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Feel worried?

Not about the kid, he looks like a gun...

BUT worried that he will want to go home to Perth? I really feel like now-a-days it is a huge risk taking a talented kid from another state. I really hope as he is becoming a star he wants to go back to Perth....

This would not be good and make me feel more confident just picking up a local boy...

Thoughts?
 
baconb said:
Feel worried?

Not about the kid, he looks like a gun...

BUT worried that he will want to go home to Perth? I really feel like now-a-days it is a huge risk taking a talented kid from another state. I really hope as he is becoming a star he wants to go back to Perth....

This would not be good and make me feel more confident just picking up a local boy...

Thoughts?
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I think the recruiters would have a fair idea of the kid and his willingness to move interstate. I think the blues recruiters would have gone through all the motions before they picked him up. Just remember there were similar concerns about Bryce Gibbs when we picked him up and he seems to be a happy Victorian now.
 

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Not at all. By the time he signs his next contract, he will have been at the club for 2 years, hopefully played finals in both years, and he'll be a part of something very very exciting at the Carlton Footy Club.

He's also got a couple of WA kids on the list that will help him fit in, such as Bower and Ellard.

Everyone was worried about Gibbs, yet he signed a 2 year extension.
 
Bomba Sheldon said:
First impression I got looking at him on TV was disappointment, maybe I should put it down as relief that its all over (hopefully)???
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i saw that to on channel 10.
does anybody have a link to that clip?
also gandaal said that his family are all moving to melbourne for support, can anyone back that up?

if his family is coming over he wont go home.
 
Yep, if his family are moving over it'd make me that more comfortable about it.

However, does anyone actually think it strange for a 17 year old to sad about having to leave mates (and possibly family) and travel across the country. I'd imagine most kids in a similar situation would be disappointed. Most get over it and even those who don't (ROK), don't always find it easy to move back home.
 
blues4flag said:
Yep, if his family are moving over it'd make me that more comfortable about it.

However, does anyone actually think it strange for a 17 year old to sad about having to leave mates (and possibly family) and travel across the country. I'd imagine most kids in a similar situation would be disappointed. Most get over it and even those who don't (ROK), don't always find it easy to move back home.
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Do you guys understand his background, or have read the Emma Quayle article? Chris has had sadness all his life, since around 8, anyway. He deals with it and puts his energies into football (you have Naitanui to thank for that). From seeing and having read about those 3 families, if any one of them was recruited interstate I believe that the whole families were going to move, so I would expect Chris' family to move with him.

You have a gem here, I mean a real gem. I regard him that highly that I would not have been disappointed with the Eagles taking him at 2, and I love Naitanui.
 
I know I said i was concerned about the whole "Go home factor" for this kid in another thread, however I read that his mum and sister are moving over to Melbourne with him. Sounds like the CFC guys were incredibly pleased with the way he handled himself at the interview.

Very good read on TC with Cazzesman, gives good insight into how highly the club rates our kids we've picked up.

Loved the bit about Robbo wanting to 'swim across bass straight to join them at training in the morning.' He's going to fast become a favourite I think.

Go blues. 2009 can't come fast enough:thumbsu:
 
One of the constants with the Carlton Football Club, in the time I have followed them, is that we very rarely lose required players. Our success with interstate players has been such that many of them still call Victoria home, even after their football careers have finished. I really can't see the 'go home factor' being an issue with Yarran. The club will embrace him & his family & make him so pleased that he was drafted to the greatest club of them all.
 
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You have a gem here, I mean a real gem. I regard him that highly that I would not have been disappointed with the Eagles taking him at 2, and I love Naitanui.
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Don't have to tell me. Though admittedly I've seen nothing of him bar his championship games and the highlights, I'm rapt that we took him at 6. Very exciting prospect and one which I can't wait to see play come 2009. :thumbsu:
 

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chrsco said:
Do you guys understand his background, or have read the Emma Quayle article? Chris has had sadness all his life, since around 8, anyway. He deals with it and puts his energies into football (you have Naitanui to thank for that). From seeing and having read about those 3 families, if any one of them was recruited interstate I believe that the whole families were going to move, so I would expect Chris' family to move with him.

You have a gem here, I mean a real gem. I regard him that highly that I would not have been disappointed with the Eagles taking him at 2, and I love Naitanui.
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Thanks chrsco. :thumbsu:
 

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