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It happens in the NBA and in all honesty I think its the best thing they do. We have followed them with our own form of free agency. Why not follow them on this notion? It helps get so many more trades done and it helps make them fair too.
Quite simply teams can trade away picks with conditions attached to them. For example Sydney could give Adelaide pick 22 + a first rounder in 2013 providing its not within the top 15 picks (if its below that then it rolls onto the next season/until Sydney have a first rounder outside of 15).
This would allow clubs in premiership mode to improve and it would allow clubs in rebuild mode to fastrack this process with even more picks. Collingwood are stuck with a litany of top 25 picks. If they had the chance im sure they would have taken a pick off Eagles from next years draft (1st rounder thats not under 15) and allowed themselves to bank one of the top 25 picks they have atm for another time
The current trade style is not only archaic, it is very one sided and it is more about one club screwing another then both improving. This change would go a long long LOOOONG way into changing this.
Quite simply teams can trade away picks with conditions attached to them. For example Sydney could give Adelaide pick 22 + a first rounder in 2013 providing its not within the top 15 picks (if its below that then it rolls onto the next season/until Sydney have a first rounder outside of 15).
This would allow clubs in premiership mode to improve and it would allow clubs in rebuild mode to fastrack this process with even more picks. Collingwood are stuck with a litany of top 25 picks. If they had the chance im sure they would have taken a pick off Eagles from next years draft (1st rounder thats not under 15) and allowed themselves to bank one of the top 25 picks they have atm for another time
The current trade style is not only archaic, it is very one sided and it is more about one club screwing another then both improving. This change would go a long long LOOOONG way into changing this.
