End of the AFL journey for American Pie?

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End of the AFL journey for American Pie?

Authored by: Wesley Hull
on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 11:08 pm ACDT

Shae should be enormously proud of his efforts to go as far as he did. Better players than Shae have failed to get that far, and many higher quality players have been cut. It is the nature of the AFL beast. But I hope he can look at his efforts as a link in a chain that will see more and more international players take up the sport and succeed at the highest level. Back in the 1980's people would have laughed (did laugh) at the idea of non-Australian born players getting to AFL level. Then along come Jim Stynes and Sean Wight. Others have come and gone, and a new breed is now entering the scene. Eric Wallace, Gideon Simon, Kurt Heatherley, Ciaran Kilkenny are now walking through that door that has been forced further ajar by the likes of Shae and of course Mike Pyke at Sydney, Marty Clarke at Collingwood and many more. The other lads who attended the international combines both here and in the USA may still play a part in an expaned international future. We might yet see names like Tyler Mounce from Orange County Bombers make the transition. Brendan Beno has the chance to go further as well as maybe others like Sean Hurley and Emmett Bradley from Ireland or Yoshi Harris from Nauru and even Chen Shao Liang from China. If they do, they can look at the efforts of Shae who proved that the big time is attainable, even if he missed his dream of a home and away match. Thanks, Shae.

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