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I was having a peek at the AFL NSW/ACT website and found the junior player zones for our academy and the GWS academy.
Who was the idiot that zone virtually 80% of NSW to GWS.
AFL NSW/ACT: Sydney Swans/GWS Zones
If I were Richard Colless, I'd be absolutely filthy about that.
It virtually means if anybody comes out of country NSW they'd go to the Giants.
To me that is an absolute disgrace and unfair on us.
KR the Western half of the state is very sparse on population. I know I come from there. So if you cut the State in half down the middle you would find 95% of the population in the Eastern half. A little more troubling is the metropolitan zoning as it would seem that the majority of land and population would be designated the GWS. The North of the State is also far more populated than the South so in all the Country zones will probably work population wise. For instance Newcastle and the Central Coast are high density population areas.The one problem I have is that the South tends to be more AFL friendly than the North even though that is slowly changing.
Last edited by wolftone57; 20th January 2012 at 02:37 PM.
I wasn't very happy when I found out the Riverina and Wagga areas were given to GWS.Originally Posted by wolftone57
Those areas are NSW's football heartland and any potential champion from that area will now play for the Giants.
Thank goodness the Giants weren't admitted years ago as we wouldn't have had club legend Paul Kelly in our colours.
Like I said, I would've thought Richard Colless and our academy coaches would've kicked up a stink about that.
I think it's very unfair on us.
I think we've been treated like second class citizens by the AFL with the introduction of the Giants.
I think it sucks too - most NSW kids with real potential come from either the Riverina or somewhere in Sydney (with a few notable exceptions such as Craig Bird). As such we have been dudded out of a good source of talent being the whole southern part of the state, plus also the ACT, which at least in the short-to-medium term is a real problem.
I wonder what, if any, power the club has to lobby for this to be changed sometime in the future. I think it would also be interesting to hear people's opinions on whether this really is an issue anyway, given the national nature of the game and the broad range of places we have sourced our squad from.
i cant read the two sydney insets >?
can anyone?
it appears north shore and northern beaches and maybe eastern suburbs ??
and south sydney to cronulla ??
"some people may disappoint you.......just give them time or a kick in the arse"
Even with these zones I don't think we've had any trouble filling our Academy with kids across all age ranges.
I think that the zoning may have been initially biased towards GWS in order to get them competitive as a club from a starting start.
Once they are going nicely in 5-8 years time, the zone borders should probably be revisited.
Remember, GWS will cost the AFL $10-15 million per year for a generation so they will be given advantages over us ..... that's life :-(
Basically exactly what I was going to say, so I shall add this instead; excellent comment, 707!
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
Exactly - life is very different in every way now to what it was when the Swans came up here - so it may not be to everyone's liking, but if the game is to expand, there has to be alot of coin thrown in from control headquarters and concessions made. Those who keep yelling from the roof tops that its grossly unfair etc etc are starting to sound like Eddie McGuire who never stops complaining about hard done by Collingwood are -think about that!
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure..................
Chickens drink - but they don't pee!
AGE IS ONLY IMPORTANT FOR TWO THINGS - WINE & CHEESE!
As I posted in another thread the Swans have known about GWS for about 5 years - and for about 3 of those years they did absolutely nothing about it to the point it was like "if we ignore it it will go away" it was head in the sand type of stuff - well the AFL were true to their word that they were going to come into sydney's west. The Chairmans luncheon I went to in 2007 it was mentioned virtually just in passing with the "it wont happen" tone about it - how wrong can yer be!
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure..................
Chickens drink - but they don't pee!
AGE IS ONLY IMPORTANT FOR TWO THINGS - WINE & CHEESE!
Yes the South & West to them the East and North to us.
+1
Couldn't agree more with this and 707's post.
The amount of lies men tell would decrease significantly if woman stopped asking questions.
It appears from GWS' list that they are far more interested in giving out big contracts to players from rival clubs than they are developing their zone. Hopefully Harry Cunningham will be proof of that.
I would think that we would have far more NSW players on our list currently than GWS who had the whole of NSW to pick from the past 2 seasons.
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