WSYD GWS Giants Academy Zone - How much longer?

[Malte]

Wasn't this meant to be subject to a review?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...m/news-story/8f0c11b65b9c7561d5bf134055e4d6f8

Is it not enough that they have one of the best lists in the competition? Is it not enough that they're current flag favorites? Were all those draft picks, mini-draft picks, uncontracted player concessions and increased salary cap space handed to them on a plate not enough? Even last year, they got first dibs on 3 of the top 20 prospects because their zone is so huge.

Sydney I can understand; they invest a lot of time and resources into their smaller zone, none of which is AFL heartland, but GWS was just handed the rest of New South Wales with the AFL doing all the work.

How much longer before this joke ends? Are the AFL waiting for GWS to win that flag? At this point, they don't even care about stockpiling picks; they're trading up to ensure they get one of the best prospects, while still getting their zone players in Setterfield and Perryman for cut-price deals.

 

[vide0n]

Pretty sure most of the public word is meaningless, get the feeling that Gil is just throwing whatever out there

I think once he floated giving Riverina to us - errr what? That's not quite in QLD

 

[Upgrayedd]

Untill the AFL themselves can develop a great recruiting strategy in luring youn NSW boys to play AFL and give them a legi pathway and structure.


So.
..never? Afl failed big time. Swans and GWS have bailed it so far in a short amount of time. So i dont think the AFL will scrap it

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

After their second flag

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Shock, horror - NSW AFL clubs have a recruitment zone in......NSW.

Although if not-at-all-dodgy former NSW MP Eddie Obeid were to sell the Riverina to China - for cash - then that zone would presumably pass to Port Adelaide...

 

[Garlic muncher]

Wasn't this meant to be subject to a review?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...m/news-story/8f0c11b65b9c7561d5bf134055e4d6f8

Is it not enough that they have one of the best lists in the competition? Is it not enough that they're current flag favorites? Were all those draft picks, mini-draft picks, uncontracted player concessions and increased salary cap space handed to them on a plate not enough? Even last year, they got first dibs on 3 of the top 20 prospects because their zone is so huge.

Sydney I can understand; they invest a lot of time and resources into their smaller zone, none of which is AFL heartland, but GWS was just handed the rest of New South Wales with the AFL doing all the work.

How much longer before this joke ends? Are the AFL waiting for GWS to win that flag? At this point, they don't even care about stockpiling picks; they're trading up to ensure they get one of the best prospects, while still getting their zone players in Setterfield and Perryman for cut-price deals.

At a guess Sydneys smaller zone has a much bigger population

 

[jameses]

At a guess Sydneys smaller zone has a much bigger population

That s true, but I would guess more AFL footballers have come out of the Riverina area than Sydney.

 

[mightymouse75]

The monster has arrived.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

That s true, but I would guess more AFL footballers have come out of the Riverina area than Sydney.

True in the past, but false in the future...

 

[Headless]

Longer? I think the zone should be shorter if anything; it seems quite large.

 

[Deliverance]

Ummm, they haven't achieved anything yet.

 

[jameses]

True in the past, but false in the future...

I am from NSW so I love the game is growing here in the non-traditional areas (like you say, the Sydney metro), and I have already noticed the immediate impact the Giants have had. But I just struggle with this exclusive right to these zones that the Giants have.

 

[jedi mind tricks]

I am from NSW so I love the game is growing here in the non-traditional areas (like you say, the Sydney metro), and I have already noticed the immediate impact the Giants have had. But I just struggle with this exclusive right to these zones that the Giants have.

I'm all for growing the game. Would be foolish by the AFL not too. I understand the need for regions to help develop the game and to lure players to the their home state.

The objection I have is the ease they can aquire these players and manipulate the draft.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

I am from NSW so I love the game is growing here in the non-traditional areas (like you say, the Sydney metro), and I have already noticed the immediate impact the Giants have had. But I just struggle with this exclusive right to these zones that the Giants have.

Personally, I struggle with:

1. 2016 Grand Finalists and multi-premiership winning Swan's far-more-generous zone.

2. GF always played on your home ground, while we got one game there in 2016.

3. Dogs getting the first few months fixtures at Etihad.

Swings and roundabouts though, just best not to moan - particularly if you're coming off a three-peat, while we've NEVER won a single game against the Pies.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

I'm all for growing the game. Would be foolish by the AFL not too. I understand the need for regions to help develop the game and to lure players to the their home state.

The objection I have is the ease they can aquire these players and manipulate the draft.

By "manipulate the draft", you mean follow all the rules to the exact letter?

 

[Garlic muncher]

That s true, but I would guess more AFL footballers have come out of the Riverina area than Sydney.

Isaac heeney' s everywhere

 

[jedi mind tricks]

By "manipulate the draft", you mean follow all the rules to the exact letter?

Manipulation and cheating are two different things. All clubs try to manipulate the draft to benefit themselves. GWS have a full house each year due to the special arrangements the afl have created for them and it will continue

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Manipulation and cheating are two different things. All clubs try to manipulate the draft to benefit themselves. GWS have a full house each year due to the special arrangements the afl have created for them and it will continue

As in same salary cap and list size as every other club?

 

[Garlic muncher]

... #1 sport on what basis?

Name a bigger sport in the southern Riverina - I dare ya!!

 

[Bostonian]

As in same salary cap and list size as every other club?

As in being able to draft anyone they like from VIC, SA, WA but those same states not being able to have open access to the players from QLD and NSW.

The fact you can lay claim to Setterfield and pick him up for a pittance is an absolute piss take of the highest order.

 

[jedi mind tricks]

As in same salary cap and list size as every other club?

First draft since inception

 

[Maddo11]

Name a bigger sport in the southern Riverina - I dare ya!!

Cricket

 

[jedi mind tricks]

Cricket

During winter

 

[Maddo11]

During winter

Indoor cricket

 

[Kwality]

Name a bigger sport in the southern Riverina - I dare ya!!

.... some of the southern areas like the Riverina, where the AFL has been the #1 sport for 100 years

You on about the Riverina OR the southern Riverina? The #1 sport, it must be easy to clarify ...