Baffles me why the gps system has a poor afl program.
Maybe AFL is beneath them in a Rugby State - happy to let that be domain of State Schools. This isn't Victoria after all.
A third of the schools play, terrace has a team every 5 years. Apparently soccer is taking over. Rugby definitely on the downward slope
You have to understand the historical context for it to make sense. Long story short, Aussie rules (Victorian rules at the time) was the most popular sport in Queensland in the 1880s and the GPS schools at the time voted on whether to adopt Aussie rules or rugby union as their flagship interschool sport. Rugby union won by 1 vote, mainly due to the fact that 'Victoria' was included in the Aussie rules name at the time and they felt that wasn't in the best interests of the Queensland colony at the time.
I knew Clark played basketball and I just assumed he converted later but it's interesting that he played both Aussie rules and basketball, especially back then in the early 90s.
80s mate. Bear pies at Carrara, Leroy Loggins, Kylie and Jason, Expo 88, the Joh Trial, King Wally, Horan and Little, Border and Boonie, Pat Cash, hairy vajayjays and terrible music.
https://www.afldraftcentral.com.au/2018/08/13/scouting-notes-u17s-vic-country-vs-queensland/
I am currently tracking them to go top 30 next year espcially Budarick , watch him play NEAFL although small size but impressed by his ability .
There’s a comp going at gps level the last couple of years. I went to terrace so I know they’ve been trying to get a team going for many years with little success. BBC have a team that competes against only a few other gps schools, my brother was the coach until he moved schools at the end of last year.
AFL Queensland are trying to get GPS schools more involved (see below Nudgee playing an invitational game a few weeks ago) but ultimately it's going to be extremely difficult to get the best athletes to play Aussie rules and retain them while they attend GPS schools. Ben Keays (Terrace) is really the only notable name I can think of in recent times. Having said that, there have been a few guns over the last few decades to come out of GPS schools like Jason Akermanis (Nudgee) and Jason Dunstall (Churchie). I think we're more fortunate on the Gold Coast to not be so heavily influenced by top level interschool sport. It allows us to create new excellence programs and quickly establish powerhouse development programs like PBC and Helensvale. Southport State High have also started an excellence program in the last few years so expect them to start competing soon. Southport State High already won the AFLQ Schools Cup Gold Coast qualifying tournament this year so they are probably already the third best AFL school on the GC.
Cal Twomey said the same last week. He also pointed out that even if Scott nominates one of the others, the Suns can still bid on him early and possibly get no matching bid. Scott can also rank his preferences, so even if he chose Geelong they mightn’t match a rival bid so the Suns could match it instead.
It appears there is a loophole in live draft trading as someone mentioned on Roar. E.g. if we bid for North Thomas before their first round pick, they could trade this first round pick for let's say next year pick (having arrangement ready with some other team) and actually use their next pick (2nd round) to match Suns bid. I hope AFL will not allow this.
