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Plenty in the tank for AFL's overseas born heroes

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Saturday, October 20 2007 @ 12:16 am ACST

Also note that Brad Moran was last week traded from North Melbourne to Adelaide, where he sees his development opportunities as greater - it's no secret the Roos have one of the smaller off-field budgets for player development, and the Crows one of the larger.

More in this article: http://realfooty.com.au/news/news/adelaide-fits-moran/2007/10/16/1192300769591.html

and also http://afc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/4417/Default.aspx?newsId=52548

On the other hand, the one player listed as Zimbabwe born, 28 year old Ian Perrie at Adelaide, was de-listed by the Crows, after a pretty solid but often frustrating career in which he struggled with consistent accuracy in goal kicking. He finished with 116 AFL games and 129 goals in 10 seasons.

Crows General Manager – Football Operations John Reid said: “Ian must be congratulated on his long career with the Adelaide Football Club. He has made the most of his talent and been a valuable contributor to our football club over a decade, which is a great credit to him. We thank him for his efforts and wish him all the best.”

Also of interest is that Adelaide has decided to draft Taylor Walker. Walker was mentored by Adelaide under the AFL's compulsory scheme where each AFL club had to scholarship list one or two NSW players. A similar but non-compulsory and as yet unused scheme exists for international players. The NSW version has already paid dividends for Adelaide as clearly they believe Walker a worthwhile recruit. From memory, he recently starred in the Broken Hill league's grand final. Although it should be noted that Broken Hill is not quite the Sydney heartland the AFL is trying to penetrate - it lies at the western edge of NSW and is actually closer to Adelaide and heavily influenced by South Australia, often regarded as a de facto SA town. View location on a map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=broken+hill,+australia&ie=UTF8&ll=-31.718822,141.778564&spn=15.708553,41.132813&z=5&om=1

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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