Paddy Ryder

[OneGreatClub]

At the very start of the youtube relay and just as the ball is being thrown in St Kilda no 6 (Ross) gives Robbie Gray a little push in the chest. Instead of going goalside and telegraphing his intentions Robbie takes a couple of steps outwards and then runs between Ross and 15(Billings) as Paddy taps the ball.

genius

 

[OneGreatClub]

Siren Blown

Don't damage The Hand Paddy

 

[Kwality]

If Paddy goes back to WA either to play or live I reckon he will end up with Gerard Neesham's Clontarf Foundation which does work with the Clontarf Aboriginal College ( his old school) and they have a Clontarf Academy or he will work directly for the Clontarf Aboriginal College

If you look at the map of where the Clontarf Foundation has set up its 92 Academies it in every mainland state and in NT except for SA. I suspect that's because the indigenous programs the club is running is similar to what Neesham's Foundation is doing and doesn't need to be replicated in SA.

http://www.clontarf.org.au/about/

Article from The Aus on Clontarf:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...w/news-story/c32ceb242cd2ce14cab425a1bdcc0945

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Article from The Aus on Clontarf:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...w/news-story/c32ceb242cd2ce14cab425a1bdcc0945

Thanks K.

For those who cant get past the paywall

It started with a simple idea nearly two decades ago: Aboriginal boys, disengaged from school, might be inclined to show up more frequently if there was a football involved, and maybe a regional tournament to work towards. For Gerard Neesham, a champion Australian football player in his day and later the inaugural Fremantle Dockers coach, the seed of that idea was planted in 1999 when he returned to his original calling as a teacher at Perth’s Clontarf Aboriginal College.

The first year it was just a few kids in that single city school but Mr Neesham sensed he was onto something — and he was right. The Clontarf Foundation he created because of huge demand (“you stick one footy in the middle of a paddock, you’ll get 50 boys straight away”) has blossomed into an institution covering 92 schools nationally with almost 6000 boys signed up to its academy system and an average 80 per cent school attendance rate. More than 500 are in Year 12 this year and the foundation’s figures indicate more than 80 per cent will remain in study or work 12 months after graduating.

So an announcement today that Clontarf’s major corporate partner since 2008, Rio Tinto, will tip in a further $1.1 million to the program each year for the next three years, is no small deal — and it’s not just because of the money.
.......
Clontarf has a “third-third-third” funding model, partnering with big corporates and state and territory governments as well as the commonwealth. Malcolm Turnbull this year announced a $40m investment to see it get 10,500 indigenous boys into its academies by 2020, with Mr Neesham estimating that, fully scaled up, it will have 15,000.

Rio general manager Joanne Farrell, who has more than 50 Clontarf graduates on her workforce, including three in Rio’s university cadet stream, said the program accorded perfectly with Rio’s responsibility, since “all our mines are on Aboriginal land”...........

 

[OneGreatClub]

Thanks K.

For those who cant get past the paywall

It started with a simple idea nearly two decades ago: Aboriginal boys, disengaged from school, might be inclined to show up more frequently if there was a football involved, and maybe a regional tournament to work towards. For Gerard Neesham, a champion Australian football player in his day and later the inaugural Fremantle Dockers coach, the seed of that idea was planted in 1999 when he returned to his original calling as a teacher at Perth’s Clontarf Aboriginal College.

The first year it was just a few kids in that single city school but Mr Neesham sensed he was onto something — and he was right. The Clontarf Foundation he created because of huge demand (“you stick one footy in the middle of a paddock, you’ll get 50 boys straight away”) has blossomed into an institution covering 92 schools nationally with almost 6000 boys signed up to its academy system and an average 80 per cent school attendance rate. More than 500 are in Year 12 this year and the foundation’s figures indicate more than 80 per cent will remain in study or work 12 months after graduating.

So an announcement today that Clontarf’s major corporate partner since 2008, Rio Tinto, will tip in a further $1.1 million to the program each year for the next three years, is no small deal — and it’s not just because of the money.
.......
Clontarf has a “third-third-third” funding model, partnering with big corporates and state and territory governments as well as the commonwealth. Malcolm Turnbull this year announced a $40m investment to see it get 10,500 indigenous boys into its academies by 2020, with Mr Neesham estimating that, fully scaled up, it will have 15,000.

Rio general manager Joanne Farrell, who has more than 50 Clontarf graduates on her workforce, including three in Rio’s university cadet stream, said the program accorded perfectly with Rio’s responsibility, since “all our mines are on Aboriginal land”...........

Port can only dream of such a huge investment in our programs. Well done Clontarf and Rio.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Port can only dream of such a huge investment in our programs. Well done Clontarf and Rio.

Well done Gerard Neesham.

Changed footy more than he has been credited for with bringing in the possession and forward press game from Water Polo - where he was a national player along with his brother David who went to represent Oz in Water Polo at 4 Olympics. David changed how goal keepers played in Water Polo and he copied socer goalies and others around the world copied. I think David was the national coach at one point and took either the men's team the Sharks or the women's the Stingers to a World Cup or an Olympics, or maybe he coached both national sides. His son Tim played for the Sharks at national level and coaches in the national league.

Gerard didnt have full time footballers to master his game plan, so he didn't make it work, but others have copied. He has changed the lives of so many Aboriginal boys, where he has had access to them full time. He has said many times that's more important than any of the football and sports stuff he has ever done. If Freo didn't sack him he wouldn't have gone back to teaching and ended up teaching at Clontarf Aboriginal College. And the guy who sacked him at Freo, chairman Ross Kelly , now is his chairman at the Clontarf Foundation. Funny how the world shapes things. This story is about Neesham from the Age the day Freo made the GF is worth a read. Janus I think you will appreciate it.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/father-freo-20130927-2ujpc.html

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I knew Paddy had a big last quarter and talked about it in the autopsy thread, but even I didnt think it rated as well as what the Champion Data blokes did. A game rating points of 29.3 puts it up there with the top 20 ratings for individual games for the year.

https://twitter.com/AFLPlayerRating

 

[xflamedancer]

Thanks K.

