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Without putting a downer on this too much.... I still think we will finish above syd and Freo both have pretty similarly bad injury lists to ours.... now not sure how this pts deficit works as to whether we will stick get a pick in before them... but you would think the would be keen on both dgb and lmac.... although they do have plenty of talls forward and back just can't get majority of them on the park...


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Mmmm maybe.

Depends how clubs rate Campbell. Top 10, definitely, but will a bid fall after our pick is to be seen. Usually, academy/nga/fs picks have been bid later than they should do.

Bit of a risk in it from our end on losing out on top 10 pick next year with a very good top end who will likely have exposed form.

On Roos front, reckon you would be looking very closely at McDonald.
Is he playing this year?
 
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And with pick 2, North Melbourne have selected...MIKE HUNT from Kalgoorlie!
Gold capital of the world and my cousin tells me apparently the town is absolutely flying with the gold price sky rocketing every day.

Some good AFL footballers come from there too.
 
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Mmmm maybe.

Depends how clubs rate Campbell. Top 10, definitely, but will a bid fall after our pick is to be seen. Usually, academy/nga/fs picks have been bid later than they should do.

Bit of a risk in it from our end on losing out on top 10 pick next year with a very good top end who will likely have exposed form.

On Roos front, reckon you would be looking very closely at McDonald.

And brown for papley - straight swap
 

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I have faith we can finish bellow sydney and freo, syd are showing fight and freo are in their home hub. Crows have shown a bit lately, they're due for a couple of wins
 
AFL Academy loophole may lead James Borlase, son of Port Adelaide premiership captain Darryl Borlase, to Crows
The AFL created its Next Generation Academies to boost its pool of multicultural players. But a loophole in the system could put the son of a Port Adelaide great in the hands of bitter rival the Crows.
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The son of a 246-game Port Adelaide premiership captain is in line to become a Crow via a “staggering” loophole of the AFL Next Generation Academy system.

James Borlase, a key defender whose father Darryl won four SANFL flags with Port, including as skipper in 1998, is generating significant interest from recruiters, but Adelaide has access to him in this year’s draft as an African-born player in its zone and can match rival clubs’ bids.

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The Egypt-born 18-year-old is ineligible to join Port as a father-son selection due to Darryl falling short of the required minimum of 200 games before the Power’s AFL entry in 1997.

Port and the SANFL listed Darryl on 201 games after the 1996 state league grand final but that included Escort Cup clashes, which the AFL did not count towards his total – 167 matches.

James, who was a member of the All-Australian under-15 team in 2017 and last year played in the under-17 “futures game” at the MCG on AFL grand final day, was born in Cairo in 2002 when Darryl was working there for two years with the Australian Wheat Board.


James has emerged through junior ranks at SANFL club Sturt, which is aligned to the Crows via under the NGA program.

He would have been in Port’s NGA if he had grown up just two streets southwest.

An interstate club’s recruiter, who did not want to be named, said developing the son of a former SANFL captain was not the purpose of the academies, which were introduced in 2016.


According to the AFL website, the NGAs aim to grow participation in under-represented parts of the community and increase the talent pool of Indigenous and multicultural players.

“If you’re at the Crows, you’d be saying ‘that’s just the rules’ regarding Borlase, but if you’re at Port you’re going ‘that’s just ridiculous’,” the recruiter told News Corp.

“When the AFL brought this whole program in it was all about giving boys born overseas or boys with parents born overseas an opportunity to play AFL footy.

“This is staggering in some ways that Borlase falls under that system, but it’s the system.”

James has played 10 reserves matches for Sturt over the past two seasons while splitting time between the club and Prince Alfred College, where he usually lines up as a forward.

Standing 191cm and 88kg, he has a striking physique with wide shoulders and long arms.


His mum Jenny – Darryl’s wife – is a three-time Netball World Cup winner for Australia and 1998 Commonwealth Games medallist.

The Borlases did not want to comment for this story.

But in a YouTube interview in March, James said he could not remember anything from his time in Egypt.

