TonyK
CibbuanoGold Coast proposes radical draft plan
June 17th 2008 23:48
THE Gold Coast consortium has asked the AFL for 20 of the first 24 draft picks in the draft the year before it enters the competition.
At a meeting with the AFL's subcommittee of club and league officials last Friday, former Brisbane Lions chairman Graeme Downie, Southport Sharks chairman Alan McKenzie and AFL Queensland chief executive Richard Griffiths proposed that the new club be given picks 1-5 and 10-24 in the 2010 national draft, with the bottom four teams receiving picks 6,7, 8 and 9 in the normal reverse order.
If the AFL approved the proposal, the bottom team would have pick 6, the 15th team pick 7, the 14th team pick 8 and the 13th team pick 9.
The team that finished 12th on the ladder would not participate in the draft until pick 25.
The AFL had previoulsy proposed that the Gold Coast be given picks 1-5, 14, 15, 24 and 41, plus access to the best 17-year-olds in 2009, and exclusive rights to the best young talent in the Northern Territory and Queensland.
The Gold Coast consortium also suggested that it should be compulsory to trade 10 of those 20 early draft picks for players from other clubs.
Downie said last night he believed it was a better system than forcing clubs to give up players.
"This way it's done on a voluntary basis, the market determines what … trade choice we give up for a player etcetera."
At a meeting with the AFL's subcommittee of club and league officials last Friday, former Brisbane Lions chairman Graeme Downie, Southport Sharks chairman Alan McKenzie and AFL Queensland chief executive Richard Griffiths proposed that the new club be given picks 1-5 and 10-24 in the 2010 national draft, with the bottom four teams receiving picks 6,7, 8 and 9 in the normal reverse order.
If the AFL approved the proposal, the bottom team would have pick 6, the 15th team pick 7, the 14th team pick 8 and the 13th team pick 9.
The team that finished 12th on the ladder would not participate in the draft until pick 25.
The AFL had previoulsy proposed that the Gold Coast be given picks 1-5, 14, 15, 24 and 41, plus access to the best 17-year-olds in 2009, and exclusive rights to the best young talent in the Northern Territory and Queensland.
The Gold Coast consortium also suggested that it should be compulsory to trade 10 of those 20 early draft picks for players from other clubs.
Downie said last night he believed it was a better system than forcing clubs to give up players.
"This way it's done on a voluntary basis, the market determines what … trade choice we give up for a player etcetera."
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