game. Melboune just love using GWS as their training centre for the first few years of a Victorian player's career. It also cuts down on the drafting risk.

Here's a good article from Richard Colless: http://news.google.com.au/news/url?s...5578044&at=dt0

I also had made the comment that I thought Chris Langford should step down, since he had a son playing for Hawthorn, although I never questioned his qualifications, just thought it was a conflict of interest. Now it seems that they will keep him around for the crucial vote on the academy bidding. It would have been nice to see him replaced by Michael Long.

Colless also seems to intimate that his comments might bring retribution upon the Swans. Interesting.

[Meg]

Colless: ?People are depressed, angry, disappointed but everyone is too gentlemanly to speak up,? he said.
Ah, we know who those gentleman are. Sigh! We love them but at times their good manners are very frustrating!

[S.S. Bleeder]

Colless: ?People are depressed, angry, disappointed but everyone is too gentlemanly to speak up,? he said.
Ah, we know who those gentleman are. Sigh! We love them but at times their good manners are very frustrating!

Before I even read the article I was thinking how great it would be to have Colless back. At least he had a little grunt in him.

[CureTheSane]

Colless: ?...at times their good manners are very frustrating!

Understatement of the year.