Dr Tigris
Brownlow Medallist
I think their logic is that they want AFL lists to be mainly ready-to-go, with kids developing at lower levels. It's the stars that make the AFL money, not the developing kids.
But then their whole draft logic is that kids are drafted and developed on lists. So do they want development to not happen? If that's what they want then they should introduce something like 5 players in the affiliated VFL etc team being contracted to the AFL team and able to be picked up cheaply if they are developed by the AFL team.
We don't have equivalent of the US college system. So this makes no sense to me.