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Hopefully this is the afl realising that the best way to end the draft being a farce is just give every club an academy and access to any junior they can develop (at a fair market value)
Just need to fix the points curve and make teams pay a premium for matching talent
Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
Just remove academies altogether. Make the draft as open and uncompromised as it used to be.
We had 5 non-VIC premiers in the 2000s including 3 all interstate grand finals.
AFL can still run the academies and fund them? Don’t they sort of all ready do with the equalised distribution?The issue with removing academies is the talent pool and development pathways become very incestious.
Draft and Academies are ideologically opposed systems.
The academy system encourages clubs to invest more in the growth of the game and grassroots talent development which helps keep the game healthy
Vs Draft which is just teams fighting over a limited largely Victorian based development infrastructure.
This system is better for all as it will help grow the game
The issue with removing academies is the talent pool and development pathways become very incestious.
Draft and Academies are ideologically opposed systems.
The academy system encourages clubs to invest more in the growth of the game and grassroots talent development which helps keep the game healthy
Vs Draft which is just teams fighting over a limited largely Victorian based development infrastructure.
This system is better for all as it will help grow the game
Why is it up to the clubs to invest into grassroots talent?
In an ideal world the AFL should be pumping money into grassroots footy (they aren't). The solution is simple. Unfortunately the custodians of our game have continuously shown they are incompetent.
Academies for all creates a system of haves and have nots. It will be the beginning of an EPL like league of clubs with financial dominance lording over the smaller clubs.
My preference was always for top 10 to be off limits or some kind of scaling access on where you finish but as long as the points system is drastically tightened and clubs have to pay fair value for players, it shouldnt matter.Hahahahahaha
anyone who thinks this is a good idea, I hope you aren’t at the bottom when Tassie joins. First round will go to pick 45!!!
Why is it up to the clubs to invest into grassroots talent?
In an ideal world the AFL should be pumping money into grassroots footy (they aren't). The solution is simple. Unfortunately the custodians of our game have continuously shown they are incompetent.
Academies for all creates a system of haves and have nots. It will be the beginning of an EPL like league of clubs with financial dominance lording over the smaller clubs.
Get stuffed. Listen to this, dogs get kissed with Ugle-Hagan and Collingwood with Quaynor so the AFL change the rules before the dees can get their academy player in Mac Andrew only for the afl to change the rules back again after melbourne has already missed out. What a pathetic league.How convenient. Just in time for a big Victorian team to benefit.
Its complex remember.Get stuffed. Listen to this, dogs get kissed with Ugle-Hagan and Collingwood with Quaynor so the AFL change the rules before the dees can get their academy player in Mac Andrew only for the afl to change the rules back again after melbourne has already missed out. What a pathetic league.
what are you banging on about. I'm pointing out how the dees have been crucified by the afl's rule changes. that's just a fact. an absolute joke.Its complex remember.
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Who missed out in those years (genuine Q).
Mac Andrew to Melbourne
Cam MacKenzie to Saints?
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Sanders pls.....
except he wasntWhat?
He was in the North NGA academy since he was 12.
except he wasnt
well thisRight… on what basis?
Certainly looks like his name 6 years ago.
Next Generation Academy – Northern Tasmania | AFL Tasmania
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Eddie McGuire maybe?who can I point my anger at? Is this another Kane job?
what are you banging on about. I'm pointing out how the dees have been crucified by the afl's rule changes. that's just a fact. an absolute joke.
well this
saying he was in the NGA from 12 is like saying every Sandy Dragon that trains with StKilda is a part of our NGA.
The only thing that counts is that the AFl acknowledges it and that didn't happen until a month before the draft.
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Top prospect joins North's Academy, AFL mulls priority access
Ryley Sanders has been added to North Melbourne's Academy listwww.afl.com.au