Rumour Homesick 2018 Top draftee rumour

[Aussie_boy]

Jackson Hately mum can't stand him being away

Wasn't he supposedly the safest of all the draftees in terms of not returning home?

 

[Milanista28]

That’s not how the AFL works, you have to nominate for the draft (with the risk of being drafted interstate) and the individual in question would have known that. If it was such a problem he should have nominated for the VFL draft, played a year or two in the state league, then nominated for the draft after discussions with a local club.

Why would they do that? They'd lose so much money.

And that's exactly how it works for talented kids, They hire a manager and tell them i want to get paid and live in this state. It's something they take advantage of sure but they have every right too while the AFL allow it.

 

[bungalow_bill]

What ordeal? The ordeal of being drafted? How terrible for him. I don't know how one can cope with that. Very brave of him. He gets extra dessert tonight to make him feel better.

Compare his "ordeal" with kids in the 60's who were shipped off to Vietnam to kill other people. Being paid a heap of money to live on the Gold Coast must be a truly awful experience

 

[bungalow_bill]

Nah, his heart was always set on the Lions. About time we got one back

I heard he is such a hardcore fan that he considers Brisbane "home". Will be a Lion in 2021

 

[Ian Dunross]

If the Saints end up with the King twins it will go a long way towards glossing over this post Lyon period of ineptitude

 

[bungalow_bill]

If the Saints end up with the King twins it will go a long way towards glossing over this post Lyon period of ineptitude

Will somewhat make up for Paddy - although I guess he's still a chance to come good

 

[Ian Dunross]

Will somewhat make up for Paddy - although I guess he's still a chance to come good

Even if he can stop getting concussed I'm not convinced he's a top line forward.

But yes, King twins would help with our spine significantly you'd think

 

[Rendaw]

I hope its Lukosius wanting to come home to play with Rozee

 

[HARKER]

If that's the case then he brought it on his self. No sympathy. Could've stayed with his family and worked at a Dominos like everyone else

Sometimes you just don't know.
You think you'll be OK, you're told you'll be OK, but you're just not.

I agree in principle that once you enter a draft, you know what you may be in for, but there will always be an outlier that for all the preparation, just finds it hard to cope be it in another state, or just in the system.

 

[Ticky009]

There should be some sort of penalty. i.e. If you don't want to stay, you can leave but you go back to the VFL, SANFL, etc. At the end of the year you go back into the draft. Only team that can't take you is the one you left.

Then we'll see the ones that are really homesick.

I like this proposal Cap, perhaps less a penalty and more a chance for the kid/s to get his head together and then return to the draft.

The problem is all teams bar the kids home state are not going to touch him. But it does stop teams getting in the kids ear because they know he’s going back into the draft.

It’s an imperfect solution but what else is there? The only other one seems to be raising the recruiting age so they’re more mature and ready to move.

 

[Silent Alarm]

If the Saints end up with the King twins it will go a long way towards glossing over this post Lyon period of ineptitude

Neither of them have played a game...

 

[Coach_Required]

Players shouldn't be allowed to be drafted until they are at least 20 years old.

 

[basashi]

players who are too homesick to play for a particular club should not be exposed to the pressure of pro sport at ANY club. local footy is the best place to manage their condition. you have take their best interests into account and it is a fallacy that they are best served by going to the home AFL club of their choice.

 

[Former Decathlete]

Mental health is no joke mate, This guy may be really really depressed.

homesickness is not a mental illness
he is 19. and probably a mummies boy

 

[jwikked]

homesickness is not a mental illness
he is 19. and probably a mummies boy

Mental illness isn’t always the same as mental health.

 

[Art Corvelay]

How many heroes in this thread actually live away from home, and had no real say on who employs them at 18?

 

[Topkent]

How many heroes in this thread actually live away from home, and had no real say on who employs them at 18?

What a dumb **** comment. Not a single person is stopping him from retiring from the AFL an working in any construction he wants in his home town.

He wants to play AFL then he works for the AFL, it's not conscription for **** sake.

Go play in the state league if you wanna be at home sucking on mum's **** at the end of the day.

