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CLUBS watched on as American prospect Mason Cox kicked off his trial for a place on an AFL list with an hour's training session at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday.
Recruiters from North Melbourne, Collingwood, Richmond and Port Adelaide were present as the 211cm former basketball and soccer player went through a range of skill-related drills.
Kangaroos coach Brad Scott was also in attendance.
As part of his eight-day visit to Australia, Cox will spend a day at each of the four clubs as the bidding begins to gain his signature as an international rookie.
Yes because we need another international rookie who has no concept about our game whatsoever, and we need to continue to invest more money and resources into finding more of these players when we have a whole pool of them in our own backyard.
If it paid off and was a success then fine but current history has shown that it hasn't, so is it really worth it? We have exceptional talent here in Australia, so why do we need to waste our time with guys who are no good at their own sports and have no natural ability for the game. Unfortunately that's what lets them down. The fact that they haven't grown up with the game and so they have no clear understanding of the fundamentals which can only come from natural instinct - having played the game all your life.
No different to any other rookie really, apart from not already having played football there's always risks involved but if he turns out to be a great player wouldn't it be worth it? If he fails no harm no foul, every year there are players that are drafted that don't work out.
Waste the money IMO. We've got money, this is one of the few chances we have to get a leg up on the clubs who don't have the money / resources that we do. Sure it's not a very efficient way to get good players, but if we get one top 22 player from this system then it's worth it.
Witts was a NSW scholarship player IIRR, again not a very efficient system but it's paid off once, it's cost us little but money and extra coaching resources (which we have) so I don't see the down side