No Dylan has never played as a topup, it would have been noteworthy news at the time equivalent to the fanfare that Brandon Jack got when he played as a topup.
Pretty impressed with Swans Academy numbers in the U16s Rams squad. Should have done this 15 years ago
Looks likely we will nominate one this year
The Academy is looking to be doing a great job that will eventually flow through to the Swans. I think this years draft will be our first chance to select players, as it will be for GWS, Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Please support any fundraising initiative for the Academy.
Technically we were able to last year too, and indeed, the club nominated a handful of players by the May deadline, but chose to nominate none to put on the list come trade week. (Lynch, as an ex-scholarship player, wasn't subject to the bidding process.)
Speaking of which, has anyone read anything about who they've put on the consideration list for this year? I thought the deadline was late May but maybe it is a little later than that. You'd have thunk that Jack, at very least, would be put on that list, and probably a few others too. (Again, as I understand the rules, Wray and Robinson are exemption from this pre-nomination process.)
Imagine if it does start to flow through to the Swans.
The scenario playing in my head goes like this
1) Then Swans nominate half a dozen kids . . . .
2) Other clubs big for several of them but
3) We still get all of them, and
4) Choice #96 turns out to be the next Chris Jud or whomever.
I can almost hear the screams of indignation (led of course by Everywhere Eddie) from the Victorian clubs.
Loose translation from the Latin is - I am tall, so I hit out.
Well, cousen Billy Bob came running out to the milken shed to give me the good news.
He said "Billy Ray, they have announced the Under 16's Ram Squad".
Hot diggity it's like Christmas in Australia, there's a Carroll and a Roos, there's a Bottin-Noonin and a boy from the Central Coast who goes to school near Wyoming - Josh Barty.
I just love a place that reminds me of home.
AFL NSW/ACT: NSW/ACT U16 RAMS squad announcement
Last edited by BillyRayCypress; 7th June 2012 at 06:45 PM.
Nothing like a good light bulb moment.
Nothing like a good light bulb moment.
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