Time to allow clubs to trade away future draft picks

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#27
I think this has to happen, but on strict conditions that the pick can ONLY be the following year or the year after, and ONLY a first round pick. That said in this case, not sure Adelaide would budge with say pick 23 + pick 20 in 2013...that is still undervaluing him and there is the issue.
 

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I've always wondered what our game would be like if we had the future draft picks as tradeable. I see heaps of bigger trades, and more of them. For instance, Caddy would have been at Essendon this season, one would imagine. Would change the list management game completely.
 

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#29
What happens if you had done business with Carlton in 2001?

Draft picks are not handed out till after seasons end, you can't trade what you don't have.
It's the same in every sport with this system, you're essentially trading the rights to the pick.

it would have been interesting in our case as we probably would have already traded the pick for another Mansfield/O'Reilly type.. :oops:
 

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#30
If this was a rule we'd have Josh Caddy...but I digress.

There would have to be limitations on it like in the nba to stop teams selling the farm for the now, i think the nba don't allow first rounders to be traded in consecutive seasons or something to that effect.
 

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#33
instead of free agency the afl should have allowed the following years draft picks ( first 2 rounds ) to be traded.

the argument could have been made that if any player wanted to move and any team wanted them 2 first rounders and the rest of their picks are enough to trade for 99% of the afls players if the player is out of contract and requests a trade.
 

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#34
I think it will happen. AFL are scared that someone will challenge the draft and trading in the courts.

NBA have rule hat you can't trade three first round picks in a row.
 
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#35
As another poster previously mentioned, the NBA have the 'Ted Stepien' rule:

http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2012/06/ted-stepien-rule.html

Restricts clubs from trading all their future first-round picks (have to hold 1 first-round pick, per 2 years).

Not sure how I feel about this concept, whilst it would obviously help the Tippett trade get over the line, I kinda see the point that the non-trading now is just due club conservatism.

Rather than following the NBA, I prefer the evenness of the NFL. More players on the field (similar to AFL), but teams seem to turn around poor seasons to good ones a lot more quickly - which is something that is sadly lacking in teh AFL...
 

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Rather than following the NBA, I prefer the evenness of the NFL. More players on the field (similar to AFL), but teams seem to turn around poor seasons to good ones a lot more quickly - which is something that is sadly lacking in teh AFL...
probably because one position is just so important, and there is a realistic limit of how many good ones can be at a team at a given time.

The skins whole future changed with the drafting of one guy - a pick they traded to get and if I recall used future draft picks.
 
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