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Good photo of Brandon Walker courtesy of WAFC website
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How will they help West coast ?
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Pretty sure its because WC will have a bigger catchment zone
Mainly because their NGA isn't anywhere near as strong as ours. We have some potential top 30 prospects coming through. I have yet to see any in WC's NGA that look like that kind of quality. And their catchments probably favours them as well. As a Freo supporter I'm on the fence about it but if I were a WC fan (little bit of vomit just came up) then I'd be all for the change.
Good photo of Brandon Walker courtesy of WAFC website
Big hands = Good start
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Post this year we are talking and he's probably not top 30 either.
That NGA curtain raiser before the last derby the Freo NGA team held them scoreless until the last few minutes of the game. Final score 146-8 or something. We have some guns coming through.
Chris = same dimensions, different hairstyle.
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Excuse me peoples, what are the proposed nga changes your talking about?
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Indigenous leaders were lamenting the missed chance for their young people to engage in the NGA programs of West Coast and Freo simply because they didn't live in the regions. The Western clubs proposed that all of the state be included in the NGA system so the metro and near metro indigenous players can stay engaged in the game, but that obviously this would represent a significant increase in local talent for each club (Rankine would be a Crows NGA player) so they suggested that NGA players aren't guaranteed for their club before pick 30.
It's funny how before the NFL draft there is a lot of discussion about things like hand size and wingspan but you never really hear thing like this discussed before an AFL draft
That lad looks like he has big hands and long arms though
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It was fyfes attribute pre draft. Wasn't he called avater
You certainly wouldn't want to dilute the investment into more remote regions though by including metro based kids. Perhaps the existing situation could remain with metro indigenous kids added under the "past pick 30" condition?
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Why develop players if the very best taken gets lost? I'd reverse it and say we can match bid any player bid on in the top 30, open access after that. Means if we develop top tier talent we keep them, but players arent lost to afl because its open house
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I think keeping those young men in footy, engaging their entire community with positive examples of teamwork and looking after themselves is worth it by itself.
From a list management point of view, if other clubs can access their entire state and extract that advantage then we should be able to as well. We'd only draw them back anyway if they were drafted away.
From a list management point of view, if other clubs can access their entire state and extract that advantage then we should be able to as well. We'd only draw them back anyway if they were drafted away.
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Metro based kids play WAFL colts. The development is done by the WAFC. All the Colts coaches are nominated and work for the WAFC - I don't know why you'd want to have another layer of development programs on top of that.
Regional kids on the other hand, don't have access to the development pathways and that's where the NGA's come in.
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It's great for Afl, it's works well for the kids that get picked and their close family. But it is a worry that for a lot of idiginous kids in these community's it's Afl or welfare. A lot of the engagement programmes through schools teach very little. It's about quantity , not quality education.
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Any body know much about Dylan Curley? Any reason he is not NGA? He is from the midwest.....
http://www.wafl.com.au/players/view/7043
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/the...dylan-curley-takes-screamer-ng-b88905734z.amp
https://www.afldraftcentral.com.au/tag/dylan-curley/
http://www.wafl.com.au/players/view/7043
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/the...dylan-curley-takes-screamer-ng-b88905734z.amp
https://www.afldraftcentral.com.au/tag/dylan-curley/
Some great WA talent on that last link.
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Yeah stumbled across that looking up dylan. Pretty good run down of the guys on the draft radar. Interesting that O'Reilly is showing good flexibility and I Hill is performing well.
What was the result of the NGA game?, any heads up on promising talent!
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