2nds Official Swans Academy Thread (Player News and Discussion)

[bedford]

I am heavily invested in Beavis.

Nice Beavis

 

[TheGong]

I am heavily invested in Beavis.

He has got the best hair. Really jealous as am mostly bald now. Number 29 in this photo of Swans u15 from last year.

 

[BloodBrother1]

IMO, these are the best players across the 3 games from each age group:

U19's
Max Rider
Jeromos Mills-Vasas
Ned Hawkins
Lachlan Cabor

U18's (2024 draft)
Joel Cochran
Joe Harrison
Tom Ryan
Nicholas Andreacchio
Felix Rugge-Price

U17's (2025 draft)
Lachlan Carmichael
Noah Chamberlain
Max King
Louis Jans
Oliver Baget-Juleff
Kaiden McNamara
Reeve Simmons

Completely irrelevant I know but some incredible names there.

Baget-Juleff our next superstar

Ollie Baget Juleff, Lucien ??? (cant remember surname) and Eli Oldfield all played in my nephews team in Kiama Power. I remember watching them thinking these kids will be drafted for sure. Eli just ran and ran and moved different to the other kids (opposition included). Impressive player. Moved to Melb Grammar under scholarship (pretty sure still tied to Academy though) so havent seen him for a while but i still reckon he will make it along with the other 2 mentioned above. I will be keeping a keen eye on them come their draft night.

 

[SydneyBlood]

IMO, these are the best players across the 3 games from each age group:

U19's
Max Rider
Jeromos Mills-Vasas
Ned Hawkins
Lachlan Cabor

U18's (2024 draft)
Joel Cochran
Joe Harrison
Tom Ryan
Nicholas Andreacchio
Felix Rugge-Price

U17's (2025 draft)
Lachlan Carmichael
Noah Chamberlain
Max King
Louis Jans
Oliver Baget-Juleff
Kaiden McNamara
Reeve Simmons

I only follow the Academy kids casually but Cochran's name is the one that has come up most since the start of the season. Good to see doing well. A certainty to be drafted from what I read? And for those that have watched him, he looks a good size but is he also relatively agile?

 

[Adnico26Parker]

I only follow the Academy kids casually but Cochran's name is the one that has come up most since the start of the season. Good to see doing well. A certainty to be drafted from what I read? And for those that have watched him, he looks a good size but is he also relatively agile?

He's the one all of the journos seem to be focussed on

Got a mention in this Fox write up - "The other northern academy prospect to track is Joel Cochran – an athletic and versatile 195cm utility who’s tied to the Swans."

Link: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/dr...s/news-story/201ed8b934322fecc6c6cb3969f8e1ae

 

[Ticky009]

None of our Academy kids in this years draft are in Top 20 assessments so far.

 

[Kiama Chris]

Ollie Baget Juleff, Lucien ??? (cant remember surname) and Eli Oldfield all played in my nephews team in Kiama Power. I remember watching them thinking these kids will be drafted for sure. Eli just ran and ran and moved different to the other kids (opposition included). Impressive player. Moved to Melb Grammar under scholarship (pretty sure still tied to Academy though) so havent seen him for a while but i still reckon he will make it along with the other 2 mentioned above. I will be keeping a keen eye on them come their draft night.

Crazy that I have lived in Kiama for 15 years and have never seen the Kiama Power play. Great stuff and good luck to them!

 

[bedford]

None of our Academy kids in this years draft are in Top 20 assessments so far.

That's good

 

[liz]

That's good

Especially when we win the flag and are thus limited in the number of first round bids we can match.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

None of our Academy kids in this years draft are in Top 20 assessments so far.

