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WESTERN Bulldogs president Peter Gordon has called for the abolition of priority draft picks and the return to a salary cap with no extra allowances or cost of living dispensation.
Gordon said he had no issue with Melbourne being handed as much as $3 million by the AFL as part of a bail-out package.
But the request for a national draft priority pick has angered him, and he wants clubs given an even chance after the priority selections handed to the expansion clubs.
"The sooner we have an unencumbered draft system without priority picks of any kind, the better off we will be in the long term," Gordon told the Herald Sun.
"My view is the same applies to the salary cap. If we all exist in an environment where the salary cap is even, and everyone has a guaranteed ability to meet it, you will see more exciting seasons.
"As each team generates good players they will struggle to keep them in the salary cap and those who have fallen by the wayside a little will have more ability and space in their cap to compete.
"I look forward to the Bulldogs' prospects in a scenario with an even draft and even salary cap, because it will be the first time, perhaps ever, we have had a serious chance to compete."
Gordon said he had two objections to extra picks for the Demons: they had wasted them in the past, and they already enjoyed a handful of elite youngsters on their list.
s"If you look at the first-round and top-20 picks Melbourne have had in the last seven or eight years, it is up there amongst the high echelons and it doesn't appear to have been a panacea for the problems they have had," he said.
"And I have to say it bodes well for the future that if you look at what their list will look like in 2015 and 2016 and further there will be quite a few clubs which would like to know they have had the likes of Jack Viney and Jesse Hogan safely ensconced in their list."
Carlton president Stephen Kernahan told the Sunday Herald Sun that priority picks should be consigned to history.
Former Melbourne coach Neil Balme, now the Cats football manager, said yesterday he did not think giving Melbourne another priority pick was the answer.
"If you look at the number of picks they had over the last few years, you probably think maybe that's not their problem," he said.
"Maybe there are other things which are their problem. Clearly more picks will help them get off the bottom, but I don't think that's the answer."
WESTERN Bulldogs president Peter Gordon has called for the abolition of priority draft picks and the return to a salary cap with no extra allowances or cost of living dispensation.
Gordon said he had no issue with Melbourne being handed as much as $3 million by the AFL as part of a bail-out package.
But the request for a national draft priority pick has angered him, and he wants clubs given an even chance after the priority selections handed to the expansion clubs.
"The sooner we have an unencumbered draft system without priority picks of any kind, the better off we will be in the long term," Gordon told the Herald Sun.
"My view is the same applies to the salary cap. If we all exist in an environment where the salary cap is even, and everyone has a guaranteed ability to meet it, you will see more exciting seasons.
"As each team generates good players they will struggle to keep them in the salary cap and those who have fallen by the wayside a little will have more ability and space in their cap to compete.
"I look forward to the Bulldogs' prospects in a scenario with an even draft and even salary cap, because it will be the first time, perhaps ever, we have had a serious chance to compete."
Gordon said he had two objections to extra picks for the Demons: they had wasted them in the past, and they already enjoyed a handful of elite youngsters on their list.
s"If you look at the first-round and top-20 picks Melbourne have had in the last seven or eight years, it is up there amongst the high echelons and it doesn't appear to have been a panacea for the problems they have had," he said.
"And I have to say it bodes well for the future that if you look at what their list will look like in 2015 and 2016 and further there will be quite a few clubs which would like to know they have had the likes of Jack Viney and Jesse Hogan safely ensconced in their list."
Carlton president Stephen Kernahan told the Sunday Herald Sun that priority picks should be consigned to history.
Former Melbourne coach Neil Balme, now the Cats football manager, said yesterday he did not think giving Melbourne another priority pick was the answer.
"If you look at the number of picks they had over the last few years, you probably think maybe that's not their problem," he said.
"Maybe there are other things which are their problem. Clearly more picks will help them get off the bottom, but I don't think that's the answer."
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