News Port Adelaide's Next Generation Academy

[PJ Power]

It's another VFL rort as Fiji wasn't even a Next Gen Academy zone. It might still not be as they were only considering expanding the qualification area to include Pacific Islands in mid-2025.

Pacific Island talent part of possible NGA changes

The League is weighing up expanding Next Gen Academy changes to include Pacific island countries such as Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea

www.afl.com.au

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It's another VFL rort as Fiji wasn't even a Next Gen Academy zone. It might still not be as they were only considering expanding the qualification area to include Pacific Islands in mid-2025.

Pacific Island talent part of possible NGA changes

The League is weighing up expanding Next Gen Academy changes to include Pacific island countries such as Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea

www.afl.com.au

 

[VineValerian]

Does this mean Alipate John Jnr qualifies for the Bomber academy as well?

He'd better be eligible for the Bummers.

Otherwise Hird and Sheedy will need to petition the AFL to make NGA eligibility supercede F/S in terms of importance

 

[manureid]

Zemes pilot just been names in the under 18s SA basket all team. Any danger he picks basketball?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Zemes pilot just been names in the under 18s SA basket all team. Any danger he picks basketball?

Plenty.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Zemes pilot just been names in the under 18s SA basket all team. Any danger he picks basketball?

It's a card he's willing to play if he can't get to Port.

 

[Addy23]

I understand that Pilot has told Port he will pursue a footballing career as long as he can get to Port. He's got basketball as a back-up in case the AFL decides to change the rule and make it impossible for Pilot to get to Port.

 

[Lefti93]

I understand that Pilot has told Port he will pursue a footballing career as long as he can get to Port. He's got basketball as a back-up in case the AFL decides to change the rule and make it impossible for Pilot to get to Port.

And then we could get him as a cat b???

 

[Ford Fairlane]

And then we could get him as a cat b???

After 3 years

 

[Addy23]

And then we could get him as a cat b???

Based on the rules yes but not sure whether that's the thought behind it

 

[malcheski]

I understand that Pilot has told Port he will pursue a footballing career as long as he can get to Port. He's got basketball as a back-up in case the AFL decides to change the rule and make it impossible for Pilot to get to Port.

It's using the AFL's words against them. NGA's were setup as pathways for kids who'd otherwise be lost to other sports due to cultural backgrounds. The fact a potential top 10 pick could walk to another sport if he could not continue at the club where he'd spent his development years through the academy would be a hammer-blow to the entire program.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Exactly- David Rodan could have been born on the Moon (an Essendon recruiting zone because Sheedy invented it) but once he played 100 games for Port his sons should be purely Port F/S. This idea of “dual academy citizenship” is an anathema.

It makes sense in non-footy states, as the kids don't have access to elite pathways to help develop them outside of the Academies.
Its a ****ing rot in Victoria.

 

[Wargreymon90]

I’d say if he has legitimate chance to pursue an NBA career, he’ll pursue it. Would be silly not to. He can always come back as a Cat B rookie if it doesn’t work out.

 

[Alberton Proud]

That dude top right at the back, can we draft him?

The bloke next to him looks the goods as well

 

[QPower]

Seems pretty clear the AFL is struggling to come up with a way to increase the cost without undermining the key principle of certainty.

Certainty allows clubs to promise a talented 15 year old to choose AFL and the club will draft them.

If the new points bidding system undermines certainty, RIP academy system.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

It's using the AFL's words against them. NGA's were setup as pathways for kids who'd otherwise be lost to other sports due to cultural backgrounds. The fact a potential top 10 pick could walk to another sport if he could not continue at the club where he'd spent his development years through the academy would be a hammer-blow to the entire program.

Pilot is the poster boy for the concept. They should just hand him over to us.

 

[El_Scorcho]

It makes sense in non-footy states, as the kids don't have access to elite pathways to help develop them outside of the Academies.
Its a ****ing rot in Victoria.

Absolutely, especially for the sons of a 185 game AFL player. They shouldn't be NGA eligible, it's a mockery of the whole concept. Pilot is a genuine example of an NGA working as intended, but they'll make it incredibly hard for us to get him no doubt.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The only reason for Zemes to threaten not to put himself in the draft and go play basketball, is if the new rules for matching bids on NGA and father-sons makes it impossible for us to get him in 2027 along with Salopek and Rodan. We still don't know exactly what the rules will be.

Otherwise we have unfettered rights to him under the current rules.

He could wait and nominate for the 2028 draft.

That's all assuming his first real choice / love is footy and not basketball.

For younger Aussies like Zemes to have a very serious chance at playing NBA, the pathway basically is that he has to get picked in Oz under age teams - he hasn't done that yet, has made the U/15s or U/16s train on squad, but didn't make the final cut, and/or get an AIS basketball scholarship, be part of the NBL's Next Stars Program, and/or get invited to the NBA Global Academy in Canberra that was set up in 2017.

Most AIS scholarship holders get a chance to be involved in the NBA Global Academy, but the NBA invite the best youngsters from SE Asia to this academy. They set up equivalent academies in India, Mexico and Senegal, all 4 within a few months of each other.

Josh Giddey and Dyson Daniels went thru the under age national teams, AIS, the Next Stars program and NBA Academy route and didn't go to US colleges before they were drafted by NBA teams. Zemes could go for a college scholarship if he misses out on the teams/scholarships Giddey and Daniels achieved. But that usually means 4 years of college basketball before being drafted.

 

[drcollossimo]

He'd better be eligible for the Bummers.

Otherwise Hird and Sheedy will need to petition the AFL to make NGA eligibility supercede F/S in terms of importance

To be fair Sherry invented Fiji, Essendon and human sons so probably fair in the end

 

[Tibbs]

To be fair Sherry invented Fiji, Essendon and human sons so probably fair in the end

 

[#BallMagnet]

Plenty.

Shouldn't impact his availability to feature in this years National Champs as a bottom ager as the BBall Champs are mid April I believe. SA look to again be a very competative squad with some serious talent and depth and I reckon he'll feature and be important up forward alongside Cochrane.

Tough and long pathway to get to the upper reaches of a Basketball career and he probably knows he's assured a AFL opportunity (Port or even Tassie) if he can't quite make a career as an elite basketballer.
It's a win-win situation for him. Very talented.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Ethan Kingsley training with Port.

He is in this year's draft and is also in the Swans academy.

 

[VineValerian]

Ethan Kingsley training with Port.

He is in this year's draft and is also in the Swans academy.

Adam played over 100 games for us, so he’s a Father/son for us.
Trumps an Academy pick!

Mind you as Adam’s been located in Sydney a while, Ethan may prefer to stay with school mates and family over in NSW?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ethan Kingsley training with Port.

He is in this year's draft and is also in the Swans academy.

Swans academy? Obviously Kingers isn't living in Western Sydney.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Ethan Kingsley training with Port.

He is in this year's draft and is also in the Swans academy.

Good luck with the board, ET.

What position does Ethan play?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Kingo has had to send Ethan to Port to keep the moral high ground