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TheSheik
14 Oct 2003, 00:10
During my golf trip to 13th Beach, we stayed at the Ocean Grove Hotel. Also staying there was all the younger lads from the Maryborough Rovers FC on an end of season trip. One of them was top 10 draft prospect Troy Chaplin who has played with North Ballarat Rebels.

Had a long chat with 'Charlie' and found out he has been spoken to by 9 clubs and is confident of being picked up by someone. Thought that Port coach Mark Williams was an absolute nutter after the weird line of questioning he received.

At the draft camp most of the guys got along real well and their is a stack of really good players in this years lot. He rated Kepler Bradley as a gun player, Colin Sylvia as the better player over Kane Tenace and that Fergus Watts is a complete ****. He also gave me big raps on one of his team-mates, an nuggety half-back called 'Sellers' who also played at the Rebels. Doubtful he will get drafted but assured me he should at least be given a go on a rookie list.

Read into that what you will ??

Falconer02
14 Oct 2003, 00:45
seems like a nice guy,thanks for that.

Does he look well developed?

dasler
14 Oct 2003, 00:59
Interesting comments about Fergus Watts. From all the WA lads, Colin Sylvia was rated as the best there that I've spoken to also.

Interesting thanks for that insight sheik

Falconer02
14 Oct 2003, 01:20
so Fergus is crap or a ********? or both?

Adrenaline
14 Oct 2003, 01:32
Originally posted by Falconer02
so Fergus is crap or a ********? or both?

Not sure if Fergus is a W%$#&r, but he can take a contested mark (against Chaplin too) at least 11 from what i counted.

Sylvia is a jet and i agree, better than Tenace.

I rate the the On Ballers in order of Sylvia Dunn then Tenace. ( for what Carlton needs)

There is no way known people could convince me that Tenace is an insider player.

TheSheik
14 Oct 2003, 09:53
Chaplin was around the 6'3" mark, pretty solid lad actually, nice country boy who seemed to have his head reasonably well screwed on. In regards to Watts, he was not liked by anyone at the camp, they all thought he was a deadset @rsehole !!

There were a few other little snippets but as I was on my 40th bundy & coke, I can't remember them all !! :D