Competitions Foxtel The Recruit

[Dobie G]

The Recruit is a program for budding AFL players starting in 2014 along the lines of Cricket Superstar. It is open to all footballers aged 20 years or more who have not been on an AFL list or played senior VFL, SANFL or WAFL in the past 2 years.
The last program will have an official AFL draft to work out the winner.

Voss has been made the coach of The Recruit.

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[Powerstufff]

The Recruit is a program for budding AFL players starting in 2014 along the lines of Cricket Superstar. ...

Thanks for the link Dobie G. I note from information there that The Recruit will broadcast on FOX 8 in 2014. I guess Triple M is involved too although how is not clear. Good idea.

 

[Dobie G]

Eddie everywhere is involved 'McGuire Media" and I think (?) he does some work for Triple M.

More info on The Recruit

The Recruit is a television program that seeks to find Australian Rules Football players currently competing at a non-professional level who could have what it takes to play professionally. The show, its producers and talent scouts are looking for players who have the skills and ability to play professional AFL.

http://www.fox8.tv/shows/the-recruit
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[Ralph Lorenz]

Recently ran out of things to watch on Fox and remembered this was coming in 2014.
Reading some other threads on the show I came across below which is some pretty good info after scouring the interweb to no avail for the past 2 days. Kudos for the post peterbuch74

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/foxtels-recruit.1038567/page-2

The son of a mate went through the intense selection process for this show last Sunday. 120 applicants were chosen to try out, of which 30 will be selected for the show. It is my understanding that at the end of the show 15 players will be selected and entered into the draft(s) (national/rookie) where minimum 3 will be selected on a guaranteed 2 year contract with the club. If good enough all 15 can be selected by any/all clubs.

It is my understanding that the talent on show was excellent, with players from a wide variety of leagues present who all believe they're good enough to be on an AFL list, but for whatever reason (issues, not being seen, overlooked, size etc) have never made it into the AFL landscape.

The 30 will be notified over the coming month, with filming to commence in mid March.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/foxtels-recruit.1038567/page-2

I'd be interested in watching this. Throughout the week of football season, there's rarely much to watch to fill the void left by the weekends high and low light entertainment - often not satisfied by the likes of 360, on the couch or classified unless one of our reps are on there talking about us.

As mentioned, seems like the show is being filmed as we speak so hopefully we start seeing episodes airing around April/May/June.

 

[Kickpuncher]

They had a few shows going like this a few years ago. Football (soccer) Superstar, and Cricket Superstar.

The Cricket one was a good watch, so hopefully this is the same.