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bornadog
14-01-2014, 12:17 PM
Link (http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/2014-01-13/jets-duo-dogs-for-a-week)

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Two AIS-AFL Academy students will learn just how demanding professional football can be this week, spending a week embedded at the kennel training alongside the Western Bulldogs.

As part of the AIS-AFL Academy’s program, each player has been invited to join the inner sanctum at one of the 18 clubs to form part of their final year of age group football.

The Bulldogs will provide aspiring AFL players Duom Dawam and Liam Duggan an insight into life as a footballer, giving them the opportunity to live, breathe and eat like a professional athlete for the week.

Bulldogs Development Manager Chris Maple said the two players, both from TAC Cup side the Western Jets, would be immersed in the Club’s training program from running and weights to meetings in the Development Academy.

“They will be involved in most of the program, they won’t do all the training that our AFL players do because they haven’t done the volume of training that is required to even get through sessions,” Maple said.

“But it is a real insight to them of what is required, we have buddied them up with players and they go and learn about the intensity of the training recruited and also the recovery.

“They will just keep learning about the general principles of training and the specifics of AFL footy.”

The two players live locally to Victoria University Whitten Oval, hail from the west of Melbourne.

“We’ve got a good relationship with the Jets and we want to continue to foster that,” he said.

“So to have two young western region boys – one from Bacchus Marsh and one from Werribee - coming into the footy club is fantastic for them and great for us.

“Hopefully they can get a lot out of it.”

The experience can be beneficial for the clubs as well, with a number of players going on to be drafted by their respective team.

Jake Stringer is one who firmed as a potential draftee when training with the Bulldogs in 2012, as part of the AIS-AFL Academy program.

Meanwhile Sam Darley also began his footballing apprenticeship at the kennel in 2010 through the program and has since returned to the Bulldogs, after initially being recruited by the GWS Giants.

Ghost Dog
14-01-2014, 05:55 PM
Duom Dawam and Liam Duggan -interesting! Love the fact they are from the West.

SonofScray
18-01-2014, 01:25 PM
Duggan family are mad Footscray fans as well I believe. Add some talent, are work and good luck and you potentially have a favourite son right there. We find it easier to get around people who identify as one of us.

stefoid
18-01-2014, 10:38 PM
Dawam would have to double in volume to reach playing weight.

Seriously you could make a life-size model of him using only pipe cleaners.

GVGjr
19-01-2014, 10:04 AM
Duggan family are mad Footscray fans as well I believe. Add some talent, are work and good luck and you potentially have a favourite son right there. We find it easier to get around people who identify as one of us.

What a great experience for any young player to get to spend time at a club the family has followed. It's a long shot we can land him given the nature of the draft but at the very least it's going to be a special year for him.

I still remember the look of excitement on Brad Johnson when we picked him all those years ago. Yeah, he always had a big smile on his face but there was something extra special about the grin he shot back to Terry Wheeler on that 1993 day.

Good luck to both Duom Dawam and Liam Duggan.

Hotdog60
19-01-2014, 11:49 AM
Maybe bring back the under 19's. Sign up potential young stars with a pathway direct to the club.:)

BornInDroopSt'54
19-01-2014, 07:06 PM
Maybe bring back the under 19's. Sign up potential young stars with a pathway direct to the club.:)

Yes if only but the good news is that we have a reserves team now and we can develop players and the team ethic through them.