Prediction Future of Josh has gone to the Dogs.

Where's Schack at in 2018?

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Himmelberg high on trade list. Want him this year. We have the picks just need to get it done. Perfect partner to Hipwood up forward or if we continue with GWS moving him to defence would be great with Andrews. Would help immensely with getting is brother here after the Crows development geniuses churn out another elite KPP.
 

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How were we under doing it? Can't produce the talent if it's not there or doesn't want to come. You southerners must think, "oh there's kids lining up to play in the northern academies or something".

How many Melbourne/Victorian kids have made their way on to the Melbourne Storm NRL list?

GWS are an anomaly in regards to the academies, in that they were given some regions where AFL is the number one and first choice sport. It speaks volume about the lack of foresight the AFL had in giving GWS these regions, and it also speaks volumes about how underdeveloped these regions were, when GWS started producing more talent out of these areas than the AFL had seen before.

As is often repeated by QLD'ers, you Victorians have no idea what the sporting landscape is like up here.
Yep - no idea mostly.The kids that show ability ARE lining up to get into the Academies but numbers have been limited and still will be even though (UIGM )the Lions are to double the numbers this year.

Still,the talent has to be there and so do the sheer numbers playing the game and the standard of play - Both of my grandsons who live in Brisbane just didn't have the development path that kids who live in the States where footy reigns supreme have had.

They started in the Under Eights with the local QAFL club Juniors - no primary school footy available (but there was Rugby League and Soccer) and at High School on Wednesdays it was half a game on half a field with not much over half a team while two other schools played on the other half of the oval.

The older boy gave school footy away after Grade 10 and the youngerr fella would not play footy for the school given his brother's experience and would rather go ice skating - he tells me he has been persuaded to play for the school this year as well as the Under Sixteens for his club - he is now particularly keen on Basketball,a sport that he only started through a mate he met at High School and plays that for the school and a Club.

So it is a credit to the Queensland Academies (and the NSW ones for that matter) to have produced the players that have been drafted by various AFL Clubs so far and pleasing to hear about intentions of the Lions to ramp up the numbers and the training at their Academy.
 

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Is it just me or are we just used to reading all this speculation about out of contract players moving to other clubs. I read the article and basically went 'what's new' and went about my business. With Fagan and Noble at the helm and with an emerging list, we have a very bright future. Talking to people at the game on Saturday (I made my Metricon debut), the talk was all about developing and recruiting our academy kids. Would very much love Schache to stay and I believe he will, but we're in a pretty good position especially with Hipwood a future gun, Close looking solid and Ballenden in the wings.
 

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Not going to lose any sleep over him .
If he stays , he stays , if he chooses to go , not a darn thing we can do about it .
agree, all we can do is offer the best environment we can possibly deliver and invest in development and welfare. we have done that so the rest is up to Josh, his manager and the club to work through.

 

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Himmelberg high on trade list. Want him this year. We have the picks just need to get it done. Perfect partner to Hipwood up forward or if we continue with GWS moving him to defence would be great with Andrews. Would help immensely with getting is brother here after the Crows development geniuses churn out another elite KPP.
This. I was looking through the list and had the same thought. We could reunite Harrison and Elliott.
 

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agree, all we can do is offer the best environment we can possibly deliver and invest in development and welfare. we have done that so the rest is up to Josh, his manager and the club to work through.

Giving you a like just for the Doris Day reference, the saucy little minx.
 

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I'm tired of this shit. Every year the same things. We are panicked because a players whose done **** all is holding our club over a barrel. **** them and **** the AFL for allowing new draftees to still have 2 year initial contracts.
Yeah had enough of this crap. Club should just say we aren't too sure either and until you're sure Josh you be playing NEAFL. Let's us known when you know and we'll talk seniors after that.
 
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Yeah had enough of this crap. Club should just say we aren't too sure either and until you're sure Josh you be playing NEAFL. Let's us known when you know and we'll talk seniors after that.
Yeah that's a sure way to get him to stay. :/
 

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Yeah that's a sure way to get him to stay. :/
Better then being the last girl waiting for someone to ask her to dance at the prom. We come across so desperate in these situations it's embarrassing. Stand up be counted and let the world know we'll be just fine with or without him. And in the mean time develop ourselves for life without him. It's a reasonable conversation, we have limited resources Josh, we can't spread them everywhere. We need return on investment and until we have an understanding those limited resources will be deployed elsewhere.
 

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Sorry to take us back to 3 pages ago but this article just came out on SEN.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/03/30/how-brisbane-can-win-from-schache-trade/

TLDR: If he wants to leave, he wants to leave. If we get both of Richmond's 1st round picks for him it wouldn't be a bad result, we would then have 4x1st round picks along with Ballendon as an Academy pick (hopefully), Close and Freeman coming along "steady" and Hipwood who is now a star in the making.
The words in that article "unless Schache changes his mind and stays in Brisbane". If the article is correct he's made a decision already.
 
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Better then being the last girl waiting for someone to ask her to dance at the prom.
That's an odd binary premise you've set up there.

You seem to be wanting us to use leverage when we don't have any, just for the sake of puffing our chests out.

The only way we retain talent is by being a place where they believe they can be happy and have a good career. We aren't going to get that by punishing him for not signing a new contract when he is only just over half way through his current one.
 
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The words in that article "unless Schache changes his mind and stays in Brisbane". If the article is correct he's made a decision already.
No decisions have been made. Wait for the CBA then shit will become clearer.

Why don't we have a how many colemans will Eric the Eel win thread
 
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