Centrals Juniors

[FRED]

According to the weekends budget Centrals had 14 players with less than 20 games experience, 3 with less than 30 games, more than any other club. Whether this is relevant or not, an interesting point.

[SANFLnut]

Interesting to compare sturts under 17 / 18 program of the last 4 years to centrals and outside of Trengrove (who was a man boy) I don't think they have too many that have played league. Jack Stevens and Fraser Evans have finally been given a shot. Wingard was always going to play at some stage before being drafted. I know they had a couple go to GWS as 17's but all mentioned are college boys. Sam day was more a college boy as well and played spasmodically at sturt. The rest of that group have either left for whatever reasons and the rest are playing in the magoos. I know our local club has absolutely no contact from them and we are in their zone with 5 junior sides. Interesting we get more calls from west and norwood who I know from experience run first rate programmes like the eagles do. They would have to be the benchmark.


I reckon there were eight players that played juniors at Sturt who were in their 21 on the weekend plus Wingard, Jones, Jaensch and Pearce who have played earlier in the year. I would have thought that would be a similar breakdown at most clubs. If you slotted in Gowans, Boyd, Callinan, O'Sullivan,slattery into dogs side it would probably be at the expense of some of their local boys so those numbers are pretty fluid.