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.
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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.
