From the Ballarat Courier
Reported by David Brehaut
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NORTH BALLARAT coach Gerard FitzGerald believes more VFL players should be picked up in the AFL national and rookie drafts.
"I don't believe the VFL talent pool receives the recognition it deserves," he said yesterday, three days out from the national draft.
Few are better credentialed than FitzGerald to comment on the lack of opportunities given to VFL players at the highest level.
FitzGerald has led three teams in a VFL coaching career spanning more than a decade, coached the VFL representative team and taken North Ballarat to premierships in the past two seasons.
He has also had a lot to do with AFL-listed players through alignments with St Kilda (Springvale) and North Melbourne (Port Melbourne and North Ballarat).
