Rookie Selection #61 - James Webster

[Burzum]

Height: 184cm
Weight: 78kg
DOB: 12/02/92
Club: North Shore Bombers/NSW/ACT Rams (NSW)

Bio: Dashing midfielder who has been tied to Essendon as a New South Wales scholarship player. From the town of Terrigal on the NSW central coast and has played some senior football with the North Shore Bombers. Put in some impressive performances for the NSW/ACT Rams at the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships.

In his own words

What type of player are you?
A clean-skilled midfielder who makes good decisions and uses the ball well.

Which AFL player do you feel you resemble and why?
Nick Dal Santo, because of his instinctive decision-making and his good skills.

What are your strengths as a footballer?
Awareness, decision-making, clean skills.

What parts of your game would you like to improve?
I would like to improve my fitness.

Which AFL team do you support and how did you come to barrack for them?
Essendon - I began supporting them after I received a scholarship from the club.

Who has been the biggest influence on your career so far, and why?
Merv Keane. He mentored me and directed me on the right path.

 

[Burzum]

Welcome, James!

 

[Kong]

Looks pretty promising, this one.

 

[table tennis]

Looks like Andrew McDonald

 

[Shane Hird]

Has guts saying he resembles Dal Santo.

Nothing wrong with being confident..

 

[Slattery_20]

#8, #14, #16, #31.
Fear the ginger.
That is all.

 

[Burzum]

umm winderlich, lonergan and pears aint red heads

Bewick, Johnson, Barnard

 

[Slattery_20]

umm winderlich, lonergan and pears aint red heads

They're also not premiership players.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

A MIDFIELDER! Stop the presses. Looks good this kid, good pickup.

 

[loopy_cam]

Does this mean we didn't select Meli?

 

[Yoda_]

I think now, some people may begin to realsie the real damages of paying out Knights was.

Could of put this kid onto the NSW list and had an extra kid
(but still paying two sets of salaries - one outside perhaps - I stand corrected on all of this).

Instead we select him and essentially lose out a player.

Any ways, guys, I think we have a real ripper here. a really good kid two from what I have heard.

 

[abers47]

They're also not premiership players.

Not yet!!!! LOL!

 

[abers47]

I think now, some people may begin to realsie the real damages of paying out Knights was.

Could of put this kid onto the NSW list and had an extra kid
(but still paying two sets of salaries - one outside perhaps - I stand corrected on all of this).

Instead we select him and essentially lose out a player.

Any ways, guys, I think we have a real ripper here. a really good kid two from what I have heard.

According to Essendon FC he has been upgraded from a NSW scholarship player to a NSW rookie player.

 

[Brent Prismall#9]

I herd somewhere (might have been the video on Bomber T.V. with Dudoro talking about the draftees) that this kid is now eligible to play in the NAB Cup. Does this mean he can't play play senior footy during the year, and if so why not?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Pretty sure the same rookie rules apply to Webster compared to other rookies, only a LTI or a rookie upgrade after Rnd11.

 

[Slattery_20]

I think now, some people may begin to realsie the real damages of paying out Knights was.

Could of put this kid onto the NSW list and had an extra kid
(but still paying two sets of salaries - one outside perhaps - I stand corrected on all of this).

Instead we select him and essentially lose out a player.

Any ways, guys, I think we have a real ripper here. a really good kid two from what I have heard.

What?
How the **** do you get from A to B. Honestly, I don't even know...
Explain yourself, show your working, I've got no idea what you're on about.

Surely this is, if anything, the real damages of cutting Larry Watson in 1979.

 

[Rack Watts]

I do hope everything is OK, Slaterry you seem a bit mad bro.

 

[The House]

I do hope everything is OK, Slaterry you seem a bit mad bro.

Not exactly in line for big footy's "most diplomatic" or "most understanding" awards!

 

[The House]

Also a queastion for HFF or Ant555 if they read this.....might have been mentioned before, but had Webster not been a scholoarship selection and nominated for the drafts like most others, what sort of range of selections do you think he may have gone at??

 

[Slattery_20]

Not exactly in line for big footy's "most diplomatic" or "most understanding" awards!

If what I quoted is not the blitherings of an idiot I don't know what is.

 

[Kong]

Yeah, yeah, back on topic.

 

[Towno78]

Welcome James

I think now, some people may begin to realsie the real damages of paying out Knights was.

Could of put this kid onto the NSW list and had an extra kid
(but still paying two sets of salaries - one outside perhaps - I stand corrected on all of this).

Instead we select him and essentially lose out a player.

Any ways, guys, I think we have a real ripper here. a really good kid two from what I have heard.

We went in to the rookie draft with 3 empty rookie spaces, so if the 4th rookie we picked is not as an additional NSW rookie outside the list, what do you think he is?

 

[hank31]

What?
How the **** do you get from A to B. Honestly, I don't even know...
Explain yourself, show your working, I've got no idea what you're on about.

Surely this is, if anything, the real damages of cutting Larry Watson in 1979.

This ^^

Sorry HFF but that made no sense at all..

Basically from what i understand of what you said, we cant afford another 30K PA rookie??

Put the pipe down big fella!

 

[threeleggedgoat]

Looks exactly like the lovechild of andrew mcdonald and dustin fletcher. Hope he can play though

 

[Mrs Mercuri]

Sounds impressive this kid.... I too would be interested to know where he would have been drafted if not tied to us under the scholarship program.

I look forward to seeing how he goes for bendigo in 2011.

David Meli is still 'contracted' to us until end of 2012 i believe... will probably play for Bendigo in 2011 more regularly after playing for the Calder Cannons this year. Maybe he will be named as an international rookie end of 2011.