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Are people still going to defend the GIANTS Academy? All they do is pick players from footy areas in southern NSW and have them developed in Victorian private schools.
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Hardly their fault that they choose to go down there. Pretty sure Hopper moved because there is literally no football in Leeton. Setterfield I think is a family thing. Don't know much about Mutch (haha get it?) and McDonald actually moved because of a medical situation so he couldn't stay in the bush.
Also think that a lot of these kids from the Albury area (my home) would have been guns anyway. Not like the Giants academy do heaps in developing them. They have two or three camps and that's about it I think. The rest is training with local clubs and playing senior footy from a young age ala Kennedy or Macreadie, or playing for the Bushies.
I wouldn't say it's just NSW/ACT. Some APS schools do it as well, country blokes like Jy Simpkin, Will Broadie, Aidyn Johnson are boarding at Scotch.
I know it's not the same theory, but they develop them there.
Unfortunately I think the issue was with the midfielders. Too much handball leaving forwards out of position followed by greedy shots at goal. Anyone in the F50 had very little opportunity. It got worse as the champs progressed. Schache would have struggled to get a kick in the SA forward line the last few games!
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Watching vic country warm up... No 5 looks to be an excellent kick... Anyone know much about him?
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I think that's the problem in and of itself. GWS cover a larger area of NSW, where more kids play footy, where there are generally more footballers unearthed, yet they spend less money on their Academy than the Swans. That doesn't work out if the assumption is made that GWS put as much development into their prospects as the Swans.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the Academies controlled by the Swans and Lions, they need it and spend a lot of money that could be used elsewhere (and develop non-football areas, importantly), but a team spends less and gets much, much more, that doesn't sit right (not that it's GWS at fault, good on them for taking advantage of all the concessions).
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Looking forward to the media campaign by Eddie Maguire to try and force us into using picks 1 or 2 on Keays, somehow.
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Keays looks to be a much better prospect than hopper
Based on one game?
Won't happen as Gold Coast are not going to bid on him, obviously Brisbane won't either and I highly doubt Carlton, Melbourne or St Kilda would be too interested in that sort of player.
Supposedly 7 of the top 10 players in this years draft will probably be key position players and I doubt Keays is seen as a top 3 midfielder in the draft.
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You underestimate Eddies hatred of Brisbane/Academies.
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Just from what I'm watching.
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Skills are terrible.
What are these kids being taught?
What are these kids being taught?
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The academy is fine. It's the zoning that's the problem. Southern NSW probably shouldn't be zoned at all but that doesn't mean the whole house of cards needs tipping over with academies.
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Hopper stiff not to win the Harrison Medal?
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Closest thing to a Cyril clone I've seen. That attack in ball and evasiveness is just on another level.
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each of his legs have more talent than 10 sets of other legs on the field right now
that's just looking at my scouting notes though
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