AFL players still in school

[Ahern2Boof]

Apologies if this topic has come up before, but how often do you see a player make an AFL list while still studying at school nowadays?

This comes after North Melbourne selected young Murray Bushrangers midfielder Kayne Turner in the rookie draft today. Turner won't turn 18 until NYE, and still has his Year 12 studies ahead of him in 2014. Surely it must be a delicate position for the club to be in, trying to manage a kid's training load with his school duties. I hope being a schoolkid while on an AFL list doesn't hamper his position in any way of finding his feet at a professional level.

Have any players from your list studied at school while affiliated with an AFL club? I can remember Patrick Dangerfield from a few years ago, but that's all really..

 

[bards]

Xavier Ellis was drafted in 2005 and spent all of 2006 at Melbourne Grammar including playing football for them, although he managed a few games for box hill when school commitments allowed. Basically sacrificed a year of football. It doesn't happen very often as the draft age has been lifted so not many kids have a year to go.

 

[Underarm]

Jack Watts.

arent rookies on a 1 year contract to begin with? I guess North think he will be worth more in a years time and therefore got in early. In a way you have to treat it a bit like the mini draft picks, and just ease them into the program.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Pretty sure Dangerfield went to school during his first year at the crows.

 

[Engimal]

So he'll be 19 next year in year 12? Is that a normal age to be in year 12 in other states?

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[Scatter]

Wasn't Dustin Fletcher still in school his first year? In about 1957...

 

[Chunderboy]

So he'll be 19 next year in year 12? Is that a normal age to be in year 12 in other states?

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In QLD we turn 17 in year 12

 

[MaddAdam]

Wasn't Dustin Fletcher still in school his first year? In about 1957...

Yes, and sadly I know, because it was in the same year I did Year 12 and he actually played a game at my school.

 

[Kummerspeck]

Hannebery stayed in Melbourne for his first year with Sydney. Came and trained on school holidays.

 

[legend166]

Did this guy have to repeat a year? Or did his parents just make him start school a year late?

Turning 19 in your final year of school (even if it is the last day of the year) is a bit weird.

The AFL changed the draft rules in 2009 so you wouldn't get guys who are still in school being drafted.

 

[NetworkNerd]

Did this guy have to repeat a year? Or did his parents just make him start school a year late?

Turning 19 in your final year of school (even if it is the last day of the year) is a bit weird.

The AFL changed the draft rules in 2009 so you wouldn't get guys who are still in school being drafted.

He was either going to be a young year 12 (turn 18 after the year finished) or an oldish year 12 (turn 18 before the year started)
Prob better with the latter. An AFL footballer with a car license in Yr12. He will pull the ladies in

 

[LeverPuller]

All of Jack Watts, Sam Blease and James Strauss. Blease broke his leg at school kicking the footy after getting drafted.

 

[AlibiMonday]

Hannebery stayed in Melbourne for his first year with Sydney. Came and trained on school holidays.

He was actually playing seniors while still doing Year 12.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-16/hannebery-to-debut-for-swans/1356152

 

[MaddAdam]

All of Jack Watts, Sam Blease and James Strauss. Blease broke his leg at school kicking the footy after getting drafted.

Wasn't it playing downball?

 

[LeverPuller]

Wasn't it playing downball?

Thought it was marks up or something.

 

[MotleyLemon]

All of Jack Watts, Sam Blease and James Strauss. Blease broke his leg at school kicking the footy after getting drafted.

A ringing endorsement of not taking players who are still in school, if ever I saw one...

 

[Symons]

Liam Shiels was still at school when he made his debut for Hawthorn.

 

[Kimbo]

So he'll be 19 next year in year 12? Is that a normal age to be in year 12 in other states?

Did this guy have to repeat a year? Or did his parents just make him start school a year late?

Turning 19 in your final year of school (even if it is the last day of the year) is a bit weird.

The AFL changed the draft rules in 2009 so you wouldn't get guys who are still in school being drafted.

He turns 18 on New Year's Eve this year.

 

[Igloo]

Liam Jones was still in school when we drafted him, from memory.

 

[Max Power 83]

All of Jack Watts, Sam Blease and James Strauss. Blease broke his leg at school kicking the footy after getting drafted.

Pretty sure they changed the minimum draft age after that year, hence it will be rare in the future.

 

[daniel_4tw]

Dangerfield stayed in Victoria to finish Year 12 the first year he was drafted. IIRC he played two games in his first year when we played in Melbourne.

Incredible support from the club to let a draftee stay interstate for a year, something which has obviously paid off.

 

[scarecrow2k1]

Daniel Jackson was at Carey in his first year at Richmond. I think we even put him out of our senior side one week so he could play in a big game for Carey? And I think the same happened with Dustin Fletcher in his debut year but both those last bits may be wrong.

 

[master bate]

Dangerfield stayed in Victoria to finish Year 12 the first year he was drafted. IIRC he played two games in his first year when we played in Melbourne.

Incredible support from the club to let a draftee stay interstate for a year, something which has obviously paid off.

Settle down it's not like they reinvented the wheel. A whole bunch of clubs have done it and it's paid off very well for Hannebery and Dangerfield of late who are now 2 of the better mids in the league.

I think the raising of the draft age was a decent idea but then again you wonder if it's easier for these guys to do year 12 and know where there future lies and combine semi-AFL style training. Or combine pretty much semi AFL level training whilst trying to impress recruiters and doing year 12 with no guarantees.

 

[Underarm]

Settle down it's not like they reinvented the wheel. A whole bunch of clubs have done it and it's paid off very well for Hannebery and Dangerfield of late who are now 2 of the better mids in the league.

I think the raising of the draft age was a decent idea but then again you wonder if it's easier for these guys to do year 12 and know where there future lies and combine semi-AFL style training. Or combine pretty much semi AFL level training whilst trying to impress recruiters and doing year 12 with no guarantees.

year 12 is pretty easy when all you have to do is pass.

 

[getgaff]

Hanneberry would have been one of the last to do it.

Can't imagine how infuriated Melbourne would have been about Blease getting injured playing at school. And a majoR injury like a leg break to. An ankle sprain or something is OK but a leg break is LTI.

Think there were rules put in place after Hanneberry was drafted saying that a player needs to be the age of finishing school (in there state) before being drafted. Smartest option if you ask me