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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on February 09, 2007, 01:28:27 PM
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Tigers sign AFL/NSW scholarship player
9:18:28 AM Fri 9 February, 2007
Tony Greenberg
richmondfc.com.au
Richmond has signed a powerfully-built 16-year-old as part of the AFL’s NSW scholarship scheme.
The Tigers have selected Harrison Lee, a 196cm, 95kg (and size 15 boots) ruckman/key-position player, who is currently boarding at Scots College in Sydney and is in Year 11.
Full article at: http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=314239
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Good luck to Lee and the RFC. Sheesh he's big for a 16 year old :o. These NSW kids are speculative choices so if you ever find one good enough to make it onto an AFL list it'll be a huge bonus.
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I went and watched a couple of games- yes some big boys amongst them.
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If I heard correctly apparently Harrison Lee's parents/rellies now live in Victoria while he's boarding in Sydney. So it's fairly simple for him to come down here at any time. This is all still hit and miss. We were lucky to spot him playing for former Swan Matthew Nicks' club University NSW-Eastern Suburbs.
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News on BigFooty is that we have signed up a bloke called Harrison Lee on the NSW rookie scheme.
Apparently he is a huge boy (196cm) and only 16-17. And is also a ruckman type
Anyone have any more concrete mail on him?
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http://oneeyed-richmond.com/forum//index.php?topic=4410.0
There's also a write up about Harrison Lee in the latest Fighting Tiger Bulletin.
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Here's the only stats on our NSW rookie playing the Sydney U18 Challenge Cup 2007:
http://www.sportingpulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-54079-5341655 (http://www.sportingpulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-54079-5341655)
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Harrison Lee. Anyone seen him play? Big lump of a lad.
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no all i know he is a big lump of a lad lol
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no all i know he is a big lump of a lad lol
Has the competitive juices I know. Haven't seen him play.
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Just an update of Lee. He played two games on the weekend. First on Saturday with the UNSW/Eastern Suburbs ressies side finishing in their bests then backed it up yesterday with a 4 goal B.O.G. game for the U19s.
http://www.sportingpulse.com/nf/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-54079-5341655 (http://www.sportingpulse.com/nf/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-54079-5341655)
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The Age today talks about the NSW/ACT U18 and lists the scholarship holders.
http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/young-talent-time/2008/05/13/1210444439215.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Our scholarship holder Harrison Lee is playing for NSW/Eastern Suburbs ressies AFL Sydney Premier Division. He's played 4 games so far this year with 4 goals and one 3rd best on ground.
http://www.sportingpulse.com/nf/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-54079-5341655 (http://www.sportingpulse.com/nf/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-54079-5341655)
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What I would like to know is why we have only one listed NSW scholarship player and most other clubs have 3 to 5. Surely we are not that far down the finacial ladder to not make this a priority.
This reaks to me of our short sighted use of the rookie draft in the past. We only had one player on our list for years why other clubs were uncovering players like Cox and Davey. We have done extremely well with our Rookie draft considering our determental use of it in the past. How we uncovered players such as Thursty and Foley when they were both our only rookie player for their year is amazing. Imagine if we had had more players on the list - what gems did we miss?
The same could be said for this scholarship scheme. I think our decision to only include one player may come back to haunt us in the future.
Stripes
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What I would like to know is why we have only one listed NSW scholarship player and most other clubs have 3 to 5. Surely we are not that far down the finacial ladder to not make this a priority.
This reaks to me of our short sighted use of the rookie draft in the past. We only had one player on our list for years why other clubs were uncovering players like Cox and Davey. We have done extremely well with our Rookie draft considering our determental use of it in the past. How we uncovered players such as Thursty and Foley when they were both our only rookie player for their year is amazing. Imagine if we had had more players on the list - what gems did we miss?
The same could be said for this scholarship scheme. I think our decision to only include one player may come back to haunt us in the future.
Stripes
chill
Last year the collingwood football club spent 250k on NSW zone recruitment. The total spend for recruitment last year for the tigers was under 250k.
The club has allocated more resources to this zone this year, and also some funds to the irish experiment.
I have heard FJ say that the quality of player from the nsw zone is nothing to be excited about, the only player he really liked was Reed ( Collingwood )
In summary, we didnt have the funds to allocate to a zone like the NSW in the past, now we do and it will be allocated.
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To be honest Id prefer for us not to spend money in NSW but to look for a or two player from Ireland. The Irish lads have shown they can quickly adapt to the game.
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This is why we will always be behind the eight ball and why we need some sustained success on the field. We need to generate more cash to compete.
I hope you are right about the NSW list because if your not then it will just be another bonus for the bigger clubs and another way for them to stay on top.
We need to start thinking more laterally with our recruiting, coaching and fund raising. Surely there is some pocket of Africa or Asia we can exploit and target super players from! :lol
Stripes
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NSW/ACT qualified to play the big boys in the U18 champs so they must have some decent kids.
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i would rather the money be spent on another recruiting officer permanently in WA / SA, than spend money on raw and very undeveloped kids in NSW.
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i would rather the money be spent on another recruiting officer permanently in WA / SA, than spend money on raw and very undeveloped kids in NSW.
How about over investing money in all football states - Vic/Tas/Sa/Wa/NT. Use that the get our top 40 drafting right.
Then look to non football states and countries.
Right now, our drafting of Top 20 players is not good enough our best players over the past 5 years are basically rookies. That ain't good enough.
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We only have one NSW kid because the AFL made it compulsory to offer a scholarship. It no longer is compulsory so one NSW kid it remains at. If it hadn't been compulsory in the first place pretty sure we wouldn't have even one NSW kid. The club wasn't that interested in it at the time for financial reasons. I've never heard about or seen Lee invited down to Melbourne for say a week to join in training.
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Not sure if he's still on Richmond's books as our NSW scholarship player but Harrison Lee won his club's (NSW/ES Bulldogs) most improved award in their Sydney FL premier division reserves team.
Here's his stats for 2008. 3 senior and 16 ressie games.
http://www.sportingpulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-65035-3787057 (http://www.sportingpulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-65035-3787057)
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Not sure if he's still on Richmond's books as our NSW scholarship player but Harrison Lee won his club's (NSW/ES Bulldogs) most improved award in their Sydney FL premier division reserves team.
Here's his stats for 2008. 3 senior and 16 ressie games.
http://www.sportingpulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-65035-3787057 (http://www.sportingpulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Harrison%20Lee&action=PSTATS&pID=187108948&client=1-1047-0-65035-3787057)
geezuz that's a worry if he;s playing SFL ressies, I once played a season at that ordinary level and I was about as far from league standard as finding the next Cox Plate winner from the woolami Picnic meet.. :o
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It's no surprise it's been a flop for us as the club was never interested in the first place (they didn't want to spend the money) and only offered one scholarship because at that time it was compulsory for every AFL club to be involved. The AFL has changed the rule to make it voluntary and leave it up to the clubs with money to invest/waste. Francis Jackson chose Lee only because he was a big kid (196cm) for a 16 year old and he came from a basketball as well as a rugby background. Unlike the Irish experience we never put the time, energy, interest and money into it.
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AFL pulls NSW funds
Mark Robinson
October 31, 2008
The AFL wrote to clubs last week informing them the $10,000 per club subsidy to help recruit 15 and 16-year-olds would no longer be available.
It says clubs should incorporate the cost into recruiting budgets.
Funding will continue for existing scholarship holders, but that will evaporate over the next two years.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24578520-11088,00.html