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Besides which, it seems clear that Ashcroft is the best prospect in the draft and thus he should be bid on.

AFAIK Ashcroft is so far in front of everyone else that it would raise questions if they did this.

It would have to be. Far too many players from p35 onwards don't make it past two years - I can't see clubs wanting to hold players longer, unless there is an increase in list size.

Yep, but don't call it COLA. The other issue is that someone needs to have a serious look at brand identity for both these clubs. Gold Coast have the worst jumper and logo in the league - the Suns is a strong concept, but their logo needs to invoke a sun, not a stupid footy with 80s font. GWS...

I don't get your logic - because we currently do have an AFL draft, despite it being restraint of trade. I suspect that there would be some room in bargaining with the AFLPA to get at least three-year contracts in for first round players. There's a bit of an appetite across the league to stop...

Clubs have the ability to say no, though. GWS could have held firm on Boyd, but the fact that they were already committed to Griffen didn't help. The same goes with Norf, though Horne-Francis' behaviour meant that losses were better off being cut. It's fair to say that if it weren't for the...

It is poaching, but, as various clubs are starting to find out, large deals for players on the basis of potential can bite and bite very hard. I assume you're referring to Luke Jackson in particular, but if he keeps reproducing 2022 Luke Jackson, he could well wind up being less Max Gawn and...

There are some good ideas in here... but for all the tinkering around contracts etc, there's one major problem at the heart of this that none of it fixes: A lot of players prefer not to go to a northern expansion club. That's what puts those two sides on the back foot - either the player is...

The wheel turns. I remember a previous lifetime where Leigh Colbert left, and we thought that Mitchell White was one helluva great trade deal for a club like Geelong. Look, one day we will be down the bottom again, and it won't be so easy for us to go poaching. We don't have the huge supporter...

I don’t hate it, but you would have to remove the salary cap floor.

I don’t mind the bid matching system because at least then a price was paid, and at least those players were never on the market to begin with. I know the F/S system distorts the draft market, but I still think it’s a fantastic feature of our game. There’s something a little bit “right” about...

Cannot agree with this enough, and the Herbs and Spices (made-up) formula needs publication too. Let's say that you have pick 10, and Essendon has pick 9. Essendon loses a player through FA and is granted a compo pick right after its first pick. Congratulations, your pick is now worse due to a...

I think we'd be insane not to take him. For young medium forwards, we have a moonshot in Ollie Dempsey and that's it.

We did. We got a mid-first round pick and a late first-round pick for the GOAT. What did we get out of him, though? Just two flags and a Brownlow.

Add in Essendon and it's every flag up until 1989.

So in other words, players can be traded wherever the clubs like in the first x years of their career, without the need for player approval? Come on.

Admittedly, p55 just doesn't have choice. Usually those picks don't make it past two or three years anyway.

FWIW, I don’t think there is a major issue with the system, but Judd’s go home had to be connected to the West Coast implosion, too.

Just pop on the 92 and 94 replays mate ;)

I'm not saying this can never ever work, but it was a massive factor in the near-death of the VFL in the 70s and 80s, as powerful clubs sat back in their productive zones and ate up the best talent. Sides like South, Fitzroy, StKilda, Melbourne and Footscray either died or had near-death...

Which they could draw at a club of their choosing, too. It would not make the comp any better IMO.

Not in what the poster I was talking to was proposing unless I am mistaken?

Yeah screw Mum and siblings’ jobs, friends, relationships etc…

At age 18, sure - and that’s worked pretty well in most cases. But getting traded all across the country against your wishes at, say, 28? No way. And there is no good reason for it that Incan see.

It’s not that easy to just move a whole family interstate

It does seem at odds with Murican notions of FREEDUM

There’s also something a little bit unintentionally sexist about it, too. Hello, we’re trading you to Boston. Oh, your wife has a job here and enjoys it? That’s too bad

I can’t speak for the others but the NHL sure as s**t don’t do it. Edit: turns out the NHL do have that, but players are now putting no trade clauses into contracts. And no I have no desire to mimic America. We don’t have the right to just send people across the country like that for...

Yeah nah it’s not 1910 and this isn’t the coal mines.

Tom Boyd got off lightly, but the fact that his request came hot on the heels of Griffen’s did ameliorate it.