Which local football clubs have been the most successful at producing AFL players?

[Norwood1878]

Sacred Heart - Adelaide

Hamish Hartlett
Bryce Gibbs
Sam Colqoun
Ben Kennedy
Cam Hitchcock
Andrew Mackie
Kane Cornes
Chad Cornes

Heaps more but cant remember

Porps
Ben Kennedy

Heaps of past players.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart_College_(Adelaide)

Rostrevor has pumped out a few too.

Tom Jonas
Josh Simpson
Henry Slattery
Jesse O'Brien
Jesse Stringer
Malcolm Karpany
Alex Spina
Luke Darcy
Ben Hart

 

[pokerspiv]

Lynwood Ferndale gave us Brad Dalziell

And Shane Woewodin IIRC

 

[pokerspiv]

Listing colleges is a bit of a cheat, since many of them offer athletic scholarships. Schools like Aquinas in WA produce most of the state's professional athletes each year.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Strathmore Football Club have named a number of VFL/AFL players as having been recruited from there:

Glenn Manton, Steven Clark, Ed Considine, Mark Eustice, Daryl Gerlach, Geoff Gosper, Michael Thompson, Adam Contessa, Lance Picioane, Scott West, Jackson Trengrove, Ryan O'Keefe, James Polkinghorne.

Includes some very good names going back to the 60's.

Coached by Digby Morrell

Up the Mores!

 

[Spook]

Josh and Matt Carr, Ibbotson and as mentioned Simon Black and Ben Cousins plus Jonathan Hay.

Josh and Matt Carr are from Go allying aren't they?

 

[Stax on the mill]

Coached by Digby Morrell

Up the Mores!

Going well on top at the moment. Digby now coaching West Coburg in the next grade down. Also on top. Good man.

 

[Bobby_]

Sandringham Dragons & Murray Bushrangers have been pretty active in recent drafts.

 

[harmesy 37]

http://wafc.com.au/news/2847/wafl-clubs-rule-the-roost-in-the-recruiting-stakes

this was accurate a year ago, but the rate of recruiting from the Geelong Falcons and the Calder Cannons will eclipse WA clubs by this year.

 

[jordz82]

IIRC Salisbury North FC produced some good talent, Michael O'Loughlin, Burgoyne bros and others

 

[franjon]

Sloane is from Upwey.

Was gonna say. Would've been a helluva long drive to training 3 times a week.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I don't think schools offering "scholarships" really count as "producing" players.

Same goes for TAC clubs which are representative footy, as is state league footy these days really.

 

[clogged]

I think Bullcreek Leeming Junior Football Club wins in the modern era.

Three Brownlow medallists (Black, Cousins, Woewodin). Five premierships (Black x 3, Josh Carr, Ben Cousins). One Norm Smith (Black). Two Rising Stars (Cousins, Palmer).

 

[the_interloper]

Yeah well *insert my local club* have produced *random footballers such as Peter Foster, Wayne Blackwell, Ty Esler etc* so we're awesome.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Walkerville - Will Minson , Angus Monfries , Ed Lower , Nick Lower , Nick Duigan ,

Payneham - George Horlin Smith , Alex Forster , Tom Jonas , Joel Patfull

 

[Rod Stroker]

Going well on top at the moment. Digby now coaching West Coburg in the next grade down. Also on top. Good man.

Yeah I knew he'd left. Indeed a good bloke.

 

[Silvagnis]

Midvale Junior Football Club rolled out Nicholas Naitanui, Jarrad Blight, Chris Yarran, Michael Walters and Jeff Garlett in one draft.

Plus David Ellard in the previous draft.

 

[clivenator26]

Bullcreek-Leeming has the quality.

Whitford JFC has the Van Berlo brothers, Brett Heady, Ryan Turnbull, Andrew Donnelly, Steven Browne, Michael Pettigrew - not classy players but not a bad effort & there may be a couple I am forgetting.

Kingsley JFC has the one & only Kepler Bradley.

 

[E Shed]

Josh and Matt Carr are from Go allying aren't they?

I'm just quoting from the their club page http://www.bljfc.com.au/the-club/

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

St Josephs in the Geelong Footy League would be up there,
off the top of my head they have produced Matthew Scarlett, Cameron Ling, Nick Maxwell, Taylor Adams, Barry Stoneham, plus many others

I'd go with this, St Joeys, particular pre-draft days when clubs had their zones.

 

[blueboy25]

Bullcreek-Leeming has the quality.

Whitford JFC has the Van Berlo brothers, Brett Heady, Ryan Turnbull, Andrew Donnelly, Steven Browne, Michael Pettigrew - not classy players but not a bad effort & there may be a couple I am forgetting.

Kingsley JFC has the one & only Kepler Bradley.

LeCras brothers are Whitfords as well and Josh Smith who played at North for a couple of years.

At one stage Le Cras, Van Berlo and Smith were all playing in the same junior side.

Jarrad Schofield was a kingsley boy I think.

 

[MattyB_76]

It's a very open-ended question. In SA you can play in a Junior District League, a School league (public or private) or play for the Junior team of an SANFL club. And a player will most likely play for all of the above at some time in their junior career (if we're looking for the better ones). I assume it's the same in Vic, WA and a much lesser extent in non-AFL states.

So which club 'produced' them?

The technical answer is "Mr and Mrs Selwood" have been the most successful at producing AFL players.

 

[blueboy25]

The technical answer is "Mr and Mrs Selwood" have been the most successful at producing AFL players.

Mr and Mrs Daniher gave it a fair crack as well

 

[Go the Biff]

Managatang Football Club, particularly their thirds.

From what I can gather they must be very strong.

I can't count the number of players I've been told wouldn't get a game for Manangatang thirds

 

[PumpyChowdown]

Palm Beach-Currumbin State High School

Darius Boyd - NRL, Qld, Australia
Ben Hannent - NRL, Qld, Australia
Ben Ikin - NRL, Qld, Australia
Shannon Walker - NRL, Australia (7's)
Kevin Proctor - NRL, New Zealand
Sam Perrett - NRL, New Zealand
Demitri Pelo - NRL, France
Anthony Watts - NRL
Scott Anderson - NRL
Brad Davis - NRL
Will Matthews - NRL
Kevin Kingston - NRL
Clint Amos - NRL

Mick Fanning - World Surfing Champ
Joel Parkinson - World Surfing Champ

Karla Gilbert - Aust. Ironwoman Champ

 

[TheKITC]

Sandhurst Footy Club in the Bendigo league have produced 50 or so AFL/VFL players...

Troy, Adam, Joel and Scott Selwood
Nick Dal Santo
Ben and Michael Sexton
Geoff Southby
Trevor Keogh
Arthur Graham
Fred Swift
Kevin 'Shifter' Sheehan
Peter Rohde
Brian Walsh
Andrew Collins

etc.