For those who cant get past the paywall

It started with a simple idea nearly two decades ago: Aboriginal boys, disengaged from school, might be inclined to show up more frequently if there was a football involved, and maybe a regional tournament to work towards. For Gerard Neesham, a champion Australian football player in his day and later the inaugural Fremantle Dockers coach, the seed of that idea was planted in 1999 when he returned to his original calling as a teacher at Perth’s Clontarf Aboriginal College.

The first year it was just a few kids in that single city school but Mr Neesham sensed he was onto something — and he was right. The Clontarf Foundation he created because of huge demand (“you stick one footy in the middle of a paddock, you’ll get 50 boys straight away”) has blossomed into an institution covering 92 schools nationally with almost 6000 boys signed up to its academy system and an average 80 per cent school attendance rate. More than 500 are in Year 12 this year and the foundation’s figures indicate more than 80 per cent will remain in study or work 12 months after graduating.

So an announcement today that Clontarf’s major corporate partner since 2008, Rio Tinto, will tip in a further $1.1 million to the program each year for the next three years, is no small deal — and it’s not just because of the money.
.......
Clontarf has a “third-third-third” funding model, partnering with big corporates and state and territory governments as well as the commonwealth. Malcolm Turnbull this year announced a $40m investment to see it get 10,500 indigenous boys into its academies by 2020, with Mr Neesham estimating that, fully scaled up, it will have 15,000.

Rio general manager Joanne Farrell, who has more than 50 Clontarf graduates on her workforce, including three in Rio’s university cadet stream, said the program accorded perfectly with Rio’s responsibility, since “all our mines are on Aboriginal land”...........

Is this somewhat along the lines of what we've modelled our Aboriginal Academy and the Power Cup program on?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Is this somewhat along the lines of what we've modelled our Aboriginal Academy and the Power Cup program on?

You would have to ask Paul Vandenberg if he modeled it on Clontarf Foundation or he started his programs independently, but I suspect since we started we have studied what they do and have copied some of their programs given how big they are. As I said above its no fluke that Clontarf programs are run in every state and territory on the mainland except SA.

 

[xflamedancer]

You would have to ask Paul Vandenberg if he modeled it on Clontarf Foundation or he started his programs independently, but I suspect since we started we have studied what they do and have copied some of their programs given how big they are. As I said above its no fluke that Clontarf programs are run in every state and territory on the mainland except SA.

Thanks

 

[Seanybruz]

The umpires need to get their shit together when it comes to ruck infringements come finals time because that was some of the most frustrating bullcrap i've witnessed that basically kept the Dogs in the game because they were gifted about 8 clearances from centre frees.

Last week it was Max Gawn who basically stopped competing to his level because he kept getting pinged for being too good this week it was Paddy being penalised for some of the most ridiculous calls i've ever seen all because Roughead is a hack that can't leave the ground.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

2017 All-Australian ruckman

Outstanding effort after missing a whole year of footy in 2016. Couldn't be anymore stoked for the big man. Now let's get some finals success for him!

 

[LFC2010]

2017 All-Australian ruckman

Outstanding effort after missing a whole year of footy in 2016. Couldn't be anymore stoked for the big man. Now let's get some finals success for him!

Sensational!.

 

[Grave Danger]

YBB Paddy!!

 

[OneGreatClub]

Having missed a whole year of footy and then awarded AA ruck this year. Outstanding, absolutely. good on ya, fella.

 

[mic59]

The umpires need to get their shit together when it comes to ruck infringements come finals time because that was some of the most frustrating bullcrap i've witnessed that basically kept the Dogs in the game because they were gifted about 8 clearances from centre frees.

Last week it was Max Gawn who basically stopped competing to his level because he kept getting pinged for being too good this week it was Paddy being penalised for some of the most ridiculous calls i've ever seen all because Roughead is a hack that can't leave the ground.

On a small ground that can mean defenders out of position and balls delivered to a goalkicking area with one kick from the centre. A huge effect on the game caused by the decisions of the umpire

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

There are many debatable positions on the field in this year's Virgin Australia All Australian team, but the ruck isn't one of them. Port Adelaide's athletic big man Paddy Ryder is a popular choice to lead the midfield division.

Haha that's gona trigger some opposition fans.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Great news. Well done Paddy. Paddy is the reason why I was confident we could finish top 6 maybe even top 4 when we traded away our 2017 first round pick and didnt do any trades despite so much doom and gloom and nashing of teeth here on the Port board when trade week ended. I knew he was going to change the way out mid field performed in 2017 compared to 2016.

I reckon he is going to have a big September and fulfil his potential that Kevin Sheedy raved about during his first 2 years at Essendon and Sheeds last 2 years as their coach. He has only played in 2 losing finals. The big man is going to change all that this September.

 

[ghostdog]

Well done, Paddy! You should have been one of five

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Well done, Paddy! You should have been one of five

He was one of thirty-four. So thanks for that, I guess.

 

[Boxx]

I still cant believe how much we overpaid for Paddy!

 

[RustyCage]

 

[StuMan]

Well deserved, Paddy-pie.

 

[LFC2010]

Can't wait for the melts tomorrow night on why Jacobs was overlooked.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Can't wait for the melts tomorrow night on why Jacobs was overlooked.

They'll be phoning in in droves