Macca19
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So the possibility of losing two picks this year will not affect GWS at all. Am I reading this right Macca? It does seem typical of the AFL and their wet lettuce approach to punishment.
Lets say Carlton bid on Perryman with pick 5, which is matched, then they bid on Setterfield with the same pick and its matched again. It means they only have 1902 points to match over 3000 points worth of bids on just two players. So immediately they go into deficit in the first round next year. And thats just two players. Add in Sproule and Mutch and Cumming and Macreadie and Garthwaite and they either won't be able to match many of those bids, or they will churn through all of their picks next year in doing so.
So on face value it may not seem much of a penalty, but when you delve deeper, and so long as other clubs bid early on those two players, then they'll definitely be impacted.








