Drafting players based outside of Victoria

[tigers#7]

To me, these days, its sort of dangerous to recruit players out of the draft that are based outside Victoria. Is it worth it, if after they want to go back home? Or should it be Victorian clubs priority to get hold of the Victorians? Personally, I think that is what makes our national game so great, and players should be happy wherever they are, because the oppurtunity to play at the highest level dosent come around every day. Interested to hear your thoughts.

 

[pahoffm]

Unfortunately AFL footy lives in a different world, T#7.

But I see where you're coming from.

This year, the best juniors will come from WA, Tas & Qld. Should we just take the Tassie ones & leave the WA & Qld boys for the other clubs?

 

[tha8ball]

Nice post Tiger#7.....i still have a bad feeling on Danny Meyer and Cleve Hughes and their ties with SA...dunno why i just get that feeling. Here is hoping they are RFC players for life as both are gunna be fantastic AFL footballers.

 

[JPM]

Having success at a club defuses this argument somewhat.

Like Brisbane at the start of the decade, and now Sydney & West Coast, success keeps players at a club.

Chris Judd and his fellow Vics in the West are more than happy to stay, as are all the interstaters in Sydney, as they were at the Lions.

The draw to an SA club may die off in the next couple of years, as the Crows and Power slide, and the Tigers rise.

 

[tiger_25]

Was interested to read in the herald sun today that Moody fromt he Lions was offered a 2 year deal. His manager knocked it back as they have openly stated he only wants to sign for 1 year in hope of heading back to fremantle the following year.

Personally would not want a player playign for the tigers who is set on going somewhere else the following year.

 

[Anduril]

Nice post Tiger#7.....i still have a bad feeling on Danny Meyer and Cleve Hughes and their ties with SA...dunno why i just get that feeling. Here is hoping they are RFC players for life as both are gunna be fantastic AFL footballers.

At Club 80 last month Danny said he was looking to buy an apartment in Melbourne to live in.

 

[tigersnake]

As I've said before the real champs don't mind moving, they have character, they aren't attached to mummys apron strings.  Judd, Riewoldt, Brown, sure the club looks after them,  on the other hand, 'go home' players, in my opinion, tend to be a bit overrated, undisciplined and sooky.  Stenglein, that Adelaide player from Melbourne whose name I've forgotten, Headland.

The clubs do tend to get a good trades for these overrated sooky types though, so as JB said on another thread, either way they are worth drafting.

 

[Jimmy_12]

Stenglein, that Adelaide player from Melbourne whose name I've forgotten, Headland.

Scott Thompson?

 

[tigers#7]

Same circumstances with Bryce Gibbs as well. If you were a Carlton, Bombers or Kangas supporter, I'd be worried we'd only have him for a couple of years. And for him to stay in Melbourne after two years, if hes any good, he'll be asking for a significant pay rise. Its all politics these days, and its unfair.

 

[Ian4]

Was interested to read in the herald sun today that Moody fromt he Lions was offered a 2 year deal. His manager knocked it back as they have openly stated he only wants to sign for 1 year in hope of heading back to fremantle the following year.

Personally would not want a player playign for the tigers who is set on going somewhere else the following year.

it's like something out of the NRL isn't it? matt orford did exactly the same thing in his 2nd last year at the storm...

i'm not sure this argument holds much water... well not a tigerland anyway. how many players have left us to go home in the past 15 years? i can't think of too many. peter wilson? mark merenda? we sacked horny torny...

 

[Dyer'ere]

Stenglein, that Adelaide player from Melbourne whose name I've forgotten, Headland.

Scott Thompson?

In each case, the original club got service from the player before agreeing to the trade. Scott Thompson missed a lot of footy before the Dees let him go. His injury management has come good but he was a risk to Adelaide.

Stenglein was playing at nowhere the level he is ATM and Headland was always a reputation.

The club that they leave usually gets well compensated and holds a good hand in the matter of their transfer.

Compare that situation to a club that only drafted players from its own state. That club would be in the mire.