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Good to see at least one match at Tramway, even if only a NEAFL practice match. Great opportunity to see our new recruits in action.
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I noticed that we have listed our NEAFL players outside of our main list. No Campbell or Gulden. I'm assuming they are still academy players and as such can be used as top ups when required?Comment
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I think the 7 players listed turn 19 this year and were draft eligible last year. I think as overage players this means they can still train with the team and play in the reserves.Comment
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Where did you notice this? I can't see it on the Swans website. I just checked the NEAFL page and found this - Players | Season | NEAFL - but it changed from being out of date (e.g. including Durak Tucker) to just having our current list with no extras while I was on the page.All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)Comment
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They remain part of the academy and play the academy series, and even allies if they are a late developer. The neafl rules provide that the four afl clubs nominate up to 7 NDS players. This doesn't stop them playing a gulden or campbell. However given they already know gulden and campbell, it is questionable whether they would flog them in the neafl too much. I don't think blakey, mills or heeney played much neafl.Comment
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Will be interesting to see but I think they are more likely to play these guys in the NEAFL than the academy series. Like you say , unless they are a late developer , I would have thought the academy would be more focused on giving the 18s and some 17s a go at the academy series and if I was a 19 I would rather play NEAFL and show I could handle that.
As for Gulden and Campbell, I think your right, their top priority will be showing through the academy series and allies games that they rightly deserve their position in the draft. This will be particularly relevant this year as their are more games against Melbourne teams than last year .Comment
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Hmmm, it seems that we've been searching for stuff, while the NEAFL page has been updating. Last night, I eventually found the previously mentioned list, but it seems to have now disappeared as a separate entity. But if you go to the page that you linked to and change 'all clubs' to 'Sydney Swans' that will give you a list, that now includes the seven academy players: numbers 50-56. All of them were eligible for the last draft, but didn't get picked up or didn't go somewhere else, like the SANFL: which Ellem and Parks apparently did.
I assume that the club thinks they're promising enough, to have a chance of earning an eventual promotion. Thinking back to last season, I certainly think that Thorne has a good chance.Comment
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Will be interesting with the few that stayed on - some will be there for the further experience and Im sure hoping for a promotion but the reality is that few players get taken from the 19s - Brown was the only one I can think of and he only lasted a year on the list.
From a list management perspective, agree that Thorne is probably the pick of them but his chances will have been hurt by Gulden who is pretty much the same type of player but better. Unless they are looking for two small endurance midfielders he will find it difficult to be picked up by the swans.Comment
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James Bell. Swans Academy product James Bell signed with the Swans in the 2017 Rookie Draft and fares as an exciting prospect this season. He is a speedy midfielder who will again be key to the Swans’ NEAFL side and should continue to come a long way in training alongside elite on-ballers Josh Kennedy and Dan Hannebery.
I know these are only 2019 bio's but this has to be 2018 bio for Bell. We also still have Nick Smith on our list! Is it too hard for someone to proof read some of this rubbish they put up.Comment
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Here's the list:
Jackson Barling
17/08/2001
183cm
84kg
North Shore Bombers
Nicholas Brewer
14/03/2001
186cm
75kg
North Shore Bombers
Samuel Gaden
07/03/2001
195cm
94kg
UNSW Bulldogs
Max Geddes
21/03/2001
182cm
72kg
UNSW Bulldogs
Harry Maguire
27/01/2001
193cm
88kg
Pennant Hills
Samuel Thorne
19/05/2001
178cm
77kg
UNSW Bulldogs
Reed van Huisstede
10/02/2001
195cm
89kg
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