 

[exxcessivve]

Obviously as a Fremantle fan I have benefited a fair bit from the go-home factor, but I think it's really a different, and a more annoying, situation when the player is only in their first, second, or third year, has barely given the club anything, and hastily requests a trade home. Eg. Josh Schache.
At least Lynch saw out his contract and served GC well, and at least Hogan gave Melbourne some hope and competitiveness when it was transitioning from shitness to brilliance.

 

[Topkent]

I'm not talking about people like Hogan either, gave us What 7 years service? That's fine.

It's these piss ant kids who wanna leave after a year or 2 which give the club who drafted them no opportunity to even get value off them as an asset

 

[Art Corvelay]

What a dumb **** comment. Not a single person is stopping him from retiring from the AFL an working in any construction he wants in his home town.

He wants to play AFL then he works for the AFL, it's not conscription for **** sake.

Go play in the state league if you wanna be at home sucking on mum's **** at the end of the day.

Why’s it dumb? Your first 2 years of your AFL career you have zero say on where you end up, and only have some say the further you get into your career. Imagine if you had no say where you worked including state. Just pack up and go for the career you want. Athletes know this, but slagging people off for wanting to come back home is pathetic.

I’ve lived away from home a couple of times, it’s not easy. I’m not surprised some 18 or 19 year olds find it tough. “Oh but you get to play AFL” - big deal. Just because we’re all a bunch of nerds who never made it and care too much about a sport doesn’t mean it’s the pinnacle of life.

 

[Topkent]

Why’s it dumb? Your first 2 years of your AFL career you have zero say on where you end up, and only have some say the further you get into your career. Imagine if you had no say where you worked including state. Just pack up and go for the career you want. Athletes know this, but slagging people off for wanting to come back home is pathetic.

I’ve lived away from home a couple of times, it’s not easy. I’m not surprised some 18 or 19 year olds find it tough. “Oh but you get to play AFL” - big deal.

Yeah I bet the 10s of 1000s of kids who don't get drafted every year must be so sympathetic of the tough plight those kids get being drafted into the AFL system.

 

[Art Corvelay]

Yeah I bet the 10s of 1000s of kids who don't get drafted every year must be so sympathetic of the tough plight those kids get being drafted into the AFL system.

They’re lucky, no doubt - doesn’t mean they should be shit canned for preferring to live near home. You’ve got no idea what people have going on in their lives.

It's these piss ant kids who wanna leave after a year or 2 which give the club who drafted them no opportunity to even get value off them as an asset

Clubs know the risks when they draft interstate kids.

 

[Topkent]

They’re lucky, no doubt - doesn’t mean they should be shit canned for preferring to live near home. You’ve got no idea what people have going on in their lives.




Clubs know the risks when they draft interstate kids.

None of this would be a problem if you could trade players under contract.

If you want the safety of a long secure contract you sign a contract with a non trade clause an sacrifice a little off the top. If you only care about the money you sign for top dollar but your club can trade you.

 

[AFDogs]

It's usually Vic Metro pussies who want to go back to Melbourne to root all the chicks they didn't get a chance to in year 12 and big note themselves around their extended friendship group.

Post of the year right here.

 

[PT Bar None]

I reckon teenagers who have left home for work have been getting homesick for as long as teenagers have been leaving home for work.

Some struggle, some don't. Places know it's a risk and try and deal with it, especially well funded professional footy clubs. This is probably the risk window too. All training, and new people, and steep learning curve. Club should be on top of it. We had a few guys afflicted during my apprenticeship. One bloke, all we heard from him for three years was how he was going to get a job back close to home when we were done. I joined to get away from home. Moved interstate once qualified. Was nearly far enough. We're all different.

One thing i have observed, is that sometimes it's the parents that are the problem. They want little Tarquin nearby. So all their conversations are around "It's only temporary", "When you come back home", etc. Poor kid may not actually be homesick, but parents hypnotise them into it with their bi-daily phone call language.

Anyway, whomever it is, I hope they settle, become happy and contribute to the club who took a chance on them.