Why not have a Tigers Academy like the Swans?

[Mr Magic]

We can have links through, the Queanbeyan Tigers, Albury Tigers, Wagga Tigers, Claremont Tigers etc... etc...

That way we can compete like the Swans!

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Prepared to spend $1m like the swans do for their academies (and that's after the afl subsidy )?

 

[Mr Magic]

Prepared to spend $1m like the swans do for their academies (and that's after the afl subsidy )?

might be worthwhile, have to do a business case

 

[nut]

Prepared to spend $1m like the swans do for their academies (and that's after the afl subsidy )?

And we will just get the AFL to fix up the bill

 

[Mr Magic]

Few home Games at Cairns v GC without Ablett no profit to AFL HQ.

wins all around for Tigerland

 

[Ned_Flanders]

might be worthwhile, have to do a business case

600 players processed, 1 (maybe 2) have made it to AFL, and then you still have to F/S bid for them

 

[Calcium Man]

600 players processed, 1 (maybe 2) have made it to AFL, and then you still have to F/S bid for them

If the AFL even allowed it. I have no problem with the setup Sydney have right now. If they start producing 5-6 AFL level players it adds to the talent pool and this year there looks like a few will get drafted.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

If the AFL even allowed it. I have no problem with the setup Sydney have right now. If they start producing 5-6 AFL level players it adds to the talent pool and this year there looks like a few will get drafted.

That's a big if. So far we have a total of one, at an outlay of $300k for the lions and much more for the swans

Your spending potentially as much as we do on our VFL team for a 0.18% strike rate

 

[Ned_Flanders]

And we will just get the AFL to fix up the bill

The afl contribution is $250k, the clubs bear the rest.

If the afl is not willing to fully subsidize this for expansion league clubs, no chance they will for us

 

[Calcium Man]

That's a big if. So far we have a total of one, at an outlay of $300k for the lions and much more for the swans

Your spending potentially as much as we do on our VFL team for a 0.18% strike rate

How long has it been going for?? Yet to get the first generation through it yet. Sports academy's take a good ten years at best to start producing consistent results.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

How long has it been going for?? Yet to get the first generation through it yet. Sports academy's take a good ten years at best to start producing consistent results.

The swans one has been up since 2010, processing approx 500 players a year (from their website)

This is an important point. We are not talking personal training here. With these sorts of numbers it is a sausage factory, and more akin to a clinic.

Players start as young as 11, so you'd expect a massive drop off as they hit the mid teens and kids naturally start rationalizing the sports they do.

For the huge cost involved, I just think we can get better bang for our buck using the resources elsewhere.

This helps the NSW/QLD clubs build a footy culture in their states a notch slightly above grassroots. It's hardly an elite training program like the soccer ones in the uk.

 

[nut]

The afl contribution is $250k, the clubs bear the rest.
If the afl is not willing to fully subsidize this for expansion league clubs, no chance they will for us

????? the swans are pretty much fully subsidized..... they would have gone broke years ago otherwise.

 

[Frustrated Tiger]

Few home Games at Cairns v GC without Ablett no profit to AFL HQ.

wins all around for Tigerland

Yeah, that went well didn't it. ........

 

[theflea]

????? the swans are pretty much fully subsidized..... they would have gone broke years ago otherwise.

The swans academy as an isolated entity is subsidised by the afl as is the other northern states academies to the tune of 250k.

 

[nut]

The swans academy as an isolated entity is subsidised by the afl as is the other northern states academies to the tune of 250k.

and the AFL picks up the bill..... Sydney run at a loss every year

 

[theflea]

and the AFL picks up the bill..... Sydney run at a loss every year

I understand your point(being that the swans are bankrolled still), I was just clarifying the part that the afl is paying for some of the cost. I don't think the swans is bankrolled these days the same as they were in yesteryear.

 

[SunshineBoy]

????? the swans are pretty much fully subsidized..... they would have gone broke years ago otherwise.

what do you mean would have, they have on five occasions.

 

[flaps]

You mean this academy?

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-04-10/richmond-announces-tassie-tigers-partnership

 

[fargothegreat]

You mean this academy?

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-04-10/richmond-announces-tassie-tigers-partnership

The Tigers are by far the worst team in the TSL. They are terrible

 

[Tiger71]

I think we should have one, name it Tyrone Vickery house or something similar

 

[Ned_Flanders]

I think we should have one, name it Tyrone Vickery house or something similar

We were gunna call it the "Dean Cox Memorial School for Kids Who Can't Take a Punch Good and Want to Throw Elbows Good Too", but the eagles advised us they got in first

 

[SpudsLoveChild]

You mean this academy?

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-04-10/richmond-announces-tassie-tigers-partnership

Awesome...players who love their sister and have six toes are so hot right now.

 

[flaps]

The Tigers are by far the worst team in the TSL. They are terrible

That's because they're 16. That and the TSL is shithouse.

 

[flaps]

Awesome...players who love their sister and have six toes are so hot right now.

Unique call that one.