Expansion List of Northern Territorians in the AFL

[Matchu]

Adelaide (1)
1. Curtly Hampton - NT Thunder

Brisbane (1)
2. Zac Bailey - Southern Districts

Carlton (0)

Collingwood (0)

Essendon (2)
3. Jake Long - St Marys
4. Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti - Tiwi

Fremantle (1)
5. Ryan Nyhuis - NT Thunder

Geelong (2)
6. Nakia Cockatoo - NT Thunder
7. Brandan Parfitt - NT Thunder

Gold Coast (1)
8. Steven May - Southern Districts

Greater Western Sydney (0)

Hawthorn (1)
9. Cyril Rioli - St Marys

Melbourne (0)

North Melbourne (1)
10. Jed Anderson - NT Thunder

Port Adelaide (3)
11. Dom Barry - Alice Springs
12. Steven Motlop - Wanderers
13. Jake Neade - Elliott

Richmond (1)
14. Daniel Rioli - St Marys

St Kilda (1)
15. Ben Long - NT Thunder

Sydney (0)

West Coast (2)
16. Tony Olango - NT Thunder
17. Willie Rioli - St Marys

Western Bulldogs (0)


Not enough AFL players to field a team but some serious talent listed above. An NT team would lack key position players seeing as Steven May and Tony Olango are the only AFL listed NT players above 190cms. Although, given their talent, they could probably get away with playing a forward line full of six small forwards.

 

[Matchu]

You could make a very handy AFLX team from that list above.

 

[radiojake]

Do we make Nathan Buckley coach?

 

[OniAu]

Do we make Nathan Buckley coach?

If you want excuses for 5 years about how his list isn't his , then yeah sure sounds like a perfect fit

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It’s about 1 player for every 15k in population. If memory serves me from the numbers we looked at for Tassie the other week, that compares fairly favourably.

 

[Matchu]

It’s about 1 player for every 15k in population. If memory serves me from the numbers we looked at for Tassie the other week, that compares fairly favourably.

NT - 17 AFL players (1 player for every 14.4k)
TAS - 27 AFL players (1 player for every 18.9k)
QLD - 48 AFL players (1 player for every 95.8k)
NSW - 61 AFL players (1 player for every 119.9k)

Junior participation numbers would also be interesting to look at in this discussion. I would have thought junior participation numbers in NSW and QLD would be much lower than Tasmania or Northern Territory (percentage wise). Which would most likely mean a lot of the best athletes from QLD and NSW aren't playing Australian rules football, whereas a lot of the best athletes from NT and TAS most likely are playing footy.