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[geoffjennings79]

He's presumably a good enough player that he'll be a permanent fixture in the national team once his college career finishes?

All this talk of him being a cat B rookie is a bit funny in that context (agreeing with your point). It's not James O'Donnell being a talented young son-of-a-former-international cricketer who was picked for Victorian underage squads and thought he woudl give a professional cricket career a crack, but between the ages of 16-17 (when he presumably had to make a choice between the two sports) and 21 he didn't come on as a player and topped out as 'merely' a semi-professional premier cricketer. It's not Alex Keath as an extremely talented young cricketer (part of an Australian U19 WC winning squad and signed professional at that age) that flames out of the system and by the time he's in his mid 20's is barely good enough to get a professional cricket contract anywhere in the world.

He'll be part of an AIS funded program (as he was when he was a teenager) that allows him to be full-time professional and have the privilege of representing their nation in one of the globe's most popular Olympic team sports, in which Australia at least has a moderately successful team. Basically every country in the world plays Volleyball and Australia is 35th in the world rankings.

I assume there’s good money if you play in one of the premier US or European teams? Anyone know how it compares to AFL wages?

Of course Croft will come back to footy. The lure of $$$

There's apparently one player in the Italian Superlega on 900k-1million Euros, but very few anywhere near that at club level. Still get well looked after as top players, but more in kind (vehicle supplied, accomm covered, etc), so hard to get the $ an average AFL player gets.
But Mitchell is rated highly, if he steps up from Canadian comp to US or Europe, comes with a decent profile, still reasonable $$$, European lifestyle, and as threenewpadlocks says, probably a walk-up start for the national team in an Olympic sport.
He also has beach volleyball accomplishments, which due to the surface and 2 instead of 6 players oncourt, is effectively a different sport, but higher profile in some countries than hardcourt volleyball, and again an Olympic sport.

I'm not saying he won't come back to footy, just that I'd suggest it's very long odds considering how his volleyball career is tracking.

 

[TiAn_]

Let’s just wait and see if the Croft that actually plays footy can cut it at AFL level

 

[Smiley Boy]

Volleyball sucks

Get a grip Mitchell

 

[Euku]

What are our likely gets over the next 2 years and where are they rated

 

[geoffjennings79]

Volleyball sucks

Get a grip Mitchell

In my younger years, I played hardcourt volleyball for 2 different teams Mon and Fri nights, footy training Tue and Thu nights, games on Saturday. I also later played indoor beach volleyball. I miss that younger (and much fitter) version of me!

 

[VitalDread]

What are our likely gets over the next 2 years and where are they rated

Levi West and Jaxon Cooney could easily be 15-35 ranked players

 

[NthBondiDoggies]

What is the view on the younger Darcy (looks a unit) and Oliver Grant?

 

[hatescaptcha]

What is the view on the younger Darcy (looks a unit) and Oliver Grant?

I second this - any updated on Will and Max Darcy and what drafts they are eligible for?


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[VitalDread]

Congrats to Jaxon Cooney for making the Vic County Under 16s team
Currently 188cm

 

[hatescaptcha]

Congrats to Jaxon Cooney for making the Vic County Under 16s team
Currently 188cm

Is Cooney still being groomed as a mid? Would be in the 190’s come draft.


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[DognBones]

Just imagine if Terry Dekoning played an extra 69 games with us we would have almost solved 2 of greatest needs: a decent ruckman and a centre half back. Unfortunately Terry just wasn't very good.

 

[Spiritof82]

Just imagine if Terry Dekoning played an extra 69 games with us we would have almost solved 2 of greatest needs: a decent ruckman and a centre half back. Unfortunately Terry just wasn't very good.

I saw DeKonning play, the games he played were bad enough, any more would've caused a riot, and even then he wasn't one of the worst players we had at the time.

 

[DiamondDogs8]

Congrats to Jaxon Cooney for making the Vic County Under 16s team
Currently 188cm

Saw him in the home end on Friday night grabbing a few pics with Dogs fans. He’ll be massive come his draft year.