FB19
Premiership Player
- Feb 2, 2022
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You have to separate the dual purposes of academies. The academy system as a development pathway for football skills and knowledge, preparation for the rigours of AFL etc is critical and why so many young kids can make an impact early. As a drafting mechanism it’s all over the place. One not perfect solution but better than the AFLs bullshit would be to vary the discount based on where the bid comes so you have to pay more the higher up the player is selected. Or radically - add a points premium on a similar sliding scale so you pay more than the pick - your advantage is the existing relationship and priority access. Not perfect but better than the arbitrary pick 40 nonsense but the AFL don’t care they just pull new rules off a raffle wheel and laugh in piles of cash that we all enable.Apologies, the rules for NGA have changed and I assumed we could match under pick 40. Otherwise what is the point?