Gold Coast set for VFL entry

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Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, September 24 2009 @ 10:59 am ACST

I think you're on the money. It will be very interesting to see how they compile their list. If you were a state league player aged 18 to 24 who still had AFL aspirations then GC could be your best chance.

You'd think they would pick up around 5 to 8 players in their early 20s to add experience during what should be a pretty tough VFL season, and if any of them play really well they may take a few into the AFL in 2011, depending of course on how many established AFL players they manage to convince to make the switch at the end of 2010. I guess the risk for any state league player is that they would only be offered a 1 year contract for 2010, but still, many would take it to be under the nose of the next AFL side. In the final squad for 2011 I'd guess there might end up being 2 or 3 state league players, up to 10 established AFL players, and the rest very talented 17 to 19 year olds.

With at least 12 very talented 17 year olds about to be added to GC's list there is some serious cutting underway. As mentioned in the article, they also get the first 5 picks at the AFL Rookie Draft (that's outside the main draft each year), and have 10 Queenslanders signed up, so that's 27 players for 2010 that will be locked in - it will be interesting to see if the Papuans Stanis Susuve and Amua Pirika survive. We'll let people know as soon as we find out.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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