Bulldogs Father-Son and NGA Prospects

[Bulldog Joe]

Only the AFL could fumble this situation so badly. To let it be manipulated for so long, and do nothing, and then somehow, we are at a stage of lockouts. Why was there ever a discount, it should have been a tax from the start, the benifit is having first access to talent.

- All F/S, Academies and NGA should be completed outside of the draft
- No bidding system, the AFL has enough paid employees, who can work with the industry to assign a value to the player
- Value of a player is something like 1-5, 6-10, 11-20, 21-35, 36-50 ect (Data will tell you players picked inside the top 8 are much more likely to play 100 games, 200 games B&F or AA
- Yes, you must use round for round likeliness, but pick 18, does not get you a top 5 pick, it will take 2 picks in the teens, and future picks are okay.
- Take the Lions for example, I have no issue with them having 2XAshcroft, Fletcher, Marshall and Annabelle. But, they would have likely needed to trade some talent away, and probably use future picks 1st and some 2nd round, 3 years in advance to do it.

That's the choice and payoff. it really isnt that hard, and the AFL has been asleep for years.

Thanks Rusty
Again you give a logical option.

The other thing it would do is take the discretion of bypassing a player or bidding on 1 tied player instead of another for undisclosed reasons.

There was almost a unanimous view that N Daicos should be top pick but we had to pay more for Darcy.