He said it would have been “lovely” to follow in his dad’s footsteps at Port, but he just wanted him to have the best opportunity to play football.

“It is what it is and we can’t do much about it now,” James told “Into the Fire”.

“Sometimes (Dad) likes to show us the tapes of some of his better games but he’s quite modest and doesn’t like to talk about it too much.”

James said he had enjoyed his involvement with Adelaide, including training at the club in December, but the Crows “haven’t given away too much” about possibly drafting him.

He said he modelled his game on two All-Australian backmen: Richmond’s Dylan Grimes and Crow Daniel Talia.

Sturt football manager Chris Trapp said the club spoke regularly with recruiters about James, who might play league football this year.

“He’s been super for us,” Trapp said.

“He’s obviously got nice physical attributes and is really composed with ball in hand, and has just fitted into the senior program really well.

Young Borlase is generating plenty of hype. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
Young Borlase is generating plenty of hype. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
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“He’s certainly getting a lot of interest.

“We meet regularly with (Crows academies manager) Jarrod Meers … and they’ve looked after him well, and I suppose it’s just the way it is with the alignment.

“I’m sure Port are probably disappointed.”

James played in the college competition for Prince Alfred on Saturday, kicking three goals in a season-opening 93-point win over Rostrevor.

PAC’s director of co-curricular activities Troy McKinnon said James, the First XVIII’s deputy vice-captain, had significant talent.

“James is a leader in our program and this has come about through great character and intent to help the team and represent the college well,” McKinnon said.

AFL rules state that players qualify for the NGA if they are born in Africa or Asia, have a biological parent born in one of those two continents, are Indigenous or are from a government-defined culturally and linguistically diverse population.

An AFL spokesman said a committee evaluated NGA prospects and the league’s general counsel, Andrew Dillon, had to approve them.

The spokesman said there were examples where eligibility rules did not cover every possible scenario, but players still had to go through a bidding process where other clubs could determine their market value.

Adelaide also access to North Adelaide goalsneak Tariek Newchurch via its NGA this year.

The Crows did not want to comment.

Port challenged the AFL ruling on Darryl’s games count before and until 2018.

That year, Power football manager Chris Davies called Darryl a club great and said Port was disappointed James did not qualify as a father-son selection.
 
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Much as I'd love to, trading our first for theirs plus their R1 next year, as has been suggested earlier, is a no brainer for both clubs.

It's also extremely unlikely.

If for some reason they don't go for it we bid on Campbell.

Force their hands.

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Mmmm maybe.

Depends how clubs rate Campbell. Top 10, definitely, but will a bid fall after our pick is to be seen. Usually, academy/nga/fs picks have been bid later than they should do.

Bit of a risk in it from our end on losing out on top 10 pick next year with a very good top end who will likely have exposed form.

On Roos front, reckon you would be looking very closely at McDonald.
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We're just going to screw the swans because we can (most likely).
 

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AFL Academy loophole may lead James Borlase, son of Port Adelaide premiership captain Darryl Borlase, to Crows
The AFL created its Next Generation Academies to boost its pool of multicultural players. But a loophole in the system could put the son of a Port Adelaide great in the hands of bitter rival the Crows.
Matt Turner, The Advertiser

Subscriber only
|
July 29, 2020 12:07pm


https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...y/news-story/cf526e0cb6754fc279652d3f20f42fa1
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The son of a 246-game Port Adelaide premiership captain is in line to become a Crow via a “staggering” loophole of the AFL Next Generation Academy system.

James Borlase, a key defender whose father Darryl won four SANFL flags with Port, including as skipper in 1998, is generating significant interest from recruiters, but Adelaide has access to him in this year’s draft as an African-born player in its zone and can match rival clubs’ bids.

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The Egypt-born 18-year-old is ineligible to join Port as a father-son selection due to Darryl falling short of the required minimum of 200 games before the Power’s AFL entry in 1997.

Port and the SANFL listed Darryl on 201 games after the 1996 state league grand final but that included Escort Cup clashes, which the AFL did not count towards his total – 167 matches.