Whilst the Vic teams all accuse us of "hiding players" in the Academy

 

[bedford]

Whilst the Vic teams all accuse us of "hiding players" in the Academy

I think that's more the media who get that narrative going

 

[Adnico26Parker]

The 2024 Marsh AFL National Championships schedule has been released

2024 Marsh AFL National Championships – U18 Boys
Teams: Allies (ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania), South Australia, Victoria Country, Victoria Metro, Western Australia

DATE

HOME TEAM

AWAY TEAM

LOCATION

TIME

Sun, May 26	South Australia	Allies	SA	10:05am
Sun, June 2	Allies	Western Australia	NSW	10:35am
Sun, June 9	Victoria Metro	Allies	VIC	10:35am

Sun, July 7

Allies

Victoria Country

QLD

10:35am

2024 Marsh AFL National Development Championships – U16 Boys
Teams:
Pool A: South Australia, Victoria Country, Victoria Metro, Western Australia
Pool B: Brisbane Lions Academy, Gold Coast Suns Academy, GWS Giants Academy, Northern Territory, Sydney Swans Academy, Tasmania

DATE

HOME TEAM

AWAY TEAM

LOCATION

TIME

Sat, June 29

GWS Giants Academy

Sydney Swans Academy

ACT

12:00pm

Thu, July 11

Tasmania

Sydney Swans Academy

QLD

11:45am

2024 Marsh AFL National Championships schedule announced

The 2024 Marsh AFL National Championships schedule has been released

www.afl.com.au

2024 AFL National Championships dates set

The AFL has today announced the schedules for this year's Under 16 and Under 18 boys and girls National Championships.

central.rookieme.com

 

[anotherletdown]

Whilst the Vic teams all accuse us of "hiding players" in the Academy

Far easier to accuse us of that than admit you didn't do your homework

IIRC Gulden was named BOG for his futures team in front of every recruuter in the country. Hiding in plain site! Pick in the 30's - muppets

 

[dosser]

Far easier to accuse us of that than admit you didn't do your homework

IIRC Gulden was named BOG for his futures team in front of every recruuter in the country. Hiding in plain site! Pick in the 30's - muppets

He was never 'hidden', they all saw him and thought he was too small!

 

[Crust]

IIRC prior to his draft Gulden played the Sydney grand final with a bag over his head.
Then we stuffed up by putting his Guernsey number and name in the Record.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Just saw on the draft board the Academy U18 and U16’s sides played out at BISP today!

AFL NSW streamed both games on FB

U18’s


U16’s

 

[Kiama Chris]

Just saw on the draft board the Academy U18 and U16’s sides played out at BISP today!

AFL NSW streamed both games on FB

U18’s


U16’s

Wow! U16 smashed it!

 

[Neverwas]

Does anybody know where to find the player lists for these games?

Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro using Tapatalk

 

[Swannie0307]

IIRC prior to his draft Gulden played the Sydney grand final with a bag over his head.
Then we stuffed up by putting his Guernsey number and name in the Record.

What’s worse, we even handed him the BOG medal on the big stage after the game

 

[Adnico26Parker]

U18's vs Lions Academy game ON NOW

 

[Membling]

U18's vs Lions Academy game ON NOW

Absolute drubbing that.

Brisbane were very well drilled on the run and carry

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Absolute drubbing that.

Brisbane were very well drilled on the run and carry

How big of a gap in talent was there between the sides?

 

[Membling]

How big of a gap in talent was there between the sides?

Not huge.

Brissie will have a few draftable players, same as us.

Currently more of a talent gap in u16s.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

A few observations after re-watching yesterday's game.

We played pretty well, just turned the ball over too easily, and Brisbane took advantage.

A few players I noticed were missing from the Summer Series - Cochran (U18's), Harrison, Rider. Did think we missed not having them playing.

IMO, Best were Chamberlain (by quite a distance), Hawkins, Carmichael, Mills-Vasas, King

Cabor played both forward and back, but was much better when he was playing up forward

I think Caleb May (#36) was back in the ruck for the first time this year?

 

[Membling]

A few observations after re-watching yesterday's game.

We played pretty well, just turned the ball over too easily, and Brisbane took advantage.

A few players I noticed were missing from the Summer Series - Cochran (U18's), Harrison, Rider. Did think we missed not having them playing.

IMO, Best were Chamberlain (by quite a distance), Hawkins, Carmichael, Mills-Vasas, King

Cabor played both forward and back, but was much better when he was playing up forward

I think Caleb May (#36) was back in the ruck for the first time this year?

Chamberlin, King and Carmichael are the three who I think are best chances of getting picked up next year.

Reckon Harrison and Cochran are monties for this year