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    Quote Originally Posted by DeadlyAkkuret View Post
    While the NGAs make little sense, I think the point was that due to their existence it makes it a bit easier to justify the northern academies to the ignorant masses and therefore keep some of the heat off them.

    If that’s the case I am more than happy for both to exist.


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    I thought NGAs were finished?

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    Academy uproar rears again

    I don’t have the slightest doubt that the AFL invented the NGAs to distract the Vic attacks on the Northern academies. There had been no identified problem widely discussed in recruitment from the NGA categories before the NGAs were announced out of the blue.

    The AFL knows the NAs are starting to bear fruit both in adding to the AFL draft pool and spreading interest in AFL in the northern states. The latter is vital to AFL revenue. And the AFL certainly don’t want to run the academies (as some Vic critics suggest they should do).

    None of which excuses the very loose NGA eligibility rules when they were first established. The AFL implicitly has recognised this by tightening the drafting rules for clubs with NGA talent.

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    NGAs not quite finished but withering away.

    AFL scraps top-20 NGA picks, new mid-season draft plan

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    Stripping the top 20 picks from the NGA cuts out the big advantage of the scheme. It's those obvious top level players going to designated clubs for doing next to nothing that was the annoying feature. Hopefully this doesn't end up passing through to the academy program, which would completely gut the academies. The AFL would have to take over the programs in that csse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludwig View Post
    Hopefully this doesn't end up passing through to the academy program, which would completely gut the academies. The AFL would have to take over the programs in that csse.
    The timing of the reminder of the hamstringing of the NGA's, immediately after round #1, makes me wonder how safe from similar treatment the Northern Academies are.

    As to what happens north of the Barassi line without the Northern Academies? The drafting wasteland that stretched from McVeigh to Heeney is a pretty clear demonstration.
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    Loose translation from the Latin is - I am tall, so I hit out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck'n'Roll View Post
    The timing of the announcement of the hamstringing of the NGA's, immediately after round #1, makes me wonder how safe from similar treatment the Northern Academies are.

    As to what happens north of the Barassi line without the Northern Academies? The drafting wasteland that stretched from McVeigh to Heeney is a pretty clear demonstration.
    It’s a bit odd, the week when another academy player is grabbing headlines, the NGA is scrapped. It has an eerie feel about it. Like the calm before the AFL pull the rug from us again.


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    Yes 10 goals from Swans Academy players in a single game, it gave the mouth frothers plenty to vent about.
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    Loose translation from the Latin is - I am tall, so I hit out.

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    I also think that academy kids have a strong loyalty to the academy, and a desire to do their part to promote the academy. Hence the comments by Gulden. In reality Heeney, Mills, Gulden, Campbell would have got drafted regardless. They were all in the national programs etc. Where the academy comes in, is to develop the kids like wicks, bell and sheather
    Gulden and Heeney, and possibly Mills would have been playing soccer or Rugby. They would not have been drafted to an AFL club. The Northern academies grow the talent pool. The Victorian NGAs haven't done that. (I don't know Braeden Campbell's background, except he went to Knox. More of a Rugby school.)

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    Heeney would have been an outstanding 5/8th
    Loose translation from the Latin is - I am tall, so I hit out.

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    A couple Academy kids have one good game against a team that was meant to beat us, and the entire state of Victoria falls apart.
    They'll be going into a Covid style lockdown pretty soon just because Errol kicked a few goals. In Queensland.

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    Academy uproar rears again

    Quote Originally Posted by DeadlyAkkuret View Post
    It’s a bit odd, the week when another academy player is grabbing headlines, the NGA is scrapped. It has an eerie feel about it. Like the calm before the AFL pull the rug from us again.


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    I haven’t read this. Can someone please post link to the announcement you are referring to please?

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    The changes to the NGA rules haven't suddenly been announced this week. They were made clear before the last draft.

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