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This is why I think the whole off-season trading/drafting period is flawed and needs a revamp.If we do offer/have offered him a one year deal, I suspect it's the kind of lowball one year deal that tells him we'd rather he found another home, but tells any other interested clubs that we're not delisting him so they can have him for free.
- Clubs should be assigned draft points based on ladder positions leading into the trade period instead of a draft order.
- Any uncontracted player should be able to sign for whichever club they choose. Based on the average of their most recent contract and their new contract, a certain number of points should be deducted from the club that the player goes to and awarded to the club they came from. No more haggling required.
- If a club isn't willing to forfeit any draft points to sign a player, that player should go into the draft.
- At the end of the trade period, the number of points each club has determines the draft order.
- As opposed to players entering the draft for the first time, players with AFL experience can nominate higher salary terms, with the maximum being the average AFL wage of players with their number of years of experience from the previous season.
- Players drafted in the first round get a three-year deal, 2nd and 3rd rounds get a two year deal, and from 4th rounds onwards, a minimum of one year. (There is no rookie draft.)
- If the player is undrafted at that point they can be signed for free by a club with open list positions.
This would stop clubs from losing decent uncontracted players for virtually nothing if another club genuinely wants that player.
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