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CibbuanoDraft plan rattles Lions
May 13th 2008 00:14
The AFL's planned draft concessions for the Gold Coast Football Club are too generous according to the Brisbane Lions and the club will fight for an exclusive access zone to protect their recruiting ground.
The Lions have a week to respond to the AFL's Gold Coast plan, which will give the new club access to 15 Queensland teenagers at the end of 2008 and 2009 and a draft-day spree in 2010, when the new club will get eight picks in the first 24, including the top five.
Lions chairman Tony Kelly said the proposal was unacceptable.
"The Lions' view is that is too beneficial," he said.
The proposed draft concessions will have massive appeal to former Brisbane Lions captain and coach-in-waiting Michael Voss, who meets with Gold Coast tomorrow.
The draft proposal, which will not be ratified until July will hurt the Lions, who have a strong track record of converting rookie-listed Queenslanders into AFL regulars.
Of Brisbane's current side, Josh Drummond, Cheynee Stiller, Joel MacDonald and Scott Harding are all Queenslanders who were developed off the rookie list.
Kelly admitted the Gold Coast side needed to start somehow, but said some balance needed to be found.
"What we are saying is, we have got to be reasonable. This Gold Coast side has got to start
somehow and it has to start with a core of local talent," Kelly said.
"But don't completely deprive us of local talent over the next two years, give us a zone or allow us to introduce a scholarship system or something.
"It is really that concept where all clubs are going to be affected, no one club should be affected more than another. With the proposed access to 15 Queenslanders, the one club that does get affected more is us."
The Lions have a week to respond to the AFL's Gold Coast plan, which will give the new club access to 15 Queensland teenagers at the end of 2008 and 2009 and a draft-day spree in 2010, when the new club will get eight picks in the first 24, including the top five.
Lions chairman Tony Kelly said the proposal was unacceptable.
"The Lions' view is that is too beneficial," he said.
The proposed draft concessions will have massive appeal to former Brisbane Lions captain and coach-in-waiting Michael Voss, who meets with Gold Coast tomorrow.
The draft proposal, which will not be ratified until July will hurt the Lions, who have a strong track record of converting rookie-listed Queenslanders into AFL regulars.
Of Brisbane's current side, Josh Drummond, Cheynee Stiller, Joel MacDonald and Scott Harding are all Queenslanders who were developed off the rookie list.
Kelly admitted the Gold Coast side needed to start somehow, but said some balance needed to be found.
"What we are saying is, we have got to be reasonable. This Gold Coast side has got to start
somehow and it has to start with a core of local talent," Kelly said.
"But don't completely deprive us of local talent over the next two years, give us a zone or allow us to introduce a scholarship system or something.
"It is really that concept where all clubs are going to be affected, no one club should be affected more than another. With the proposed access to 15 Queenslanders, the one club that does get affected more is us."
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