Quite often it's the players who miss the Championship squads who pick up the Morrish, because they get more games at TAC level. Last year Clayton Oliver won it, who didn't play champs. i think our boy Nick Graham won it, who didn't play champs. But it also can go to the bigger names, Kreuzer and Dyson Heppell are two higher draft picks who have collected the award. McLuggage must have had some sort of season to pick it up off limited games.
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How this kid is not available to us through father/son is just wrong his grandfather played something like 150 games for us and his father 39 complete joke!
Grandfather Son rule? I don't mind it. Perhaps we get the same kind of 'dibs' on a player but with no/minimal discount?
Considering his grandfather played 150 games i would have thought with his father playing 39 should be suffice ? Why is there even a number of games needed if you play 1 game at afl/vfl level youve played afl so therefore should qualify . Theyve changed the number of games to qualify for father/son about 5 times over the years . You dont think with 189 games between his father/gfather is reason enough that hes got a bloodline that bleeds blue ?
There probably should be a qualifier taking in grandfather playing . Obviously doesnt happen too often but i would think if you have 3 generations of men good enough to play afl the 3rd should qualify automatically for any club .
Collingwood could have said the same thing about Weideman last year. The draft is already compromised enough as it is without including grandchildren, if we want him bad enough we can still get him.
Tell that to the Mckay boys harry and ben evidently they didnt want to be near each other .
I get the feeling they are the type of twins where every contest ends up in punch ups, rather than the type that finish each others sentencesTell that to the Mckay boys harry and ben evidently they didnt want to be near each other .
Yes exactly it is compromised and in huge favor of the new sides . Im staggered that people feel otherwise wouldnt be many other families so ingrained in a club than the kerrs .
If there was a rule in place like this last season and Collingwood had a free hit at Weideman, we would have missed out on Charlie Curnow and would have got the next player on the list. I don't like the vast region GWS have as an academy because they are just getting free hits at kids who have been playing footy their whole lives, but I actually think the academy's are a good idea. It is clear that the northern clubs have significant trouble keeping players, they do need some home grown talent so if we are increasing the talent pool through academy's I actually don't have a problem with them.
