
- May 5, 2016
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Umm, the fact that FA allows 2 clubs in their infancy to be stripped of its talent right at the point where a list they helped put together, and many said would dominate the landscape, matured, might suggest that FA is detrimental to the 'expansion' you feel was way more important than gifting the Dogs the 16 flag at Sydneys expense.
Theres a lot more grey in AFL than the black and white you like to suggest.
Right. So those squads they drafted in 2010-14/5, that they could add FAs to any time right through to 2018 but other clubs couldn’t touch via FA through to that point unless they got a trade - they were in no position to strengthen them by adding some experienced free agents.
Because of Tom Lynch, Adam Tomlinson and Aiden Corr, the only 3 free agents to move from the expansion clubs, two of whom left the Giants AFTER they’d made a grand final, free agency is further proof that the AFL has set them up to fail in order to prop up the Victorian clubs.