Discarded Brisbane Lions rookie Colm Begley is the best known of the Emerald Isle invasion. He will train at Collingwood alongside fellow Irishman Marty Clarke in a bid to add to his 29 AFL games.
The other Irishmen are Connor Meredith and Niall McKeever, who will try their luck at Richmond, and Brian Donnelly who will do pre-season with the Adelaide Crows.
While most clubs have not nominated many players to train with their squad, Port Adelaide has been given permission for former premiership player Josh Carr and 17 players from the SANFL to train with them.
Carr left Fremantle after the 2008 season but was unable to win a trade back to Port Adelaide during the exchange period last month.
Richmond has also selected 10 players to train including former Port Adelaide players Adam Cockshell and Fabian Deluca, as well as recently delisted Tiger duo David Gourdis and Tristan Cartledge.
Former Crow Hayden Skipworth will try out with Essendon after impressing with their VFL affiliate, the Bendigo Bombers, while former Brisbane Lion Matthew Moody will train with Fremantle.
Chris Johnson has already begun training with Carlton after he could not agree to contract terms with Melbourne.
Brisbane Lions Daniel Dzufer and Joel Tippett, Collingwood’s Tobias Thoolen, Carlton’s Darren Pfeiffer, Essendon’s Tom Hislop, North Melbourne’s Alan Obst and Sydney’s Kristin Thornton will all train with the clubs that delisted them at season’s end.
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