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2023 Draft Thread.

De Mattia getting Adams' #13 already. Starting to get sick and tired of this Fly love at the Scum.
 
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tigersnake said:
As I've said, the only positive from the Suns academy concessions, and how eye-poppingly extreme it is, is that it will trigger change. Pretty slow on the uptake these journos, but this is telling, and pretty funny because the tone suggests these guys have just woken-up to whats going on:


These guys focus on only one facet of this multi-facetted rort, and one that I hadn't really considered because its peripheral, and that is the potential for soft corruption wink-wink deals between clubs so they don't bid, or bid a bit later. They aske the question; if North were willing to bid at 3, why not 2? (I think Sin answered that with the bonus $ factor, so its poor if pro journos don't know that). They do mention the fact that they got Read for 2 picks in the 30s, and state that that would never happen in a real market, which is the core issue.

Also interesting IMO opinion is the contrast with the above and similar rumblings, with AFL payroll journos like Twomey who peddlies this *smile* line about what a great job the Suns recruiters have done and suggest that it might be in any way difficult.

Changes will come in. They will probably include some or all of 1) the discount being reduced and/ or staged so it gets lower with each player or disappears after the first player, 2) club must use a pick in the same round as when the player is drafted, 3) review of the points allocation, 4) maybe a limit on players allowed to be matched.

This has been an outrageous rort even by AFL standards.
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I called SEN one day, back about 2013 or 14, whenever this whole point thing came about.
I complained about folks getting a top end pick for 3 and 4th rounders. They said "yeah, but they have to give up 2 or 3 players to get 1"
My response was "but they're likely getting a 150-200 game player, instead of 2 players with a 30% chance of playing 50 games". They said I "didn't understand the mechanics" and the system was "fair."
10ish years later, and folks are waking up. Bunch of condescending idiots.
 
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Missed the draft yesterday- why were there 29 picks in the first rd? I can see only 7 academy and fs picks.
 
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