Nominating a club pre-draft

[donkeypunchd]

Read this today and thought it was pretty presumptuous:
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At the AFL draft next week 17-year-old Rockingham defender Aaron Naughton will be among those predicted to go in the top 10 picks.

But the talent, who is being compared to the Eagles’ All-Australian star Jeremy McGovern, has a message for Fremantle Dockers.

‘Let me go to Collingwood’.'

Clearly the guy's a talent but nominating a preferred club prior to the draft is seriously poor form and is indicative of both immaturity and attitude issues. While clearly too late for such a move in this draft, I think that a mechanism should be inserted in the rules to disqualify anyone who does such a thing from nomination for a period of two years. Thoughts?

https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/af...ood-over-fremantle-dockers-pick-ng-b88661570z

 

[ThaiTiger]

If he wants to go to Collingwood I would suggest that he's probably not the full quid anyway. Pass.

Agree, it's not the way it's done. The last one who tried something like this to my memory was Kavanagh from Essendon. His father warning clubs off if I remember correctly. He was delisted after 4 years.

 

[Occidental]

All he said was that he wanted to move to Melbourne & play for the biggest club in Australia.
Every kids dream.
A highly skilled and clearly intelligent & perceptive young man.

 

[davis_756]

Won't work hard enough and will wind up delisted, they aren't the types you want your club picking up

 

[Jaeger]

Sounds like he is dirty at Freo for being dropped for the WAFL GF.

 

[Wooljay]

Yeah don't rate that.

 

[dean33]

All he said was that he wanted to move to Melbourne & play for the biggest club in Australia.
Every kids dream.
A highly skilled and clearly intelligent & perceptive young man.

No apparently he said collingwood not richmond...

 

[RUNVS]

As far as I am concerned comments like that should result in him being ineligible for this years draft.

If I was the AFL I would force clubs to record every interview they have with a player, and if the AFL notices some players deliberately tanking some interviews, trying to dictate where they want to go, then they should be out as well. I have heard rumours on this forum of a few players who deliberately gave very poor interviews to non-Victorian clubs.

 

[Donakebab]

Collingwood should also be sanctioned because reasons.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Who cares

 

[Harris Specter]

Meh, the AFL won't do much because it's happening to a Victorian club, and they're benefiting from it.

The moment a kid states that he would prefer to go to a non-Victorian club, watch the media try and force the AFL into changing the rules for this type of draft tampering.

s**t flog of a human being this Naughton fellow, hope he gets passed over by every club.

 

[bradrowe#32]

I've watched him a few times at Peel and he could be a really good AFL player. Don't think we'll take him at pick six though.

 

[Deep]

I hope he's drafted by Fremantle or not at all for being a flog.

 

[sportsmaniac89]

Get stuffed! If Freo choose to draft Naughton, he'll bloody well get drafted by us and he can suck it up.

What a crock of s**t though that players can now dictate where they want to go......I hope the campaigner fails miserably as a footballer and it'll serve him right (unless he gets over himself and plays at Freo if we draft him)

 

[Golden_6]

Kid has clearly got a big ego. He’ll be put in his place pretty damn quickly at AFL level, and he should be grateful for whichever club picks him up no matter who it is.

 

[Power Raid]

I don't mind players or people being open about what they want in life

It's just a game for the fans but it's life for those who play

 

[Truckosaurus]

He scores a naught on personality.

 

[MightyTiger]

As far as I am concerned comments like that should result in him being ineligible for this years draft.

If I was the AFL I would force clubs to record every interview they have with a player, and if the AFL notices some players deliberately tanking some interviews, trying to dictate where they want to go, then they should be out as well. I have heard rumours on this forum of a few players who deliberately gave very poor interviews to non-Victorian clubs.

None compares to the Kieren Jack scandal.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/kieren-jack-draft-conspiracy-allegations.896602/

 

[Taylor]

He likes the idea of playing for the biggest club in the city of football, the club he supports as a kid. I don't see anything wrong with that.

The video doesn't show him saying "Let me go to Collingwood" that looks like a bit of journalism spin to get a ruckus out of it.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

So he's better off lying and saying he's happy to go anywhere then request a trade as an uncontrated player when he's about to hit his straps?

FTR i'll spew hard if we take him at 6, has disposal issues and we don't need anymore players with those flaws.

 

[Jakksynn]

Honestly if you rate the player then you have to take him and back your culture and system in to change their mind. Ollie Wines has said many times that when he was first drafted he was planning on leaving after his two years were up. Now he’s probably gonna be our next captain. I’m sure he’s not the first or the last player to go through something similar

 

[Luv_our_club]

Honestly, If I had the chance to be drafted I would have tried every trick in the book, including cheating, to get drafted by the Hawks.

And if I got drafted by another club, I would be thinking how to eventually get there.

After landing at another club, my opinion may change.

Not proud of this, but just the way I think of things.

Actually, I don't think cheating would be required these days. Just manipulation.

 

[Hellgood]

Jeez that article is a fair hatchet job / sensationalism.

He said his preference was for the club he supports (apparently pretty passionately) to pick him.

Cue shock and horror.

 

[Jugada]

Jesus people love making a mountain out of a molehill. Kid is asked where he would like to play. Says he would like to play for big Melbourne club he supported.

Some how that results in drop kicks wanting him banned from the draft, ripping into his work ethic, huge ego, s**t bloke all round...

Jeeeeeeesus Some people need to pull their head in

 

[irish]

Any kid that pulls this type of draft tampering needs to be excluded from the draft , that also includes any others mentioned in this forum. This crap has to stop before the competition is compromised

Be funny too see the pies over look him