Taylor
Community Leader
- Moderator
- #151
All of the academies are a scam afforded to balance a previous scam.
Fremantle exists because the VFL was worried all the WA players would move home to West Coast and get paid outside the cap to show up to car dealerships bbqs and on the news.
NGA is an answer to complaints about the northern academies giving clubs access to extra elite talent in a system where the next pick is enough to secure it.
...just like father son picks were, which was also changed when the benefit started to heavily advantage a club over another.
The AFL has gotten to the point where clubs need to be getting that extra elite father son or academy player to keep touch with the rest assuming all clubs have the same injuries.
Especially clubs without long histories of father son pick options. Last time I checked Freo has only 40 guys qualify for their sons to be selected by Freo under the 100 game rule and almost all of them only finished playing in the last five to ten years so there won't be any sons out of them for another ten years.
The advantages for clubs to secure extra elite talent lingers in the competition for a decade or more. The example of this is Hawkins/Selwood. Under current rules Geelong only have Hawkins, their first rounder would have been chewed up on him, instead they got him for a third round pick and the extra elite player at #7... and they've benefited from that for a long time.
Priority picks, father son picks, academy picks etc all compromise the system and advantage the team that benefits from securing the player for the career of the player.
Freo shouldn't have special access to Henry, but it's the only help we will get.
The access to the metro indigenous guys after pick 40 next year is far more reasonable of a system. In theory it gives all clubs two chances to pick the WA player and after that Freo/WCE can mitigate the risk of taking the player by not using a pick on him.
At least the current system makes the club pay something closer to the value of the priority access player.
That discount could be the means by which investment in the junior could be rewarded, five years and high school paid for = 50% discount. Etc
Bare min time in the system and showing up for a few training sessions = 0% discount
No time in the system and just living in a zone = 0% discount and no priority access.
We need to build the game in NSW and QLD, rewarding earlier and greater investment in junior programs is the way to go in my opinion. Not interested in removing access for those clubs, that's counter intuitive.
Fremantle exists because the VFL was worried all the WA players would move home to West Coast and get paid outside the cap to show up to car dealerships bbqs and on the news.
NGA is an answer to complaints about the northern academies giving clubs access to extra elite talent in a system where the next pick is enough to secure it.
...just like father son picks were, which was also changed when the benefit started to heavily advantage a club over another.
The AFL has gotten to the point where clubs need to be getting that extra elite father son or academy player to keep touch with the rest assuming all clubs have the same injuries.
Especially clubs without long histories of father son pick options. Last time I checked Freo has only 40 guys qualify for their sons to be selected by Freo under the 100 game rule and almost all of them only finished playing in the last five to ten years so there won't be any sons out of them for another ten years.
The advantages for clubs to secure extra elite talent lingers in the competition for a decade or more. The example of this is Hawkins/Selwood. Under current rules Geelong only have Hawkins, their first rounder would have been chewed up on him, instead they got him for a third round pick and the extra elite player at #7... and they've benefited from that for a long time.
Priority picks, father son picks, academy picks etc all compromise the system and advantage the team that benefits from securing the player for the career of the player.
Freo shouldn't have special access to Henry, but it's the only help we will get.
The access to the metro indigenous guys after pick 40 next year is far more reasonable of a system. In theory it gives all clubs two chances to pick the WA player and after that Freo/WCE can mitigate the risk of taking the player by not using a pick on him.
At least the current system makes the club pay something closer to the value of the priority access player.
That discount could be the means by which investment in the junior could be rewarded, five years and high school paid for = 50% discount. Etc
Bare min time in the system and showing up for a few training sessions = 0% discount
No time in the system and just living in a zone = 0% discount and no priority access.
We need to build the game in NSW and QLD, rewarding earlier and greater investment in junior programs is the way to go in my opinion. Not interested in removing access for those clubs, that's counter intuitive.