Victorians Playing for the Melbourne Storm - Are there ANY?

TLPG · Post by **TLPG** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:26 pm

I'll start with the 2010 Draft alone - one pick up in the draft itself. Trent Stubbs from the East Coast Eagles in Baulkam Hills to Collingwood.

And in the Rookie Draft - there were SIX! Including one from the Black Diamond AFL, even though the kid was from Woy Woy which of course is the Central Coast and not Newcastle. There was also a kid from Wollongong as well as the other four from Sydney AFL clubs!

Want me to keep looking back through the drafts, Raider? Or do you want to give it up now?

Raiderdave · Post by **Raiderdave** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:42 pm

TLPG wrote:
I'll start with the 2010 Draft alone - one pick up in the draft itself. Trent Stubbs from the East Coast Eagles in Baulkam Hills to Collingwood.

And in the Rookie Draft - there were SIX! Including one from the Black Diamond AFL, even though the kid was from Woy Woy which of course is the Central Coast and not Newcastle. There was also a kid from Wollongong as well as the other four from Sydney AFL clubs!

Want me to keep looking back through the drafts, Raider? Or do you want to give it up now?

no keep going
you'll need to ...........

as per the question I asked... by my count

Sydneysiders ... who are playing at the elite AFL level .... 1
& near the elite level ... 1

you haven't said anything about where the other 4 are from .. in this Rookie draft , 1 from the gong & 1 from the Hunter & you haven't provided one link to asscertain their origin

( onion breaths claim of there being " plenty from Newcastle .. being as per usual .. ludicrously wrong .. unless you claim 1 as .. " heaps "

)

& anyway
apples V apples .. & even allowing for the fact League has been in Melbourne some 17 years less then AFL has been in Sydney

theres 15 Melbournians playing RL at just below the elite level ... most of whom will get their start in the NRL in the coming years
some massive home grown talent coming through the Storms 1st rate development program.

miles ahead of the pathetic development results for AFL in Sydney .. despite I'd say the AFL spending 50 times the money the Storm has
game ova

as for

TLPG · Post by **TLPG** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:48 pm

Two more for you, both playing for Sydney.

Craig Bird - recruited from Nelson Bay in guess where? The Black Diamond AFL!!
Paul Bevan - recruited from Western Suburbs AFL club (and his grand uncle Brian Bevan is an RL Legend apparently).

You want links?
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/players ... fault.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bevan

And I'll keep looking. At just below elite level, there are 16 on various rookie lists dating back to the 2007 rookie draft. East Coast Eagles have the best record.

Raiderdave · Post by **Raiderdave** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:25 pm

TLPG wrote:
Two more for you, both playing for Sydney.

Craig Bird - recruited from Nelson Bay in guess where? The Black Diamond AFL!!
Paul Bevan - recruited from Western Suburbs AFL club (and his grand uncle Brian Bevan is an RL Legend apparently).

You want links?
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/players ... fault.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bevan

And I'll keep looking. At just below elite level, there are 16 on various rookie lists dating back to the 2007 rookie draft. East Coast Eagles have the best record.

thats 2 for sydney in the AFL.. gee that aint many is it ?

2 for the hunter region

& less then 10 all up in either the AFL or lower tiers .... still waiting for links to 6 of these too

by 2028
the Storm will have blooded 10 born n raised melbournians alone in the NRL

TLPG · Post by **TLPG** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:58 pm

Hammer, whilst I take your point about crystal balling - there are precedents for AFL players originating in Sydney. Also, as far as I know the NRL does not have a rookie list in the manner that the AFL run.

There are no precedents for thugby players originating in Melbourne.

pussycat · Post by **pussycat** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:13 pm

TLPG wrote:
Hammer, whilst I take your point about crystal balling - there are precedents for AFL players originating in Sydney. Also, as far as I know the NRL does not have a rookie list in the manner that the AFL run.

There are no precedents for thugby players originating in Melbourne.

There are also some NRL players who played there junior football in Victoria. Not alot , but we haven't been pushing our barrow for 30 years

Onions · Post by **Onions** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:25 pm

And getting it wrong in the first ten, so that doesn't fucking count Kitten!!

pussycat · Post by **pussycat** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:54 pm

Onions wrote:
And getting it wrong in the first ten, so that doesn't ******* count Kitten!!

Hardy getting it wrong, as mentioned earlier by Raider, The Storm juniour teams have a stack of homegrown talent in them.

Ps. Is it the onions that give you such a foul mouth?

AFL Warrior · Post by **AFL Warrior** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:06 pm

Why would us Victorians support or play a garbage game such as Ruby League?

pussycat · Post by **pussycat** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:35 pm

AFL Warrior wrote:
Why would us Victorians support or play a garbage game such as Ruby League?

I guess the same reason almost 90 thousand went to watch a rugby league match ..... the sporting community of Victoria are dead set bored to death by the current dribble there being dished up.

AFL Warrior · Post by **AFL Warrior** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:40 pm

We Victorian also have the Melbourne Comedy Festival and they only reason 90,000 went to the G to watch the State of Boredom was becasue we love a good laugh!

Raiderdave · Post by **Raiderdave** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:33 pm

Hammerhead wrote:
Rugby, TLPG. To call it that other name is rude.

Its actually

League Hammer ...... League

Rugby is an entirely different sport alltogether

Raiderdave · Post by **Raiderdave** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:38 pm

AFFP wrote:
pussycat wrote:
AFL Warrior wrote:
Why would us Victorians support or play a garbage game such as Ruby League?
I guess the same reason almost 90 thousand went to watch a rugby league match ..... the sporting community of Victoria are dead set bored to death by the current dribble there being dished up.
Oh really? How come we still get the crowds that Sydney rugby can only dream of? How much did Penrith get last time out again? :<>

Sydney Rugby

>
are we talking about Randwick ... Eastwood

well they dream of getting NRL sized crowds too

& how many did Penrith Rugby get last time ?
their rugby team would of gotten about 200
their League side got 14 Thousand odd

about triple what GWS will get most weeks in a few years

Onions · Post by **Onions** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:48 pm

Raiderdave wrote:
Hammerhead wrote:
Rugby, TLPG. To call it that other name is rude.
Its actually

League Hammer ...... League

Rugby is an entirely different sport alltogether

Bullshit. It comes from the same thing.

Raiderdave · Post by **Raiderdave** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:52 pm

Onions wrote:
Raiderdave wrote:
Hammerhead wrote:
Rugby, TLPG. To call it that other name is rude.
Its actually

League Hammer ...... League

Rugby is an entirely different sport alltogether
Bullshit. It comes from the same thing.

Its as close as Chalk n cheese ... you ignorant ******* dribbler

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