WESTIES Arrivals & Departures

[RedandBlackBlood]

8-Dec-05, 11:18 AM firstblood

other departures from west.....
dean howard.......north
pat stienfort......retired (thank god)
andrew crowell...retired
ben dray.....overseas travel

arrivals at west........
ben hollands....returned.
ben haynes.....richmond..if not picked in draft.
kyle archibald....19 year old forward delisted by richmond.
marcus mcwilliam....21 year old centre halve forward... from yarrawonga..
lance oswald....24 year old on baller from yarrawonga.
jackson barling...20 year old centre halve back....from
vfl williamstown.
more to come....

[RedandBlackBlood]

FirstBlood are these arrivals all confirmed?

Have we signed David Westbrook and Cupido?

[RedandBlackBlood]

Westies Web site says.........

Departures
Ben Dray - Overseas Travel
Pat Steinfort - Retired
Dion Myles - Retired
Andrew Crowell - Retired
Dean Howard - North Adelaide Football Club
Brad Dabrowski - Woodville West Torrens Football Club

Arrivals
Ben Hollands (returning after 3 seasons)
2001 Steve Hamra Medallist (WAFC)

Ben Haynes
Delisted from Essendon Football Club
182 cms
24 years old
Versatile player who can play back, forward or on the ball

Kyle Archibald
Delisted from Richmond Football Club
191 cms
19 years old
Strong marking forward

Marcus McMillan
Yarrawonga
191 cms
21 years old
Centre half forward

Lance Oswald
Yarrawonga
183 cms
24 years old
Hard running on baller

Jackson Barling
VFL - Williamstown
191 cms
20 years old
Centre half back

Stay tuned for more arrivals!!

Any Comments

[Grimmett]

Westies departure:


AFL SHOCK FOR LEN

First published by:

Wimmera Mail-Times
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

By Megan Hustwaite

The meteoric rise of former Murtoa footballer Lenny Clark, 22, has continued with the ruckman winning selection on an AFL club rookie list.
Clark, who appeared in state league football in Adelaide almost by mistake, will join the Brisbane Lions after the club selected him with pick 22 in yesterday’s rookie draft.
Clark has played for West Adelaide in the SANFL for the past 18 months and told the Mail-Times his drafting came as a surprise.
“I’m absolutely over the moon. I’m very shocked, I didn’t expect this at all,” he said. “I was at work and Brisbane called in the morning to say they’d taken me with their last pick and that they’d get in touch with me later on to give me more details. It’s all happened so quick, it’s very hard to believe.”
Clark, who works for an accounting firm in Adelaide, moved to S.A. four years ago to study a bachelor of commerce degree.
He joined West Adelaide on invitation from coach and former Adelaide premiership player Shaun Rehn who watched him play amateur football with Edwardstown early last year.
“I came over to Adelaide and didn’t play footy for the first year and during that time I came back and played a few games for the Burras in the Wimmera League,” he said. “The following year I played amateurs and then Shaun Rehn approached me to see if I wanted to have a go in the SANFL.”
Clark said he played a consistent year in 2004 but injuries interrupted his season this year.
“I had a niggling problem with my knee this year and missed a lot of games,” he said. “I had the knee cleaned up at the end of the season and I’m about to start running, but because of the injury I wrote myself off. I had a few phone calls from a couple of clubs, but no real indication, so I didn’t expect anything.”
He said he was looking forward to moving to Brisbane to try to make his mark at AFL level.
“Now I’ve just got to train hard once I get up there and take advantage of the opportunity,” he said. “It’s important I work hard because you don’t get many chances at the big time and I want to play senior footy. There’ll be a fair few blokes in line to get a game at Brisbane before me. They have some of the best ruckmen going around in Clark Keating and Jamie Charman and I’m sure they’ll be awesome to learn from.”
Former Burras coach David Delahunty, who coached Clark in under-17’s, said he was delighted to hear of the news.
“I’m absolutely rapt, it’s just fantastic,” he said. “It doesn’t really come as a surprise to me because he’s a kid who is six feet seven inches, he can kick with both feet, he can jump and he’s very athletic. What does surprise me is how he slipped through the Wimmera ranks and never made the Rebels under-18 team and the likes.”
Rookies cannot play AFL senior games unless clubs have vacancies caused by long-term injury or retirement.


Also posted at http://araratfc.vcfl.com.au

[MW]

Can anyone in the know tell me whether Westies are going for anymore recruits or are we done?

[Coorong]

Not done yet MW. Stay tuned

[Blacky]

Can anyone in the know tell me whether Westies are going for anymore recruits or are we done?

the way our recruiting going this year we will be lucky to win a game
would have to be the worst i have ever seen at the club
please people tell me it is not that bad

[TigerBoss]

Kyle Archibald had HUGE wraps on him at Richmond but unfortunately he NEVER made the step up. I think for a while there he was also struggling to get a gig with Coburg, Richmond's AFL affiliate but a strong marking forward his size does NOT grow on trees...

He couldn't be any worse than "Your goal Wiggins" the worm-eating hack.

[stan]

He couldn't be any worse than "Your goal Wiggins" the worm-eating hack.

Wiggans still there this season?

[stan]

I mean there have been that many leaving it is hard to keep track.

[Strawb]

What we need is ruckmen and soon for westies to do good this season we need ruckmen. I feel we will improve as long as we get some ruckmen. Wake up DOUG and realise this we the supporters are a part of the club and we need success only South has not won a flag since we won our last. Woodville and West Torrens have one one as the Eagles. Enough is enough we need success and it is our time to create that success. We have good juniors but we also need to recruit.

[firstblood]

2 more players recruited to west.....
brydon morgan
ryan o'sullivan
i noticed these names on the wafc web site.
anyone know anything about them?

[redandblack]

2 more players recruited to west.....
brydon morgan
ryan o'sullivan
i noticed these names on the wafc web site.
anyone know anything about them?

Brydon Morgan comes from country Victoria. Looks a solid type.

Ryan O'Sullivan is a ruckman, again from country Vic.

Did I say a ruckman - hooray!

[Footy Chick]

The name Ryan o'sullivan sounds familiar, is he from the wimmera league R&B??

[redandblack]

I'm not sure, but I think he might be.

I'll find out.

[Claret Pedigree]

I haven't been on for a while but what happened to Culpitt?.

[Coorong]

Dont you mean Neely? My mail was someone at the club blew it.

I am wondering who the new recruit "captain bloodhound" is! He will probably be heavily cencored.

Congrats to Gary P. I'll bet the old boy had trouble announcing that one, Well done Patto and some others who shall remain nameless.

I understand one more name is to be added to our list soon.

[Strawb]

it is about time we started getting the recruits. was down at werribee football club today and they love Salim Hassan. I only wish he was still at Westies.

[Blacky]

Congrats to Gary P. I'll bet the old boy had trouble announcing that one
when will it be annouced coorong
i haven't heard anythink official

[Coorong]

Its on the web site Blacky.