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Drafted, now the big move - realfooty.com.au
Troy Chaplin and Jed Adcock
Two boys from the same Victorian country town face new lives at different interstate clubs. As Emma Quayle reports, it's the way of the AFL national draft.
Of the 52 teenagers drafted on Saturday, 38 must pack their bags, farewell families and board planes for strange cities before taking their next step in dream-completion. Eleven Victorians were selected by out-of-state clubs, including six members of the Country Victoria team that won this year's national championships.
Among them was Troy Chaplin, whose life first intersected with that of Adcock at primary school and in the Maryborough under-13s. Now, it will continue at the opposite end of the country, in a Port Adelaide guernsey.
After breathing his sigh of relief before the end of the first round, Chaplin was in a back room at the draft waiting to be interviewed on television when his mother rushed in with his mate's fate.
He felt less frazzled than his friend yesterday and, having travelled with various basketball teams and to Ireland with the AIS-AFL Academy last April, is confident he knows enough about life away from home to survive in the "big, Bendigo-type town" that is Adelaide.
"It takes a while to hit you. At the draft I was looking at all the kids in Fremantle and Melbourne clothes and I thought to myself, 'I'll be wearing a Port Adelaide top - hang on, that's Adelaide, that means I have to leave home'," Chaplin said. "The real time I think it will sink in is when we're at the airport, leaving."
Kathy Chaplin's instinct when she heard her boy's name called by the Power was to think, "you little ripper", and to enjoy Troy's widening smile. She thinks it's a good sign he will be fine, and that she will be fine without him. "He'll have his times and he'll be on the phone.
"I don't think it will be every night of the week or I'll be saying to him, 'stop ringing us up, concentrate on what you're doing and get stuck into the footy'," she said.
"A couple of calls a week and I'll be pretty happy. But I think he's just going to love it."
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Seems like every year the Vic media writes another article showing what an absolute tragedy it is for any Victorians to have to move interstate, while at the same time hyping up how stoked SA, WA and NT players are to go to Melbourne. This is this year's version.
Two boys from the same Victorian country town face new lives at different interstate clubs. As Emma Quayle reports, it's the way of the AFL national draft.
Of the 52 teenagers drafted on Saturday, 38 must pack their bags, farewell families and board planes for strange cities before taking their next step in dream-completion. Eleven Victorians were selected by out-of-state clubs, including six members of the Country Victoria team that won this year's national championships.
Among them was Troy Chaplin, whose life first intersected with that of Adcock at primary school and in the Maryborough under-13s. Now, it will continue at the opposite end of the country, in a Port Adelaide guernsey.
After breathing his sigh of relief before the end of the first round, Chaplin was in a back room at the draft waiting to be interviewed on television when his mother rushed in with his mate's fate.
He felt less frazzled than his friend yesterday and, having travelled with various basketball teams and to Ireland with the AIS-AFL Academy last April, is confident he knows enough about life away from home to survive in the "big, Bendigo-type town" that is Adelaide.
"It takes a while to hit you. At the draft I was looking at all the kids in Fremantle and Melbourne clothes and I thought to myself, 'I'll be wearing a Port Adelaide top - hang on, that's Adelaide, that means I have to leave home'," Chaplin said. "The real time I think it will sink in is when we're at the airport, leaving."
Kathy Chaplin's instinct when she heard her boy's name called by the Power was to think, "you little ripper", and to enjoy Troy's widening smile. She thinks it's a good sign he will be fine, and that she will be fine without him. "He'll have his times and he'll be on the phone.
"I don't think it will be every night of the week or I'll be saying to him, 'stop ringing us up, concentrate on what you're doing and get stuck into the footy'," she said.
"A couple of calls a week and I'll be pretty happy. But I think he's just going to love it."
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Seems like every year the Vic media writes another article showing what an absolute tragedy it is for any Victorians to have to move interstate, while at the same time hyping up how stoked SA, WA and NT players are to go to Melbourne. This is this year's version.
