I mostly agree with you BUT we have put "nearly a decade" of work into him. Surely this gives us some claim?
Three's no crowd for sought-after son of a gun - AFL.com.au
I mostly agree with you BUT we have put "nearly a decade" of work into him. Surely this gives us some claim?
Three's no crowd for sought-after son of a gun - AFL.com.au
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.
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
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.
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.
Anyone go to the game this morning?
They start next week unless there was a practice match
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
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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