Re: Round 6 Sturt vs Dogs Wigan Oval Sunday 2:10
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 5:24 pm
bulldogproud wrote:Ronnie wrote:What Sturt do do well is develop their own and produce league players out of their system because recruiting has been very low key for a few years now. Challenge is will this approach be good enough to go against the likes of Eagles and Glenelg who supplement their lists with quality recruits year after year. Apart from Tom Lewis who I think skipped Reserves football most of them (Illman, Coomblas, Grivell, Voss etc) spent at least a year or two playing reserves football. It must be a reasonable environment as well to keep them there as even Penfold, a fringe player is still running around for Sturt and I remember him playing reserves footy back in 2014!
Would I be correct in stating that a number of Sturt's players have had the fortune of coming up through St. Peter's College or PAC though? They have excellent school programs that sure help.
Won’t don’t we try to help build excellent school programs in our region
An ex Centrals player has done exactly that in the mid north region thanks to a collaboration between the Eagles and the school he works at.
I think a program like that would be hugely successful in the northern suburbs especially if it meant sport was a way to increase attendances, keep kids in school and improve grades for those that aren’t as academically high achieving.