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Not even your nga. It’s a priority pick by any other nameThere won’t be a bid for sanders he will be prelisted like the suns did with Alex Davies as part of their assistance a few years ago
This is your 2nd terrible season. We got crappy assistance at the end of our 3rd terrible season.
You may get a couple of late picks that you must trade at the end of next year if you have another shocking year.
You should be hoping we get something good this year which will open the door for the Eagles at the end of 2025 if you’re still woeful.
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying because Nick Daicos was never going anywhere but Collingwood if he was good enough to play AFL, from the moment he was conceived.Huh?
We are all talking about how the integrity of access to talent is compromised and how it’s unfair that teams can get elite talents like Daicos by using late second round and third round picks and your solution is……
Let them list him for free?
Great contribution.
So get a free father son as well as your original draft pick?Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying because Nick Daicos was never going anywhere but Collingwood if he was good enough to play AFL, from the moment he was conceived.
This whole idea that father sons compromise the draft is a charade. We know from the moment they start showing any talent that they’re aligned to a specific club.
They shouldn’t even be in the draft, and if they are they should only be added to list like Gary Jnr and Tom Hawkins were, late, with token picks.
Then we’d be able to move passed this charade that any team had “missed out on Nick Daicos”.
Call it the Keiran Jack right of passage.So get a free father son as well as your original draft pick?
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You should follow epl soccer it’s more your thing I reckon.Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying because Nick Daicos was never going anywhere but Collingwood if he was good enough to play AFL, from the moment he was conceived.
This whole idea that father sons compromise the draft is a charade. We know from the moment they start showing any talent that they’re aligned to a specific club.
They shouldn’t even be in the draft, and if they are they should only be added to list like Gary Jnr and Tom Hawkins were, late, with token picks.
Then we’d be able to move passed this charade that any team had “missed out on Nick Daicos”.
Ahhhh yes. Gary Jack the famed AFL player making his son eligible for a Father Son selection in the AFL draft.....Call it the Keiran Jack right of passage.
Hopefully north win this week.And by shafted, you mean treated the same as any non-academy based football club? (The academies are another irk of mine but that's another discussion).
I seriously can't fathom how there could have been any expectation for a significant win-loss improvement from last year and for this expectation to be used to justify a top 10 talent in Sanders being walked through the door and the NGA rules being made obsolete. Wardlaw and Sheezel have both demonstrated an ability to play AFL at a high level, along with a number of other recent draftees on your list.
There needs to be a degree of accountability when it comes to list management decisions - have some pride and have the North Melbourne Football Club build the playing list for the North Melbourne Football Club (refer to Adelaide's list build over recent years), don't just rattle the tin outside AFL house and say it's still not enough. The package you received last year to assist with trading seemed equitable and acted as a vehicle to assist more established AFL talent through the door, however to just remove a top 10 talent from the draft pool because there hasn't been an instant turnaround is ludicrous.
The following philosophy needs to be adopted when looking at any tampering with the first round of the draft, including a reassessment of the Northern Academies - The assistance package has been designed to make North Melbourne more competitive sooner whilst also not penalising other clubs' draft positions, with the League keen to protect the integrity of this year's draft order.
Just arrived on Swans list one day. No draft, nothing.Ahhhh yes. Gary Jack the famed AFL player making his son eligible for a Father Son selection in the AFL draft.....
Yeah I saw it. I still think there is a lot of water to go under the bridge. If they do get sander I doubt they get first round compo for McKay.Briefly saw an article from herald sun (blocked) on my fb about clubs complaining to the AFL about North trying to add Sanders as NGA.
When I went back on my feed to find it, it mysteriously vanished.
Anyone see this article and can share?
Father son from the NRL?Call it the Keiran Jack right of passage.
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying because Nick Daicos was never going anywhere but Collingwood if he was good enough to play AFL, from the moment he was conceived.
This whole idea that father sons compromise the draft is a charade. We know from the moment they start showing any talent that they’re aligned to a specific club.
They shouldn’t even be in the draft, and if they are they should only be added to list like Gary Jnr and Tom Hawkins were, late, with token picks.
Then we’d be able to move passed this charade that any team had “missed out on Nick Daicos”.
When was the last time that happened to you?Northern academies will stay for us long as first round draft picks nominate homesickness as to why they won’t move interstate.
AFL will contrive a result that allows North to be assisted after years of own goals.
Northern academies will stay for us long as first round draft picks nominate homesickness as to why they won’t move interstate.
AFL will contrive a result that allows North to be assisted after years of own goals.
Danihers deal was dodgy AF,soon as he signed they tore up the deal and changed it because what he was getting offered wouldnt have give Essendon adequate compo and they wouldve matched the deal.so corrupt!All the players from other clubs you mentioned were payed Band 1 compensation pick type money.
Daniher got $850k per year.
Williams $800k per year.
Lynch was $1m, or close enough to, per year.
Now if Essendon offer McKay $800k a year, shouldn't hear a peep out of anybody, because most trade and draft fans understand that is the ball park figure for Band 1 compensation. But if the AFL magic up band 1 compo for a $650k a year contract, then people are going to call b.s.
As for North potentially receiving permission to prelist Sanders. The AFL should flat out refuse such a request, as North's current predicament is self inflicted, and should not be compared to the situation Gold Coast found itself in back in 2018.
Yeah I saw it. I still think there is a lot of water to go under the bridge. If they do get sander I doubt they get first round compo for McKay.
Melbourne have had plenty of handouts… Tigers were given a priority pick back in 2004.Still amazes me that clubs get rewarded for s**t decsions,its not the other 17 clubs fault that your recruiters cant spot talent and continually pick players that are either no good or hire development coaches that are any good at their jobs. paying Polec 750k a year is just one example. Do what richmond and melbourne have done draft elite kids with top picks and then sign free agents instead of relying on handouts
Still amazes me that clubs get rewarded for s**t decsions,its not the other 17 clubs fault that your recruiters cant spot talent and continually pick players that are either no good or hire development coaches that are any good at their jobs. paying Polec 750k a year is just one example. Do what richmond and melbourne have done draft elite kids with top picks and then sign free agents instead of relying on handouts
We've had 1 first round academy kid in 10 years.Scrap the academy system. It corrupt that 4 team never really have to rebuild and can add first round after first round. Equalisation doesn’t work it the system isn’t equal