Recruiting James Hird Academy (Father/Son and Next Generation)

[eDPS]

Spoiler: JHA Boys

Spoiler: JHA Girls

 

[Maddogm]

Kommer did that. Don’t know if anyone else did.

Long did too. https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/J/Jake_Long.html

 

[eDPS]

Koby Bewick captain of VIC Metro and won best on ground honours on the weekend.

 

[boncer34]

What'd he bet?

 

[Howard Moon]

Koby Bewick captain of VIC Metro and won best on ground honours on the weekend.View attachment 1285731View attachment 1285730

whys ricky nixon leering at him

 

[eDPS]

What'd he bet?

I’m not having a good time with typing this last week

 

[Milanista28]

I understand why the AFL changed the NGA rules after the dogs got JUH but I don't think it's fair to the other clubs to miss out of their slice of the pie, so I propose this as an alternative...

You can match a 1st round NGA player bid once every 5 years, and you can match bids from the 2nd round all the time.

Meaning the Dees would need to weigh up a match on Mac Andrew this year knowing they would be unable to match another 1st round NGA bid for 5 years.

Reckon this is a fairer system??

*Doesn't need to be 5 years.

 

[owen87]

I understand why the AFL changed the NGA rules after the dogs got JUH but I don't think it's fair to the other clubs to miss out of their slice of the pie, so I propose this as an alternative...

You can match a 1st round NGA player bid once every 5 years, and you can match bids from the 2nd round all the time.

Meaning the Dees would need to weigh up a match on Mac Andrew this year knowing they would be unable to match another 1st round NGA bid for 5 years.

Reckon this is a fairer system??

*Doesn't need to be 5 years.

Whenever you stop it, someone will get screwed over.

The Dogs have absolutely cleaned up, getting JUH & Darcy in consecutive years with NGA and FS. Arguably Geelong had similar with their FS players a decade or so ago.

 

[Yoda_]

I understand why the AFL changed the NGA rules after the dogs got JUH but I don't think it's fair to the other clubs to miss out of their slice of the pie, so I propose this as an alternative...

You can match a 1st round NGA player bid once every 5 years, and you can match bids from the 2nd round all the time.

Meaning the Dees would need to weigh up a match on Mac Andrew this year knowing they would be unable to match another 1st round NGA bid for 5 years.

Reckon this is a fairer system??

*Doesn't need to be 5 years.

I floated something similar. Each club has the ability to match ONE nGA player in the decade before that ability expires.

Would see us for example contemplate taking Anthony Munkara this year or potentially wait for Ryan Eyre (Josh’s brother) who could be a top 10 pick.

After that selection is taken, only players in the second round onwards can be matched.

Someone somewhere will exploit it though.


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[Milanista28]

I floated something similar. Each club has the ability to match ONE nGA player in the decade before that ability expires.

Would see us for example contemplate taking Anthony Munkara this year or potentially wait for Ryan Eyre (Josh’s brother) who could be a top 10 pick.

After that selection is taken, only players in the second round onwards can be matched.

Someone somewhere will exploit it though.


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Adds another level to list management and the ability to identify talent.

 

[Ants]

I floated something similar. Each club has the ability to match ONE nGA player in the decade before that ability expires.

Would see us for example contemplate taking Anthony Munkara this year or potentially wait for Ryan Eyre (Josh’s brother) who could be a top 10 pick.

After that selection is taken, only players in the second round onwards can be matched.

Someone somewhere will exploit it though.


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My suggestion was that they should have added up the points every club had matched, and whoever was highest that was the cap. And each team could keep matching until their points dropped to the point they can't match someone in the top 40 anymore. So teams like Doggies, North, Collingwood who had had first round picks would likely have little ability to get more NGAs. A team who'd had nobody could keep matching players.

Of course, that would have meant Melbourne picked up Mac Andrews for free this year. We might not have got Hobbs.

 

[andleanback]

A heads up for those who don’t really follow. Mason fletcher playing on the #3 seed Cinnicinati, currently undefeated for the season. If they win this week they’ll go into the the college football playoff, which would be a first for that team. Mason will have a huge role to play, playing against better defenses he’ll likely be punting more often.

 

[Albertross]

 

[BrunoV]

Add a loading for the pre-season optimism, though I would say that the general feel is that training is a lot sharper than it usually is, but the blitz training watchers are going wild over Tex's work in match simulation.

 

[Howard Moon]

Apparently took this mark in the elite company of Draper, Ridley and a flailing Frank

 

[Lore]

 

[eDPS]

 

[Shermy]

Whichever one is rocking the legionnaires hat needs to be signed up right now. I'm not waiting another 12 months for all that awesomeness.

 

[jmoo wan]

so racist

 

[Lore]

Jayden in the white boots/baseball cap and Alwyn Jr in the red boots/legionnaires hat, according to the comments.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Simple - backwards cap and frontwards cap.

 

[Beerfish]

Alwyn is the one that turns around when you yell out HEY ALWYN!

 

[Howard Moon]

Alwyn is the one that turns around when you yell out HEY ALWYN!

So does his dad

 

[Lore]

December newsletter:

https://resources.essendonfc.com.au/aflc-ess/document/2021/12/16/ea0c7b05-915b-49f8-bc33-ceff4be44535/JHA-Newsletter-23.pdf

 

[kleanr]

Wolf Watson, Plum Wanganeen, Cove McPhee....oh boy

 

[TheGrizz]

Interesting that we don't have Alessio training with us at the moment considering he is the same age as the Davey boys and he played a game for Calder Cannons last year as an under-ager.


I recall Hird, Wanganeen, Moore and Misiti did last year when they were the corresponding age.