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Woodville-West Torrens SA's talent pool

07/07/2010

EAGLES SA’s LOCAL TALENT POOL

THE national Under-18’s Championship was recently completed interstate with the South Aussie boys coming agonisingly close to tasting glory for the first time since Russell Ebert’s 1995 outfit.

The Eagles representation at the champs showed the strength of junior football in Adelaide’s west and further boosted the already high reputation Woodville-West Torrens has for developing future League and AFL talent.

Brodie Smith (pictured), who was awarded SA’s MVP award for the champs, Jared Polec, Nathan Bately, Zac Fitzgerald and Jake von Bertouch all played well throughout the national tournament.

Also, Smith and Polec were awarded All-Australian jumpers for their solid form, which you can read about in the Weekly Times Messenger this week.

Back home in the SANFL Under-18 competition, the Maccas Cup, silky-skilled Cameron Sutcliffe won this round’s MVP – the Eagles’ third nomination this year.

Josh Growden and Jarrod Harding are the other two nominees.

More over, the Eagles have 15 AFL-listed players on its 2010 League list and have had more than a dozen juniors drafted in the last decade.

Eagles at Adelaide AFL teams:

Mitch Banner
Nathan Bock
Matthew Broadbent
Brett Burton
Glenn Dawson
Trent Hentschel
Jarrhan Jacky
Chris Knights
Jared Petrenko
Jarrad Redden
Nick Salter
Jay Schulz
Paul Stewart
Luke Thompson
Bernie Vince

Also, Matthew Stokes, Matthew Pavlich, Brian Lake, Christian Bock, Byron Sumner and Sam Jacobs are all Eagles currently flying for interstate AFL clubs.

Other Adelaide-based AFL-listed players (*contains those drafted from interstate):

North (10 AFL players on its list): Matthew Wright (Adelaide), Phil Davis (Adelaide), James Craig (Adelaide), Daniel Stewart (Port Adelaide), Wade Thompson (Port Adelaide), Roary Sloan (Adelaide), Andrew Moore (Port Adelaide), Tony Armstrong (Adelaide), Daniel Motlop (Port Adelaide), Marlon Motlop (Port Adelaide)

South (11): Michael Doughty (Adelaide), Simon Goodwin (Adelaide), Dean Brogan (Port Adelaide), Daniel Talia (Adelaide), Myke Cook (Adelaide), Daniel Bass (Port Adelaide), Shaun McKernan (Adelaide), David McKay (Adelaide), Andy Otten (Adelaide), Nathan van Berlo (Adelaide), Alipate Carlisle (Port Adelaide)

West (15): Tyson Edwards (Adelaide), Jason Porplyzia (Adelaide), Ben Rutten (Adelaide), Hamish Hartlett (Port Adelaide), Daniel Webb (Port Adelaide), Scott Harding (Port Adelaide), Jason Davenport (Port Adelaide), Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide), Brad Moran (Adelaide), Chris Schmidt (Adelaide), Kurt Tippett (Adelaide), Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide), Dom Casissi (Port Adelaide), Matthew Lobbe (Port Adelaide), Michael Pettigrew (Port Adelaide)

Sturt (6): Matthew Jaensch (Adelaide), Brodie Martin (Adelaide), Danyle Pearce (Port Adelaide), Jasper Pittard (Port Adelaide), Brent Reilly (Adelaide), Troy Chaplin (Port Adelaide)

Glenelg (11): James Sellar (Adelaide), Chad Cornes (Port Adelaide), Kane Cornes (Port Adelaide), Cameron Hitchcock (Port Adelaide), Sam Shaw (Port Adelaide), Richard Douglas (Adelaide), Josh Carr (Port Adelaide), Travis Boak (Port Adelaide), Steven Salopek (Port Adelaide), Tom Logan (Port Adelaide), Danny Meyer (Port Adelaide)

Port Adelaide (11): Graeme Johncock (Adelaide), Scott Thompson (Port Adelaide), Brett Ebert (Port Adelaide), Warren Tredrea (Port Adelaide), Cameron Cloke (Port Adelaide), John Butcher (Port Adelaide), Jackson Trengrove (Port Adelaide), Ivan Maric (Port Adelaide), Andrew McLeod (Adelaide), Scott Stevens (Adelaide), Nathan Krakouer (Port Adelaide)

Central (8): Brad Symes (Adelaide), Justin Westhoff (Port Adelaide), Matthew Westhoff (Port Adelaide), Jack Gunston (Adelaide), Ricky Henderson (Adelaide), Jonathon Griffen (Adelaide), Jacob Surjan (Port Adelaide), Jay Nash (Port Adelaide)

Norwood (4): Will Young (Adelaide), David Rodan (Port Adelaide), Taylor Walker (Adelaide), Matt Thomas (Port Adelaide)

INSIDE THE NEST
LOSS = WIN

JARRAD “Booffa” Wright turned a negative into a very good positive this week.

He locked himself out of his house and had to drive to the Eagles Bar and Bistro to pick up the spare set of keys from his brother, having tea there at the time.

Upon arrival to the EB&B, Wright decided to put a one dollar coin in his pocket from change left over from his new ink on his forearm (for another blog at another time) into a pokie machine, which resulted in free spins and a $500 win.

He left the EB&B, spare keys in hand, with 500 large in his wallet. All in all, a great turnout for the Booffanator.

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

EAGLES’ head trainer Mike “The Guru” Whinnen was tracked down by the Essendon Bombers last week to help run water and provide his engineering expertise to the Bomber players.

Eagles Press Limited understands AFL clubs sometime source interstaters to help out the team when they play away.

Whinnen said the experience was great and he learned a lot about the differing levels of professionalism in the AFL and SANFL, like the amount of staff and support staff and, in general, the people surrounding the players.

Unfortunately Whinnen’s McGyver like qualities couldn’t help the Bombers get over the line.

AND ANOTHER THING

SINCE opening the channels of communication between Inside the Eagles Nest and you, its avid readers, with eaglespress@live.com.au last week the responses have come flooding in...not.

The only response the blog has had in the last week was from a “Mrs Melissa”, who was bequeathing her life’s fortune of $5 million to me for my work in the name of the Lord. All I have to do to get the money is to supply my bank details by reply email.

NUMBER CRUNCHING

9 – The number of possessions Sturt’s John Hinge gathered on the weekend to be judged third best player by the Sunday Mail’s Scott Walsh in the match report (for the record, Sturt’s Tristian Gum, who gathered more than 20 touches, four tackles and four goals didn’t get a mention). Nine is also the number of tubes of shower gel I’ve gone through this season – the boys always forget to bring their own soap. Also John Hinge has nine letters.

2 – The number of tackles Nathan Daniel had on the weekend and also the number of first names he has. Other Eagles players with two first names are Scott Lewis, Brad Graham, Glenn Dawson, Matthew Elliot, James Stewart, Paul Stewart and Bernie Vince. Also, Michael Godden is one of only two players to be drafted at pick 116 in the National Draft– the other was Brendan Bricknell.

82 – The number of marks the Eagles League team had against Sturt on the weekend and also the number of goals Victor A Geue kicked in the 1930 SANFL season to win West Torrens’ leading goal kicker award.

8 – The number of kicks Jared Petrenko (eight letters) had on the weekend and also the number of wins the Eagles League team has had this year. Michael Godden’s coaching opponent this week, also, Nathan Bassett, wore jumper number eight for the Crows. West Torrens finished in 8th position six times in its history.