Any Father sons to look out for?

[Slipper]

Forget getting any other NT talent unless they're the sons of Maurice Rioli or Joel Bowden...if they're any good, the clubs that were given NGA zones up there will jump on them.....as usual we get gyped by the AFL as the only Vic club with neither a Vic Metro nor an NT zone....

I Have mentioned this before. Why is that the case Dio?

Maybe the AFL expects us to poach like we did in the 70's.

[Tiger Khosh]

I remember reading or hearing a story that the club was of the opinion that we should have had first rights to drafting quaynor and not collingwood.

[georgies31]

I remember reading or hearing a story that the club was of the opinion that we should have had first rights to drafting quaynor and not collingwood.

What's the go there with that story ?.You know the pies get anything there way from the afl.

[Dont Argue]

I remember reading or hearing a story that the club was of the opinion that we should have had first rights to drafting quaynor and not collingwood.

It was only an opinion piece from a poster. Quanor did some work around the club as part of some leadership program but we had no dibs on him whatsoever.

[Diocletian]

Forget getting any other NT talent unless they're the sons of Maurice Rioli or Joel Bowden...if they're any good, the clubs that were given NGA zones up there will jump on them.....as usual we get gyped by the AFL as the only Vic club with neither a Vic Metro nor an NT zone....

I Have mentioned this before. Why is that the case Dio?

Because the AFL is run by biased & incompetent arseclowns.....

[taztiger4]

Forget getting any other NT talent unless they're the sons of Maurice Rioli or Joel Bowden...if they're any good, the clubs that were given NGA zones up there will jump on them.....as usual we get gyped by the AFL as the only Vic club with neither a Vic Metro nor an NT zone....

I Have mentioned this before. Why is that the case Dio?

Because the AFL is run by biased & incompetent arseclowns.....

pretty sure you will find RFC requested & pushed hard for the region we ended up with

[Diocletian]

Yeah that still doesn't really explain why we didn't also get a second zone in a Metro area or the NT like every other club did...

[taztiger4]

Yeah that still doesn't really explain why we didn't also get a second zone in a Metro area or the NT like every other club did...

probably because of the time & cost involved in having separate regions ?

[Diocletian]

As you can see....




....every club bar GWS - who don't count for obvious reasons- got a regional & metro zone except us  ...Hawthorn even got a Vic country , Metro and NT zone....

[Diocletian]

Yeah that still doesn't really explain why we didn't also get a second zone in a Metro area or the NT like every other club did...

probably because of the time & cost involved in having separate regions ?

When you consider struggling minnows like North, St.Kilda and the Dogs all received seperate regions it seems highly unlikeky that was the case....

[Diocletian]

The main thing that bugs me about this is that when the two main criteria for NGA eligibilty are indigenous   and ethnic backgrounds, we're the only club without a zone in either the western states which are the hotbeds of indigenous talent and we're the only club without a zone in a metro area where the vast majority of ethnic kids live....seems like it kind of puts us behind the eight-ball to start with...

[georgies31]

The main thing that bugs me about this is that when the two main criteria for NGA eligibilty are indigenous   and ethnic backgrounds, we're the only club without a zone in either the western states which are the hotbeds of indigenous talent and we're the only club without a zone in a metro area where the vast majority of ethnic kids live....seems like it kind of puts us behind the eight-ball to start with...

Puzzling decsion to when you add to that the indigenous centre set up we have the best in the afl by a mile to.

[taztiger4]

The main thing that bugs me about this is that when the two main criteria for NGA eligibilty are indigenous   and ethnic backgrounds, we're the only club without a zone in either the western states which are the hotbeds of indigenous talent and we're the only club without a zone in a metro area where the vast majority of ethnic kids live....seems like it kind of puts us behind the eight-ball to start with...

there are large sudanese enclaves in Shep etc & large indigenous populations in our NW vic zone, not perfect but not as bad as you are suggesting I dont beleive

[yandb]

There are big differences in the skill pool of various indigenous communities.

The Northern Territory seems to have developed far more indigenous Afl players than Victoria.

To that point I can't remember any gun indigenous player coming from northern Victoria.

Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have produced an amazing number of talented indigenous players.

Wirrapunda is the only gun I can remember and he came from Gippsland.

[the claw]

The main thing that bugs me about this is that when the two main criteria for NGA eligibilty are indigenous   and ethnic backgrounds, we're the only club without a zone in either the western states which are the hotbeds of indigenous talent and we're the only club without a zone in a metro area where the vast majority of ethnic kids live....seems like it kind of puts us behind the eight-ball to start with...

there are large sudanese enclaves in Shep etc & large indigenous populations in our NW vic zone, not perfect but not as bad as you are suggesting I dont beleive

we dont get everything right taz. we got this one wrong