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CibbuanoDees: limit Gold Coast to over 25's
May 15th 2008 23:00
MELBOURNE and Carlton have expressed their concern over the concessions set to to be granted to the new Gold Coast team which will enter the competition in 2011.
Carlton has suggested the Gold Coast be compelled to trade a third of the nine first- and second-round draft picks the AFL has proposed it receive in 2010.
The Blues have said the new club would be guaranteed a premiership within five years under the first proposed recruiting rules, which included the pick of Queensland and the Northern Territory, the nine early draft choices, the pick of elite 17-year-olds in 2009 (who would be ineligible for the 2009 draft, due to the raising of the draft age) and the 12 uncontracted players (10 "free agents", plus picks one and two in the pre-season draft).
While the Demons have told the AFL that the new club, which is likely to be given the right to sign 12 uncontracted players, should be limited to signing only uncontracted players who are 25 and over.
Melbourne football operations manager Chris Connolly said the combination of picks 1-5, 14, 15, 24 and 41 in the 2010 national draft, plus the best 17-year-olds in 2009 — and young uncontracted players would create a super team.
"Within five years, they'll be a super team," he said of the current proposal, which the AFL has indicated is not set in stone," Connolly said.
Under the Melbourne proposal the Gold Coast club would be allowed to sign St Kilda captain and Queenslander Nick Riewoldt, who is 25 now, but would be barred from snaring
Hawthorn superstar Lance Franklin, who would be 23 in 2010.
Both Franklin and Riewoldt's contracts expire at the end of 2010, when the Gold Coast team will have its first intake of out-of-contract players from other clubs.
Clubs have admitted that the concessions must be generous to avoid the disaster of "another Brisbane Bears" but also said the officials who form the new club will place a higher premium on early draft picks than recycled players, depriving clubs of trading opportunities and locking up much of the talent.
Carlton has suggested the Gold Coast be compelled to trade a third of the nine first- and second-round draft picks the AFL has proposed it receive in 2010.
The Blues have said the new club would be guaranteed a premiership within five years under the first proposed recruiting rules, which included the pick of Queensland and the Northern Territory, the nine early draft choices, the pick of elite 17-year-olds in 2009 (who would be ineligible for the 2009 draft, due to the raising of the draft age) and the 12 uncontracted players (10 "free agents", plus picks one and two in the pre-season draft).
While the Demons have told the AFL that the new club, which is likely to be given the right to sign 12 uncontracted players, should be limited to signing only uncontracted players who are 25 and over.
Melbourne football operations manager Chris Connolly said the combination of picks 1-5, 14, 15, 24 and 41 in the 2010 national draft, plus the best 17-year-olds in 2009 — and young uncontracted players would create a super team.
"Within five years, they'll be a super team," he said of the current proposal, which the AFL has indicated is not set in stone," Connolly said.
Under the Melbourne proposal the Gold Coast club would be allowed to sign St Kilda captain and Queenslander Nick Riewoldt, who is 25 now, but would be barred from snaring
Hawthorn superstar Lance Franklin, who would be 23 in 2010.
Both Franklin and Riewoldt's contracts expire at the end of 2010, when the Gold Coast team will have its first intake of out-of-contract players from other clubs.
Clubs have admitted that the concessions must be generous to avoid the disaster of "another Brisbane Bears" but also said the officials who form the new club will place a higher premium on early draft picks than recycled players, depriving clubs of trading opportunities and locking up much of the talent.
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