Mid season draft pillaging.

[anchor man]

It seems the AFL are dead set on allowing the 18 clubs to pillage the second tier competitions throughout Australia.I would hope that the leaders of these competitions would stand up to the AFL and say no way.
It would relegate second tier comps to being a kicking dog for the AFL.These are competitons that have been running for almost as long as the AFL. Well longer if you count the AFL as only recently being formed.
The WAFL struggles as it is now with clubs battling to get crowds. This would decimate the integrity of the competition.
It is a total disreagrd from the AFL.It seems that they want to run all Australian rules competitions around Australia.
They forget that this is the breeding ground for so many future players for the AFL. These clubs disappear, where do the future stars of the AFL begin their journey?
A total grub act by the AFL.Total arrogance.

 

[emuboy]

It seems the AFL are dead set on allowing the 18 clubs to pillage the second tier competitions throughout Australia.I would hope that the leaders of these competitions would stand up to the AFL and say no way.
It would relegate second tier comps to being a kicking dog for the AFL.These are competitons that have been running for almost as long as the AFL. Well longer if you count the AFL as only recently being formed.
The WAFL struggles as it is now with clubs battling to get crowds. This would decimate the integrity of the competition.
It is a total disreagrd from the AFL.It seems that they want to run all Australian rules competitions around Australia.
They forget that this is the breeding ground for so many future players for the AFL. These clubs disappear, where do the future stars of the AFL begin their journey?
A total grub act by the AFL.Total arrogance.

This mid season draft idea is bad news for the WAFL, SANFL, VFL and NEAFL.

For example, say Claremont have a talented young forward whose skills in front of goal are a major reason the Tigers are on top of the WAFL ladder and heading towards the premiership. Then mid season he is drafted by the Fremantle Dockers and is playing for their WAFL affiliate Peel Thunder against the Tigers in the second half of the year as Claremont's premiership chances go south.

I think there should be something in place where players can swap clubs mid-season, but only listed senior AFL players from one team to another in certain circumstances. As a hypothetical, say the West Coast Eagles secure a Brisbane Lions player in an end of season trade and he moves west to join the Eagles, but it becomes obvious in the first half of the season that things aren't working out. He doesn't fit in with the Eagles squad and game plan, dislikes living in Perth and is homesick for Queensland, and languishes in the West Coast WAFL reserves team (assuming the Eagles get this up and running following the end of the East Perth alignment) playing badly. Mid-season, the Gold Coast Suns have a vacancy for such a player, so he transfers from the Eagles to the Suns and it works well for all parties - the player gets to go home, the Eagles don't have a player on their list who doesn't want to be there, and the Suns get the player they want. This is fair enough, but not state league clubs having players removed mid-season and either transferring interstate, or going to AFL reserve teams in the same competition.

 

[Freofalcon]

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