Brisbane coach Voss roots for permanent Irish AFL academy

ONE of the AFL’s most respected figures has admitted he would love to see a recruiting academy established here in Ireland.

Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss was the man who allowed Laois player Colm Begley leave the Queensland club last year but he nevertheless remains an ardent supporter of the “Irish Experiment”.

“It would be interesting to see what the outcome would be if you could grab some of these players at a very young age and go from there,” said Voss of a possible Irish recruiting station. “You’d get some good players coming out of there, that is for sure.”