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Banks won’t be linked to our academy though will he? I thought it was only on indigenous/multi cultural players
I reckon Boomer could have played 500.Sam Banks' dad played 550 games!!
There was a bloke from out the back of Nimbin who played 500 senior games, well into his 50s, but didn't get to 550.
Multicultural can mean many things.
Matt McGuiness isn't exactly a multi-cultural name, it's my understanding if that's his name included in our earlier NGA academies lists, he has to be eligible to be included.
Here's the formal rules, it can be as simple as being born in certain areas overseas. Or if one of his parents was born overseas on work assignments etc, which is what we've seen a few times and with someone like Borlaise next year who was born whilst his parents worked in Egypt for 2 years.
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Multicultural can mean many things.
Matt McGuiness isn't exactly a multi-cultural name, it's my understanding if that's his name included in our earlier NGA academies lists, he has to be eligible to be included.
Here's the formal rules, it can be as simple as being born in certain areas overseas. Or if one of his parents was born overseas on work assignments etc, which is what we've seen a few times and with someone like Borlaise next year who was born whilst his parents worked in Egypt for 2 years.
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You would think that they would widen their parameters in regards to ‘Multicultural’. Surely if somebody has immigrated from say...Albania or Germany, that would also qualify them?
That is wide open for rorting.
But hopefully Banks qualifies.
The funny thing is, Collingwood are cleaning up with their affluent zone at the moment through the Doncaster through to Kew area of the Oakleigh zone.
They got Quaynor last year, they have 2 top prospects next year and have one of the u/16 AA wingmen in 2021.
It's a good zone for the rules, as there's a lot of expats, or corporate types that have had kids whilst working overseas.
Which is completely against what it originally set out to help.
Every other club is rorting it, so we need the wins when we can get them.
Fremantle and WC will have a production line of WA indigenous kids for the foreseeable future.
Basically all of them come from rural areas anyway.
Banks won’t be linked to our academy though will he? I thought it was only on indigenous/multi cultural players
Do we have any NGA eligible players likely to get drafted next year?