Opinion Top 4 sides should not be able to access free agents.

[nahnah]

Disagree. Also, the club losing the player shouldn't get given compensation that negatively impacts 16 clubs not involved imo.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

The Op wants “Go where I think you should go Agency”.

Sounds great.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Disagree. Also, the club losing the player shouldn't get given compensation that negatively impacts 16 clubs not involved imo.

Compensation is rubbish, and we all know it’s flawed.

 

[Baird]

Awful idea. Melbourne finished top 4 in 2018. Then they finished 17th in 2019.

 

[skipper kelly]

Only the bottom 4 from this year should be able to participate in free agency.

 

[nahnah]

Compensation is rubbish, and we all know it’s flawed.

If there was no compensation then the Suns would have forced a trade, the compensation being better than what Richmond could offer is where the problem lies not a player wanting out of a team that hasn't improved in his 7 years at the club.

 

[threesixpio]

Only the bottom 4 from this year should be able to participate in free agency.

Bottom four prison forever for champions = slavery

 

[quotemokc]

Compensation is rubbish, and we all know it’s flawed.

Compensation works, but the premise of it comes from American sports leagues where all teams gain and lose lots of free agents every year.

The first round of the draft should never be impacted by compensation though, GC got 8 years out of Lynch, they don't deserve a first round pick after having him for such a long time.

 

[Heisenberg_]

Only the bottom 4 from this year should be able to participate in free agency.

Scrap it altogether theb

 

[skipper kelly]

Scrap it altogether theb

Just for this year would be fine. An equalisation measure to help out the bottom 4 teams.

 

[Great8]

No issue at all with Lynch going there. If they have the cap space who cares. In a perfect world I’d rather go down the NRL path but that’s a different debate

 

[Senor M]

In the Tom Lynch situation it's important to look back to the end of 2016 when Richmond finished 13th with an 8-14 record. It was at that point Richmond started planning to bring Tom Lynch into the club-- 2 whole years before he was recruited as a Free Agent.

You can't block a club from picking up a free agent because they became a better club during that time frame. Free Agency decisions aren't just made in October, they are made months and in some cases (Lynch, Franklin, etc.) years in advance.

 

[demondavey]

It's not free agency if you're restricting which teams they move to.

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[demondavey]

Well if Chris Scott could coach better and organise his best players to play their most influential positions, as well as selecting the best team, Tom Lynch would probably not have gotten Richmond over the line.

Oh and Hawkins belting someone didn’t help either.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Well if Chris Scott could coach better and organise his best players to play their most influential positions, as well as selecting the best team, Tom Lynch would probably not have gotten Richmond over the line.

Oh and Hawkins belting someone didn’t help either.

Geelong got Ablett and Dangerfield though.

Between the 'go home factor' and the 'big game' factor - the bottom handful of clubs really are ****ed.

 

[demondavey]

Geelong got Ablett and Dangerfield though.

Between the 'go home factor' and the 'big game' factor - the bottom handful of clubs really are f’ed.

Brisbane has shown you can drag yourself out. We did in 2018. Unfortunately you won’t recruit gun players when you’re awful, you have to work out of the hole a bit first.

 

[Marcel Proust]

I don’t know about you guys but watching Tom Lynch absolute tear apart a prelim for Richmond doesn’t exactly fill me with good feelings. He abandoned a side on the bottom of the ladder to go to a side coming off winning a premiership and then making a prelim.

Now it’s absolutely nothing against him or against Richmond per se, it’s just how I feel about it. I don’t think in the interests of running a fair and even competition we can have top 4 sides acquiring superstar players from bottom sides for almost nothing. That’s how good sides stay good and bad sides get worse.

How do you feel about it? Do you like the theatre of it? Or are you with me here?

 

[Shaneprice97]

Had he signed with Collingwood i would have had no issues.

But he didn’t, so its an outrage!!!

 

[Marcel Proust]

He's taking up a million dollars of their salary cap, so he doesn't come for nothing at all.

700k

Had he signed with Collingwood i would have had no issues.

But he didn’t, so its an outrage!!!

Collingwood and Hawthorn offered him a lot more money

 

[Kwality]

Yep, the AFL has a 'system' to determine what the club losing the player gets, so the AFL should be telling the receiving club to pony up that pick (or equivalent points) to get that player.

The AFL have a very arbitrary view of whats fair or reasonable, a transparent set of rules would be a must.

 

[Orange Agent]

Compo should come from the club receiving the player. Not that I agree with formula being used but whatever the compo pick is worth in draft points, take that from the club receiving the player. It shouldn't be a free trade in.

 

[Marcel Proust]

Compo should come from the club receiving the player. Not that I agree with formula being used but whatever the compo pick is worth in draft points, take that from the club receiving the player. It shouldn't be a free trade in.

but then that's trading, not FA.

 

[Coaster2012]

I agree

 

[nineteen eighty]

Wait for the melt down after this upcoming trade period. Very strong talk (yet to come out) that another of the Suns guns going to the Tiges. Should he be allowed to come? Should everything be aimed at equalization as opposed to excellence? Don't we have enough equalization rules? Now we're talking about restricting where a free agent can go. The draft and salary cap is enough.

 

[Marcel Proust]

Wait for the melt down after this upcoming trade period. Very strong talk (yet to come out) that another of the Suns guns going to the Tiges. Should he be allowed to come? Should everything be aimed at equalization as opposed to excellence? Don't we have enough equalization rules? Now we're talking about restricting where a free agent can go. The draft and salary cap is enough.

Pick 19 for Ellis too thanks Gill