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Priority draft pick rules tightened
By Sam Lienert
November 17, 2005
AFL teams will be given less reward for underperforming, under a change to the priority draft pick system announced today.
Under the current system, any club that finishes a season with 20 premiership points (five wins) or less is awarded a priority selection before the opening round of the national draft.
The new policy, to come into place from next season, reduces the threshold to 16 premiership points, and the priority pick will be delayed until after each club has had a first-round selection.
Only if a club has two consecutive seasons in which it finishes with 16 points or less will it be granted a priority pick before the first round.
If the proposed system had been in place this year, no club would have received a priority pick in the national draft.
As it is, Collingwood, Hawthorn and Carlton will have an extra pick in the draft later this month.
The three clubs will be able to draft the six best youngsters in the country between them, with each to have a priority pick and a first-round pick before Essendon, which finished fourth-last, gets its first selection.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the change marked a step towards an "uncompromised" draft, adding that it would also scotch speculation that clubs out of finals calculations were happy to lose games late in the season.
"The AFL has never found any evidence of clubs deliberately losing games in order to secure priority picks," Demetriou said.
"However, I think you would all know there's been immense speculation over the past few years that this has or may have occurred.
"While there are reports of supporters wanting their teams to lose in order to secure priority picks, it seems appropriate to tighten the qualification criteria to reduce the incidence of this speculation."
The change would also decrease the problem of teams that consistently finished on the middle rungs of the ladder being significantly disadvantaged, compared with those that finished at the bottom, Demetriou said.
The AFL meanwhile released its financial results for the 2005 season, reporting record revenue of more than $201 million.
The league made a net surplus of $6.513 million, after $94 million was distributed to the 16 AFL clubs and $3.6 million was set aside for legal fees related to the case involving pay-TV company C7.
AFL chairman Ron Evans said the league had reduced its debt to less than $30 million, and it expected to be debt free by the end of 2006.
Thirteen of the 16 AFL clubs recorded a profit for 2005, with the clubs' aggregate profit $11 million, up from $10.1 million last year, Evans said.
AAP
so what we have got instead of fergus ?
pick bloody 4 ?
By Sam Lienert
November 17, 2005
AFL teams will be given less reward for underperforming, under a change to the priority draft pick system announced today.
Under the current system, any club that finishes a season with 20 premiership points (five wins) or less is awarded a priority selection before the opening round of the national draft.
The new policy, to come into place from next season, reduces the threshold to 16 premiership points, and the priority pick will be delayed until after each club has had a first-round selection.
Only if a club has two consecutive seasons in which it finishes with 16 points or less will it be granted a priority pick before the first round.
If the proposed system had been in place this year, no club would have received a priority pick in the national draft.
As it is, Collingwood, Hawthorn and Carlton will have an extra pick in the draft later this month.
The three clubs will be able to draft the six best youngsters in the country between them, with each to have a priority pick and a first-round pick before Essendon, which finished fourth-last, gets its first selection.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the change marked a step towards an "uncompromised" draft, adding that it would also scotch speculation that clubs out of finals calculations were happy to lose games late in the season.
"The AFL has never found any evidence of clubs deliberately losing games in order to secure priority picks," Demetriou said.
"However, I think you would all know there's been immense speculation over the past few years that this has or may have occurred.
"While there are reports of supporters wanting their teams to lose in order to secure priority picks, it seems appropriate to tighten the qualification criteria to reduce the incidence of this speculation."
The change would also decrease the problem of teams that consistently finished on the middle rungs of the ladder being significantly disadvantaged, compared with those that finished at the bottom, Demetriou said.
The AFL meanwhile released its financial results for the 2005 season, reporting record revenue of more than $201 million.
The league made a net surplus of $6.513 million, after $94 million was distributed to the 16 AFL clubs and $3.6 million was set aside for legal fees related to the case involving pay-TV company C7.
AFL chairman Ron Evans said the league had reduced its debt to less than $30 million, and it expected to be debt free by the end of 2006.
Thirteen of the 16 AFL clubs recorded a profit for 2005, with the clubs' aggregate profit $11 million, up from $10.1 million last year, Evans said.
AAP
so what we have got instead of fergus ?
pick bloody 4 ?
nk in the middle etc
