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Re: The Reids
My only argument there TD's is that it misses the point completely.
I think the entire specific number of games played, and bidding system should be completely scrapped.
If a kid's father [ or for that matter even grandfather] played for a club, he should be able to nominate that he wishes to go to that particular club. How would that make competition less even than the new free agency system does.
Perhaps an independent arbitrator such as the person in the role Shifter Sheehan currently occupies could set the valuation on where the player should lie in the draft order, IE what the club should pay in the draft for their F/S players [ first round, second round etc].
Every club has equal opportunity for it's players to sire footy skilled sons. So no club is disadvantaged over any other. In individual years a team might have a good year on qualifying sons, but over time it would all even out. One team might have an advantage in individual years, but the law of averages says it would invariably even out over time.
If a kid's father played for more than one club, then the one he played the most games for could have first pitch at the kid, but the decision should finally rest with the player as to where he preferred to go.
I think the AFL is just interfering with far to much of the game's traditions, and turning it into just another over governed corporate operation. Lets just leave a little romance in the game. After all, at the end of the day, that is what it is...a bloody game.
My only argument there TD's is that it misses the point completely.
I think the entire specific number of games played, and bidding system should be completely scrapped.
If a kid's father [ or for that matter even grandfather] played for a club, he should be able to nominate that he wishes to go to that particular club. How would that make competition less even than the new free agency system does.
Perhaps an independent arbitrator such as the person in the role Shifter Sheehan currently occupies could set the valuation on where the player should lie in the draft order, IE what the club should pay in the draft for their F/S players [ first round, second round etc].
Every club has equal opportunity for it's players to sire footy skilled sons. So no club is disadvantaged over any other. In individual years a team might have a good year on qualifying sons, but over time it would all even out. One team might have an advantage in individual years, but the law of averages says it would invariably even out over time.
If a kid's father played for more than one club, then the one he played the most games for could have first pitch at the kid, but the decision should finally rest with the player as to where he preferred to go.
I think the AFL is just interfering with far to much of the game's traditions, and turning it into just another over governed corporate operation. Lets just leave a little romance in the game. After all, at the end of the day, that is what it is...a bloody game.
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