Gar nicht wie bei den Schwänen und das weißt du ganz klar
Your academy gives you access to players who live in SANFL zones in football country. I don't know why you're saying impoverished, one parent a born overseas is enough to qualify. The Swans academy gives access to players in Northern New South Wales and Northern Sydney. It was half a decade and five million dollars before Heeney drafted. Both academies were set up in demographics where there was no engagement or access with high level footy or pathways.Gar nicht wie bei den Schwänen und das weißt du ganz klar
Are you saying Heeney and Mills are from impoverished indigenous/migrant families?
Because our 'academy' only allows us to work with these kids. Our prime prospect is a 15 year old from Sudan who has played for 2 years afaik.
I can see the similarity to Isaac Heeney
Yes, those who grew up in a SANFL zone and could have grown up playing football. Adelaide's academy is restricted to players with an overseas background (who could have even grown up playing) or indigenous kids. Sydney's restricted to areas where there was no or very limited high level football pathways or even many decent senior teams.
And apart from Heeney, how many have been drafted from the area since? Not exactly the SANFL zone Adelaide has access to.
Callum Mills, Sam Naismith, Dan Robinson, Jordan Foote
None of those players come from Northern NSW.
You do, with the same draft rules and with limiting factors on the players who can go into it. Your idea that there should be open slather on players from your zone (or one per year) is stupid because it assumes that Sydney's zone produces the quality that South Australia has on a consistent basis. If this idea went ahead and Sydney got Adelaide's SANFL zones and Adelaide got the rich territory of Newcastle, the Hunter, the Tweed and North Sydney, you'd be spewing.
I don't care if they're from northern New South. They're from your academy.
You don't care that you didn't answer the question and missed the point of it? Fair enough.
All teams do have an academy with the same draft rights and with restrictions on the players who can enter them.
It's already happening with existing academies without the one player restriction.
Then address them.
Thats the next generation academy, you dont have a rights to them in the national draft you can only select them if they fall through the national draft into the rookie draft. Richmond had kayle kirby in their academy last season but we selected him in the draft and they weren't allowed to match a bid for him.
