Holten sounds like an exciting prospect and seems to have continued to be a good player as he's grown up through the age groups!
Being a smallish indigenous player hopefully will offer something that we don't have a lot of at the moment being a small man with pace and silky skills plus sounds like he's got a good goal sense!
I know he's a few years away still but hopefully we get plenty of updates on his progress along wth the other youngsters coming through!
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Chris is a bit different to most indigenous players in terms of flashy moments. Chris is very solid in times of kicking, positioning and beating his man with the ball.
Chris needs to improve his discipline, defence and teamwork.
Shaydon is all flash, can beat his man in every way and could kick 3 goals in 2 minutes.
At the moment Shaydon is a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with his kicking. Give him 10 snaps and he will kick 9 and hit the post with the other kick. His set shots are, at best, poor. Not well balanced walking in and terrible ball drop makes it a 50/50 chance from 25m in front. Needs to work on defence.
Both are good kids and have 2 years in front of them and will improve in all areas.
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Last I checked, Andy Gowers' son, Billy, was a rookie at Carlton...
Bad call by me. ????????????
The Von is good...
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Dunno if people saw this. The Melbourne mafia are back at it
AFL looks to block complex draft loophole - AFL.com.au
It's the sentence about reviewing the discount that should worry us all.
I think it is all pretty simple - if the discount is removed then the AFL should allocate $1.5 - 2.0m to each of the four clubs to each of the four Northern clubs so that all the academies are fully AFL funded.
The whole debate is ridiculous beyond belief and I can the four clubs effectively walking away from the academy system. Perhaps the four clubs need to get on the front foot here, we cannot have this system being continually watered down.
To my mind it comes down to a simple question: Does the AFL want to expand the game in the northern states? If the answer is yes, leave the discount alone. Fiddle with the "banking" of points if they wish, but for the growth of the game, don't alter the discount at this stage.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
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