On Grand Final Day, next year’s prospects will get their opportunity to strut their stuff.

Last year Matt Rowell showed the credentials that are making him one of the favourites for the # 1 draft mantle this year.

 

No Stingrays on that list.  Not hearing good stories about the development of their players.

The game is on now and all eyes would be on Jamarra Ugle-Hagan who will be all the rage in next year’s draft. The kid is being hailed as the next Buddy. Sadly, he’s in the Bulldog’s Next Generation Academy so they will have the first dibs.

Any future Demon NGA prospects in here?

16 minutes ago, FireInTheBelly said:

Any future Demon NGA prospects in here?

None on the list on this link but we do have one prospect Deakyn Smith who is on next year’s Next Generation Academy who isn’t playing today. 

2 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

None on the list on this link but we do have one prospect Deakyn Smith who is on next year’s Next Generation Academy who isn’t playing today. 

Ah yes, that was the player I was looking for but couldn't remember his name. Thanks for that.

Do you know if any research has ever been done looking into what players we may have had available to us from our zones in the 5 or so years prior to their introduction?

Just now, FireInTheBelly said:

Ah yes, that was the player I was looking for but couldn't remember his name. Thanks for that.

Do you know if any research has ever been done looking into what players we may have had available to us from our zones in the 5 or so years prior to their introduction?

Not that I’m aware of but I do know that all AFL clubs spend a lot of time with their own local development areas.

A comprehensive win to the Jonathon Brown team over the Nick dal Santo side.

The game highlights the talent of the northern states academies which are all a fair bit stronger than the NGA. There are some good kids coming up from the academies in the near future, especially for GWS.

15 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

There are some good kids coming up from the academies in the near future, especially for GWS.

Thank heavens for that!

Team Brown reigns supreme in Under 17s Future game

 

 

 

On 9/1/2019 at 11:40 AM, george_on_the_outer said:

No Stingrays on that list.  Not hearing good stories about the development of their players.

Aren't the Stringrays part of our zone now too? That'd be right. 

Some good picks for academy Lions, Swans, and Giants 

Competition more unbalanced than ever

3 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Some good picks for academy Lions, Swans, and Giants 

Competition more unbalanced than ever

Agree. We need to abolish academies all together.

Swans chose to move up to Sydney, AFL & GWS chose to have a team based their too, all the picks in the world don't seem to be helping GC & the Lions weren't complaining back in the early 2000's when they were dominating.

 

We need to sink some time, effort and money into our own NGA.  If the club did it right we'd have a steady stream of talent coming in. 

Did we have any Academy players in this game?

No