News AFL overhauls Academy and FS bid matching, discussing draft lockout

[Pure_Ownage]

West Coast practically did. Twice.

And look at the circumstances as to why.
Does this happen regularly?
Im not sure why you are being so dense.

 

[danster168]

1) You never had Mac Andrew.

2) So you lost 3 players over 7 years, and think that somehow equates to the talent drain GC experienced every year for the similar period.

The year you lost Hogan, GC lost May (to the Dees), Lynch to the premiers, Jack Scrimshaw, Aaron Hall and Jarryd Lyons.

scrimshaw, Aaron hall and Lyons? LOL, elite! All whilst being gifted Mac Andrew from our Academy. Mac Andrew is worth more than those 3 players combined so still a massive net gain.

GC lost May and got Ben King with the draft pick. Totally fine.

Hogan and Jackson are bloody elite. McVee is an underrated jet. DOn't compare riff riff and compare them to Hogan and Jackson. Spare me.

 

[danster168]

You got them for free from the AFL. You were given advantages for being a very poor team. I like the draft, and equalisation. But let's not pretend you earn the advantages you are given in the draft when you're a struggling team. They're purely an equalisation measure - and it's certainly not a perfect equalisation measure.

Nah, because the cost is that you must finish low on the ladder to get them. Something which doesn't apply for the f/s rule or NGA. It's not a gift if you must qualify to get it with 23 weeks of trash football.

 

[danster168]

The draft is a system that gave you a heap of help from the AFL. You were given so many early picks that you eventually put a very good team together. Viney as a father son helped too.

Yep Viney is 1 father/son in 25 years. Significantly under the league average of father/sons. 4 more Viney's would put us up to league average and basically ensure more flags. That's why flags mean nothing anymore. If your a Pies, Dogs, Bris or Gold Coast fan, unfortunately any flag means very literal to anyone woh actually follows footy. Maybe the mainstream footy follower who also watches the Brownlow may get sucked into it but true footy nuts who look at footy holistically don't respect flags anymore. And the AFL made sure of that.

 

[Yoda_]

danster168 its hard to keep up but what are you exactly annoyed with here?


As has been mentioned, if you want something out of your NGA's, put something into it. Regarding father/sons, Melbourne have had a share of there own decent ones,

A super quick google search shows that Melbourne were the club who wanted the father/son rule as to gain access to Ron Barrassi

 

[briztoon]

scrimshaw, Aaron hall and Lyons? LOL, elite! All whilst being gifted Mac Andrew from our Academy. Mac Andrew is worth more than those 3 players combined so still a massive net gain.

GC lost May and got Ben King with the draft pick. Totally fine.

Hogan and Jackson are bloody elite. McVee is an underrated jet. DOn't compare riff riff and compare them to Hogan and Jackson. Spare me.

You got May from the Hogan pick, by your own logic that’s a break even, so stop your “look at me” whining.