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| Beat me to the punch! LOL Just read that, interesting but gee it sounds like a Hail Mary. Having said that, In Hine We Trust. |
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| This is left-field, even for Hiney. http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/pies-take-pu nt-on-soccer-tall/2007/12/20/1197740466645.html Pies get the drop and take a punt on soccer tall Jake Niall EVER willing to recruit from unconventional places, Collingwood has signed a super-tall, teenage soccer player from Gympie in Queensland who has barely played Australian football. The AFL has just granted the Magpies permission to "pre-list" 202-centimetre Lachlan Keefe, a soccer midfielder, who will be placed on the club's rookie list — as Irish recruits are — at the end of 2008. Having hit the jackpot with Irish prodigy Martin Clark — and with another Irishman, Kevin Dyas, also showing promise — Collingwood is confident that 17-year-old Keefe also has the capacity to learn how to play the game, virtually from scratch. The Magpies hope they can teach Keefe to become a long-term ruckman, the position that the club has identified as a weakness in need of redress following the 2007 finals series, trading its first pick for Brisbane Lions' Cameron Wood. Collingwood recruiting manager Derek Hine said Keefe, who is not a registered Australian footballer with any club, had played only "three or four games" with his school in Brisbane, and had not picked up an oval ball until this year. The Magpies have taken advantage of an obscure AFL rule that allows clubs to sign a player, as if he were a free agent, provided he has not been registered in a (Australian rules) football competition for three years. The rule is almost never utilised by clubs. It is understood that the aggressive Magpies fended off interest from other clubs, including Brisbane and Hawthorn, to sign Keefe. Their signing follows Sydney's securing, under the same rule, of a tall volleyballer/basketballer , Jake Oreal. Both Keefe and Oreal attended a Australian Institute of Sport-AFL camp in Canberra early this month. AIS high performance coach and ex-Fitzroy coach and Geel ... |
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