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He's spot on. NGA and Father son are mickey mouse rules for a non serious competition. Its a kin to permitting a few teams to use steroids.
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Didn't we finish 17th the year we got Naicos, I realise we'd traded our pick away to GWS but just in terms of being down the bottom it wasn't that much of a stretch for the second worst team to end up with a top 5 draft player.
And great as he's become, at the time he was considered behind Darcy and Horne-Francis by most recruiters. It's only with hindsight - us winning a premiership and Naicos developing to be even better than expected - that people call this out as being unfair.
Collingwood's had plenty of misses with fs picks too, but they're less interesting to talk about.
Making excuses to feed the fan base.
How come Hawthorn is so fricken good all the time?
The amount of non St Kilda supporters commenting and instead of discussing the issue are targeting the saints or Bassat are hilarious and highlights the issues even further.
He is not saying to get rid of father sons or academies.
He is saying pay a fair cost for the access.
Ashcroft is undoubtedly the best player in this draft. What would it cost Brisbane for a top 5 pick? Bailey? Would you still want him then?
Naicos for the pies. It would have cost them someone integral to their 23’ flag side.
The suns with 4 first round picks the other year. There is no way they would have landed equivalent values to bring them all in.
It’s provides equality all the way down the ladder.
Of course not - but to suggest St Kilda's lack of success is due to their lack of academy or father sons is just a nonsense. You can win the premiership without them. Richmond and Hawthorn have won 6 of the last 12 premierships and neither (from memory) had a massive number of father son or academy players on their list.
Ross Lyon is saying that the AFL would be doing the right thing if the draft was compromised heavily due to Josh Battle leaving, but then Bassat is talking about the inequalities in the draft, I just don't think you can demand that a flawed system benefit you in one area, whilst demanding change in another.
Saints got Owens for cheap. He was a gun junior.
Did you not see the players you landed last year with junk picks?
Does he also have a problem with Stkilda being gifted top end draft picks year after year after year for being shit? Or is that the right kind of unfairness?
Apart from GWS and GC, every other team has access to F/S, so I am unsure what Bassat is complaining about.
Here's the number of 100 gamers each club has who were born between 1965 and 1980 (roughly the age of current father-son fathers):
35: Melbourne
34: Essendon
33: Brisbane
32: West Coast
31:
30: Collingwood
29: Hawthorn, North Melbourne
28: Geelong
27: Adelaide
26: Carlton, Western Bulldogs
25: Sydney
24: Richmond
23: St Kilda
22:
21: Port Adelaide
20:
19:
18:
17:
16:
15:
14: Fremantle
Doesn't seem super even that Melbourne have 35 tickets in the lottery while the Saints have 23 (not to mention Freo having 14). That just exposes you more to the random vagaries of reproduction. Lockett, Loewe, Burke had daughters, for instance.
It's fundamentally never going to be even. If we care about equalisation then we can't have it. If you don't care about equalisation, that's fine, just say that.
Does he also have a problem with Stkilda being gifted top end draft picks year after year after year for being shit? Or is that the right kind of unfairness?
Remove FA compo
Reckon he would shut up right quick
I think the academies outside NSW and Qld clubs should go, personally. But pretending Owens was a "gun" junior is only accurate if you buy the shit from the AFL media where everyone is a star. He was around top 30 quality and that's about where he ended up.
Isn't that the rule though for all clubs?
And that's why I'm saying that way of looking at it is wrong because there is no way to manipulate the conditions that exist to create F/S selections*. Players just play their careers > reach 100 games for a club > have kids at some point > hopefully get out 1-2 males > try and get them to be interested in footy > get them to a point where they're playing a high enough level of footy > then, and only then after all that does F/S even come into play.Semantically, fairness can refer either to the process or the outcome. Clearly I was talking about the outcome.
But also, because of historical differences in the number of 100 gamers (which I posted earlier), the process is also biased in particular ways which are not perfectly fair.
That’s a convenient way of trying to differentiate what really is just an allowance of a club to draft a player before another would otherwise be able to.One is an equalising measure (free agency compensation), the other is an unequalising measure (father-son). Not too hard to understand.
And Windhager who looks promisingWe've had some shite F&S for us, JPK the best but made his career elsewhere. Langford has a purple patch at the right time but nothing long term.
Dear looks like being the best of the lot as an 18 year old already.
We've also been shafted out of NGA this year. Should have had 2x probable first round selections this year in Moraes and Tauru but for whatever reason they've been stripped of NGA eligibility.
Saints got Owens for cheap. He was a gun junior.
Its one of those concession to nostalgia and the old days of club loyalty.That speech was a bit incoherent.
But I agree that the father son rule is a joke. I have still never heard a good argument for it to exist.
I saw plenty of draft watchers (both on Bigfooty and in the media) having him in the 10-20 mark on their phantoms throughout the year, in fact I remember a few Saints posters worried that if he went first round they wouldn't be able to match. A lot of academy guys slip a little bit further down the rankings ala Gulden.
Mitch Owens Draft Profile
central.rookieme.com
"One of a couple of St Kilda Next Generation Academy (NGA) prospects pushing for top 30 contention is Mitch Owens, a rising talent out of the Sandringham Dragons."
But yeah, you're right they often slip a bit because they're not open access. Another reason the current system doesn't work.