Date of Birth: 2 January 2004

Height: 206cm

 

Games CDFC 2024: 4

Goals CDFC 2024:  1

 

Farris-White was recruited from basketball as a Category B rookie in the hope of turning him into an AFL quality ruckman but, after two seasons, the experiment failed to bear fruit.

 

AFL needs to have an Academy set up for Rucks between 17 - 23.

They are drafted too raw and are spat out of the system after a few seasons.

An AFL  academy - great idea.  “Lesser clubs” can develop players who can then get picked up by franchise clubs, or “big clubs”. 

Before moving to Perth Farris - White played football at the Chelsea Junior Football Club. Will be going full circle and playing for Chelsea in the MPFNL next year.

16 hours ago, monoccular said:

An AFL  academy - great idea.  “Lesser clubs” can develop players who can then get picked up by franchise clubs, or “big clubs”. 

You could make it work. For example you could have non tradeable draft picks rotating through clubs without reference to ladder position. Whether a club exercised the draft pick would depend on need. All VFL clubs would have an academy ruckman with guaranteed game time as well as the "normal ruckman". You could rotate these players between clubs and they would have say 3 years to be drafted before leaving the academy.

Clubs would jump at it as training young rucks is such a hit and miss affair