Dogs tap into Fijian talent

[Topdog]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Better to have failed while trying to do something.

PS. Nic Nat aint much.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Better to have failed while trying to do something.

That's fine for the big clubs where $100,000 means much, much less. But that would have been the equivalent of funding a 2 rookies for a year, or one rookie for 2 years. That to me represents much, much higher chances of actually getting a player who might carve an AFL career, and a much better chance of a RoI.

[Topdog]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

That's fine for the big clubs where $100,000 means much, much less. But that would have been the equivalent of funding a 2 rookies for a year, or one rookie for 2 years. That to me represents much, much higher chances of actually getting a player who might carve an AFL career, and a much better chance of a RoI.

Did we not get some extra funding from the AFL for this?

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

I just searched google, I couldn't find a reference to any support to the club, but an AFL puff piece talked about trying to start a comp in Fiji. And this:

The Bulldogs' Project Fiji scheme has signed Inoke Ratu, 19 and Solomoni Loki, 16 to the club's international scholarship program.

Ratu is described as "athletic, very competitive and raw" while Loki has a "silky running style, great hands and an incredible aptitude for ball sport".

Bulldogs development coach Simon Dalrymple said both youngsters showed good game sense and ball handling skills in a recent trial game held in wet conditions in the Fijian capital of Suva.

[azabob]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

I just searched google, I couldn't find a reference to any support to the club, but an AFL puff piece talked about trying to start a comp in Fiji. And this:

The Bulldogs' Project Fiji scheme has signed Inoke Ratu, 19 and Solomoni Loki, 16 to the club's international scholarship program.

Ratu is described as "athletic, very competitive and raw" while Loki has a "silky running style, great hands and an incredible aptitude for ball sport". Bulldogs development coach Simon Dalrymple said both youngsters showed good game sense and ball handling skills in a recent trial game held in wet conditions in the Fijian capital of Suva.

You should have gone to page one, post one of thsi very thread for the very same puff piece!

[anfo27]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

That's fine for the big clubs where $100,000 means much, much less. But that would have been the equivalent of funding a 2 rookies for a year, or one rookie for 2 years. That to me represents much, much higher chances of actually getting a player who might carve an AFL career, and a much better chance of a RoI.

Didn't Scott Bassett fund the fiji experiment?

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Didn't Scott Bassett fund the fiji experiment?

I thought Scott paid for Tom Davidson??

Either way, that money could have been invested in a rookie or two.

[Bornadog]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

So with Majak Daw starting to rise in the ranks, have we been over to Sudan try find the next tall athletically gifted player that has never played our game?

Don't need to plenty of young Sudanese boys living in the West and all over Melbourne.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Don't need to plenty of young Sudanese boys living in the West and all over Melbourne.

That's my point. Why go to a country of origin like Fiji because Nic Nat hailed from that area? We should be looking at Australian kids with different family orgins who at least know the game. It was a weird decision, but silence for a few years now.

[Bornadog]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

That's my point. Why go to a country of origin like Fiji because Nic Nat hailed from that area? We should be looking at Australian kids with different family orgins who at least know the game. It was a weird decision, but silence for a few years now.

Well dead and buried and not sure why we are discussing this anyway.

[Greystache]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Well dead and buried and not sure why we are discussing this anyway.

Because those people who questioned it were shouted down at the time and have since been proven correct.

[Bornadog]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Because those people who questioned it were shouted down at the time and have since been proven correct.

6 years later , good on them they were right.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Because those people who questioned it were shouted down at the time and have since been proven correct.

Oh please. So what!

[Greystache]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

6 years later , good on them they were right.

And those who were shouting them down at the time are very keen to dismiss the whole project as ancient history. No surprise.

[Greystache]

Re: Dogs tap into Fijian talent

Oh please. So what!

Seriously?

Sounds like Carolyn Wilson logic- I'll throw around as many accusations as I like today, but if you bring them up tomorrow I'll tell you you're living in the past and just trying to make me look bad.