murraycray wrote:
What if a kid is no good at school ? Doesn't get within a bull's roar of year 12. Leaves school at 15 or 16.
But he is a gun footballer.
A gun footballer who can't do what he's best at for 4 or 5 years because he's locked out.
They do this now though.
What if he had a chance of getting a sports scholarship and played in the feeder league then got drafted a proven mature gun. Tim Kelly like.
As we know, some of these guns at under 18 don't always become guns in the AFL.
You just have to look back at previous drafts and see how many top 10 picks haven't quite lived up to their potential.
That's huge risk for clubs that use valuable, picks, money and effort to go into a non AFL proven player.
No matter what way it goes there will always be players that fall through the cracks too.