What ... no Irishmen for Melbourne?

[alpha33 309]

hat we have Jimmy as President, one would have thought that we'd be in on this - Young Irish players, and parents, to get taste of what AFL offers

"We've identified a No. 1 draft pick — he's very quick, six foot three (191 centimetres), a Tadhg Kennelly type but a bit bigger."

[Rogue 585]

A little off-topic, but this is quite cool:

"The software tags whatever you want — kicks, marks, handballs, shots on goal, etc. It will enable us to call up, say, Bill Murphy from Dublin, and if you click on 'kicks', footage of all of his kicks will come up one after the other. You don't need the whole game.

[AdrianOB 0]

What do these clubs get for their $30k. I suspect that is what has stopped us participating. But really what guarantees do the clubs have for spending this money that another club may not just draft the irish player they are looking at.

If we have the no 1 pick and an Irish kid identified through this thing is good enough to be number one what stops us from selecting him. Or is Ricky Nixon trying to tamper with the draft ???