Some exciting of age talent in the group but a bit disappointing some equally good talent have missed spots for bottom age kids some of whom have not really proved themselves at colts level to date but hopefully do so this year.
Please don’t take this the wrong way.
It’s usually about 50/50 give or take in the academies but usually morndraft age players make the champs squad. If you’re not in the state academy you have to be pretty impressive early in the year to make the champs squad. I believe all states colts, sanfl, nab league etc all have a testing day before the season starts. I guess it’s so the recruiters can track and record the players measurables before the year starts so when they are scouting they aren’t making presumptions on a particular players athletic ability. Otherwise they would have to wait until October to find out how well a player tests and that’s very late in the process.
Every Colts player can attend. Certainly not by invitation
Are you sure? I heard this morning that one of the wafl clubs have invited 40 odd kids to go. Some of them are very young (from their Futures squad- 2004 born) and not every player in their current Colts squad got an invite.
I can only talk to last year. But it was very much, it's on at this time, come along, no charge.
maybe it has changed as the academy kids from that wafl club are also on the list and it’s def invite only from that zone.
www.wafootball.com.au
Do they do biometrics at combine? Or just athletic testing?
HArd to tell. That many kids in one room! Unless you knew who to look for, it was hard to see. There were two scouts there- one from Sydney and one from Gold Coast. There were a lot of little brothers there (Sharp, Warner, Cripps are the I knew) One of the Walker twins (Brandon I think) looked very athetically gifted. It was done club by club and from what I could see, only the clubs were interested and recorded the results of their own players. Such a vast range of ages. 2001 down to 2004. It’s not really a measure of how they can play footy. Futures starts this weekend.
Hagan is futures age group (2004) but recovering from surgery so not playing futures. Like other Futures kids, might get a chance to train and potentially play some colts games after the futures series have wrapped up. There are no 2004 kids training with Colts at this stage.