James, who was a member of the All-Australian under-15 team in 2017 and last year played in the under-17 “futures game” at the MCG on AFL grand final day, was born in Cairo in 2002 when Darryl was working there for two years with the Australian Wheat Board.


James has emerged through junior ranks at SANFL club Sturt, which is aligned to the Crows via under the NGA program.

He would have been in Port’s NGA if he had grown up just two streets southwest.

An interstate club’s recruiter, who did not want to be named, said developing the son of a former SANFL captain was not the purpose of the academies, which were introduced in 2016.


According to the AFL website, the NGAs aim to grow participation in under-represented parts of the community and increase the talent pool of Indigenous and multicultural players.

“If you’re at the Crows, you’d be saying ‘that’s just the rules’ regarding Borlase, but if you’re at Port you’re going ‘that’s just ridiculous’,” the recruiter told News Corp.

“When the AFL brought this whole program in it was all about giving boys born overseas or boys with parents born overseas an opportunity to play AFL footy.

“This is staggering in some ways that Borlase falls under that system, but it’s the system.”

James has played 10 reserves matches for Sturt over the past two seasons while splitting time between the club and Prince Alfred College, where he usually lines up as a forward.

Standing 191cm and 88kg, he has a striking physique with wide shoulders and long arms.


His mum Jenny – Darryl’s wife – is a three-time Netball World Cup winner for Australia and 1998 Commonwealth Games medallist.

The Borlases did not want to comment for this story.

But in a YouTube interview in March, James said he could not remember anything from his time in Egypt.

He said it would have been “lovely” to follow in his dad’s footsteps at Port, but he just wanted him to have the best opportunity to play football.

“It is what it is and we can’t do much about it now,” James told “Into the Fire”.

“Sometimes (Dad) likes to show us the tapes of some of his better games but he’s quite modest and doesn’t like to talk about it too much.”

James said he had enjoyed his involvement with Adelaide, including training at the club in December, but the Crows “haven’t given away too much” about possibly drafting him.

He said he modelled his game on two All-Australian backmen: Richmond’s Dylan Grimes and Crow Daniel Talia.

Sturt football manager Chris Trapp said the club spoke regularly with recruiters about James, who might play league football this year.

“He’s been super for us,” Trapp said.

“He’s obviously got nice physical attributes and is really composed with ball in hand, and has just fitted into the senior program really well.

Young Borlase is generating plenty of hype. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
Young Borlase is generating plenty of hype. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
MORE AFL

Edwards could become Crows’ third father-son selection

Port may need to trade up to get Next Gen prospect

Rich 100: Which stars are taking less to keep flag lists together?

“He’s certainly getting a lot of interest.

“We meet regularly with (Crows academies manager) Jarrod Meers … and they’ve looked after him well, and I suppose it’s just the way it is with the alignment.

“I’m sure Port are probably disappointed.”

James played in the college competition for Prince Alfred on Saturday, kicking three goals in a season-opening 93-point win over Rostrevor.

PAC’s director of co-curricular activities Troy McKinnon said James, the First XVIII’s deputy vice-captain, had significant talent.

“James is a leader in our program and this has come about through great character and intent to help the team and represent the college well,” McKinnon said.

AFL rules state that players qualify for the NGA if they are born in Africa or Asia, have a biological parent born in one of those two continents, are Indigenous or are from a government-defined culturally and linguistically diverse population.

An AFL spokesman said a committee evaluated NGA prospects and the league’s general counsel, Andrew Dillon, had to approve them.

The spokesman said there were examples where eligibility rules did not cover every possible scenario, but players still had to go through a bidding process where other clubs could determine their market value.

Adelaide also access to North Adelaide goalsneak Tariek Newchurch via its NGA this year.

The Crows did not want to comment.

Port challenged the AFL ruling on Darryl’s games count before and until 2018.

That year, Power football manager Chris Davies called Darryl a club great and said Port was disappointed James did not qualify as a father-son selection.
But this was a non story with the Blakey garbage.
 
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