Obviously low cost of living and cheap housing in Geelong trumps the sun every day of the week.
Not to mention you can buy a pub for $1 in Geelong. If you are a good enough footballer that is.
Money talks. Bullshit walks.
Prediction Draft tampering is allowed now and AFL is completely alright with it this season. (Good to know)
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Obviously low cost of living and cheap housing in Geelong trumps the sun every day of the week.
Not to mention you can buy a pub for $1 in Geelong. If you are a good enough footballer that is.
Money talks. Bullshit walks.
West Coast were forced to trade out pick 2 because the Melbourne mummy boys.
If the AFL want a national competition they need to bring in NBA rookie contracts, maxi contracts, and teams having the ability to trade out players without their consent.
The Victorian county kids seem to be loyal, it’s the inner Melbourne mummy boys that are the issue.
Serong and Young had a bromance which has worked out well.
Can you actually read?
"I'm happy to play my footy wherever i get picked"
Dude, you're just embarrassing yourself
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100%.
AFL is putting in $40m into GWS and Gold Coast only to see there players getting poached before they mature.
Might be time to get of the Gold Coast Suns and replace them with Tasmania.
Unless the AFL doesn't something about Draft tampering and retention issues for Gold Coast, then the Suns are a lost cause.
Langdon say hi mummy too.Jackson the mummy boy
Forced? Lol, don't make me laugh.
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There are only two clubs in WA, risk of not getting drafted at all if they say that, as opposed to 11 in Victoria.Yeah ok no worries. So what I'm getting is Eagles/Freo tell all WA draftees to say this. I do not want to play interstate. I love WA and hope to god I stay in WA. I will cry and my family will be hugely dissapointed if I dont get drafted to a WA club. In fact I would really really hate to be drafted to a Vic Club. They make me sick and will look at first opportunity to leave and return home as soon as possible if they draft me.
But again whoops almost forgot if one Vic club drafts me I will give it a good crack.
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Draft tampering has been legal since a team buried a top 5 pick with the "injuries" rumour in 2010 so they could get him in the mid 20's.
Draft age needs to be lifted, young men need to spend a year in the real world before becoming AFL footballer. Clubs also need to have the option to sign draftees up on longer contracts if they chose to.
Just make rookie contracts 3 years and excluded from being traded.
It would be waste to not have the likes of Nick Daicos in the AFL this year. Not sure what they'd learn by doing a weird year between school and AFL - it'd probably just be another year of full-time sport at some elite team anyway.
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If there's a clear intent to dissuade certain teams from drafting you, then it really is. But it will always remain impossible to prove, players will learn how to word it precisely so they are 'prepared to move interstate but would prefer to stay home'.
Don't think this would help, the players would still be at home and I doubt they will be any less reluctant to leave family and friends at 19 than 18.
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There might be different outcomes if clubs have the ability to draft a player and immediately trade them, or draft them signed to a longer deal with a signing bonus.
Then a club can take the clear number one pick, he doesn't want to sign the long term deal and he can be effectively auctioned in trade for players and picks from other clubs.
Let's consider last year. Adelaide really wanted JHF. If JHF is the best player in the draft and he can comfortably say he wants to stay in Adelaide and the AFL opens the door for three years of picks being traded then North can comfortably pick him at #1, then immediately trade him to Adelaide or Port Adelaide for whoever offers the best deal.
A looooot of rule changes needed for that one.
Then a club can take the clear number one pick, he doesn't want to sign the long term deal and he can be effectively auctioned in trade for players and picks from other clubs.
Let's consider last year. Adelaide really wanted JHF. If JHF is the best player in the draft and he can comfortably say he wants to stay in Adelaide and the AFL opens the door for three years of picks being traded then North can comfortably pick him at #1, then immediately trade him to Adelaide or Port Adelaide for whoever offers the best deal.
A looooot of rule changes needed for that one.
Players can't draft tamper.
Players argue their preferences, and threaten to leave. That is not tampering.
They don't campaign. They simply state they want to stay.
I don't agree with it. The AFL can stop this stuff, but the players have all the say now.
Call it what you like. It doesn't matter. Mental health rules now. Every draft is comprised. Almost every AFL system is.
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