Academy 2020 Father/Son, NGA and Academy Prospects - The Compromised Draft

[THE_GUN]

Hey, this seems as good a place as any for a question that just popped into my head.

Nik Cox's dad, Darryl Cox, played 16 games for Fitzroy, 13 for Melbourne and 1 for the Bears.

Assume he'd managed 50 apiece for Fitzroy and the Bears pre-merger - would he qualify as F/S for the Lions?

Im pretty sure he would as the Lions/Fitzroy are now the 1 club and share their history

 

[Roylion]

My understanding is that it would be the same as the Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions were probably in a strictly legal sense separate entities.

Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions are exactly the same legal entity with the same AFL licence.

The Brisbane Lions were formed in 1987. For the first ten years of their existance the Club used the Bears moniker, before re-branding themselves as the Lions.

Fitzroy was and remains to this day a seperate football club

 

[mustang]

Don't forget Blakey! Which thinking about it, was a bit of a joke. His dad was coaching in Sydney so that's the reason he was there, hardly someone that grew up in Sydney and turned a blind eye on rugby. Through his old man, he would've lived and breathed footy.

Same thing could happen with Luke Hodge’s kids and Brisbane when they are ready to be drafted in a few years.

 

[Kwality]

Same thing could happen with Luke Hodge’s kids and Brisbane when they are ready to be drafted in a few years.

Not to mention Lachie Johnson, son of Fitzroy, Brisbane Lions three peat champ & member of the indigenous team of the century picked up by Essendon (is that in Melbourne) under the NGA rules. If thats ok, nothing wrong with Blakey living in Sydney.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Not to mention Lachie Johnson, son of Fitzroy, Brisbane Lions three peat champ & member of the indigenous team of the century picked up by Essendon (is that in Melbourne) under the NGA rules. If thats ok, nothing wrong with Blakey living in Sydney.

Johnson was picked in the open draft.

 

[Kwality]

Johnson was picked in the open draft.

Essendon has selected Next Generation Academy and James Hird Academy member Lachlan Johnson with its final pick of the NAB AFL Draft on Thursday night.

Pick 63: Lachlan Johnson

Essendon has selected NGA member Lachlan Johnson with its final pick of the NAB AFL Draft on Thursday night.

www.essendonfc.com.au

You are technically correct as if the Bombers didnt use their last pick he dropped through to the Lions.

An NGA player.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Essendon has selected Next Generation Academy and James Hird Academy member Lachlan Johnson with its final pick of the NAB AFL Draft on Thursday night.

Pick 63: Lachlan Johnson

Essendon has selected NGA member Lachlan Johnson with its final pick of the NAB AFL Draft on Thursday night.

www.essendonfc.com.au

You are technically correct as if the Bombers didnt use their last pick he dropped through to the Lions.

An NGA player.

He wasn't picked via the NGA system.

He selected Brisbane under the F/S rule, they declined to nominate him for the ND, and Essendon then picked him in the open draft just as any other team could have.

 

[Eastcoasteagle]

Same thing could happen with Luke Hodge’s kids and Brisbane when they are ready to be drafted in a few years.

Haha you'd (Hawks supporter) would be very worried about that.

 

[Pykie]

So, for the second consecutive year a traditional football state (Tasmania) has failed to have someone drafted in the National Draft.

The AFL clearly has no incentive to develop the talent down there.

Should North and Hawthorn be given all of Tasmania under a "Northern Academy" system and develop the states junior talent to an acceptable standard?

I mean this is meant to be the reason stated on BF for the Northern Academy existence, to foster and develop talent in interstate regions.

Tas football is rotting away. Someone needs to step in.....

 

[Davo-27]

So, for the second consecutive year a traditional football state (Tasmania) has failed to have someone drafted in the National Draft.

The AFL clearly has no incentive to develop the talent down there.

Should North and Hawthorn be given all of Tasmania under a "Northern Academy" system and develop the states junior talent to an acceptable standard?

I mean this is meant to be the reason stated on BF for the Northern Academy existence, to foster and develop talent in interstate regions.

Tas football is rotting away. Someone needs to step in.....

Patrick Walker and Isaac Chugg got rookie drafted

Jackson Callow really unlucky not to get drafted and Oliver Davis needs to work on his speed and endurance to get drafted it seems as contested mids are not in vogue right now in the AFL, unless they have some speed or top level endurance.

Tassie does need help, a couple of decades ago Tassie was a more fertile area for good footy players than NSW and QLD, but now they have lagged behind, the AFL needs to let a team take that program under their guidance, because the North V South u18 Tassie games were atrocious to watch, there needs to be a club given responsibility to fix the states youth leagues imo.

 

[PMBangers]

So, for the second consecutive year a traditional football state (Tasmania) has failed to have someone drafted in the National Draft.

The AFL clearly has no incentive to develop the talent down there.

Should North and Hawthorn be given all of Tasmania under a "Northern Academy" system and develop the states junior talent to an acceptable standard?

I mean this is meant to be the reason stated on BF for the Northern Academy existence, to foster and develop talent in interstate regions.

Tas football is rotting away. Someone needs to step in.....

That'd be a decent idea, give Hawthorn North or South Tasmania and Kanga's the other as non-NGA academy zones, I don't think club links would've gotten any of the undrafted kids in personally, but it'd give them more access to professional development

 

[Caputo]

North does have NGA for Tasmania. Thomas is the proof. Adelaide Bid in Top 10.