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    Quote Originally Posted by penga View Post
    Personally, I believe that the Academy should be used to enhance the game in NSW and QLD. Where there are dual/multi-sport athletes, that are not quite sure which path to take, the Academy should be there to encourage that player to our game. Not there to poach sons of 359 game players that would be playing the game with or without the Academy.
    I mostly agree with you BUT we have put "nearly a decade" of work into him. Surely this gives us some claim?
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    Quote Originally Posted by penga View Post
    Personally, I believe that the Academy should be used to enhance the game in NSW and QLD. Where there are dual/multi-sport athletes, that are not quite sure which path to take, the Academy should be there to encourage that player to our game. Not there to poach sons of 359 game players that would be playing the game with or without the Academy.
    But if the academy wasn't there he may in fact be playing soccer or rugby/rugbyleague.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baskin View Post
    But if the academy wasn't there he may in fact be playing soccer or rugby/rugbyleague.
    Or simply if the academy did not exist, the elite training programs would not exist to get a player to the level required to be drafted.

    The father is unlikely to make a huge difference if the player is not able to play against and train with other elite talent within elite training programs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by penga View Post
    Personally, I believe that the Academy should be used to enhance the game in NSW and QLD. Where there are dual/multi-sport athletes, that are not quite sure which path to take, the Academy should be there to encourage that player to our game. Not there to poach sons of 359 game players that would be playing the game with or without the Academy.
    How on earth have we poached him? What a ridiculous statement and idiotic post

    Yes he had a great headstart with having an afl legend as a father but there is no way without the Swans academy in place he would be the young player he is.

    Plus Nick is fully entitled to choose either the Lions or Kangas as a father-son over us if he so desires.

    How can it be any fairer than that?

    Should the academy system be denied to anyone that qualifies under FS? Whilst Blakey is clearly not the general rule there�s absolutely no reason for us not to claim his as an academy kid

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    Quote Originally Posted by Papernick View Post
    How on earth have we poached him? What a ridiculous statement and idiotic post
    Hmmm. Mods?

    IMO, he would be playing Aussie Rules without the Academy.
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    The academies work primarily because of the effort the clubs put in and the fact that the kids identify with the club rather than with AFL as a game.
    hilly Tasmania
    In a perfect world the AFL would be doing this role but handed it to the clubs because they are the best ones to undertake it.

    Whatever choice Nick Blakey makes later this year, it will be HIS choice so let's wait and see. We are not "poaching" him. He may still end up in sunny Brisbane or wintery Tasmania.

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    In this day and age father and son is probably a more tenuous basis to give a player to a club.
    The academies invest a huge amount of time into the kids and deserve as much recognition as father and son.

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    Anyone go to the game this morning?

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    They start next week unless there was a practice match

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    Quote Originally Posted by penga View Post
    Hmmm. Mods?

    IMO, he would be playing Aussie Rules without the Academy.
    So what? Who knows maybe he�d be playing rugby if we didn�t have an elite pathway for afl in Sydney. By that logic we should only be able to draft players who clearly come across from other sports and who we can prove to your satisfaction wouldn�t be playing afl without the academy. Not to mention that even if they would have played afl anyway that for most kids they wouldn�t have reached afl standard without the academy. It�s a ridiculous and idiotic logic

    We invest the time and money in the kids we should be able to draft him. And as it has been pointed out nick can choose to go to north or the lions if he wants to

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark121 View Post
    They start next week unless there was a practice match
    Yes there was a practice match against the Giants. Only info is from the Giants AFL press conference. Hopper played and Griffen played 3/4 quarters

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    Quote Originally Posted by ugg View Post
    Yes there was a practice match against the Giants. Only info is from the Giants AFL press conference. Hopper played and Griffen played 3/4 quarters
    i'm getting quite sick and tired of Swans Media for their lack of any information on the reserves. Mind you they have given sweet @@@@ all in the pre-season about anything. The information coming out of the club is almost non-existent and the supporters have a right to feel aggrieved. I'm sure we would all love to know how the players performed. How players like Ling, Dawson and co are recovering from injury and whether either of them played. I know Dawson is a few weeks away but Ling?

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