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Football => View from the Outer => Topic started by: one-eyed on July 13, 2007, 03:12:48 AM

Title: Trading future draft picks
Post by: one-eyed on July 13, 2007, 03:12:48 AM

Future picks plan

AFL clubs are pushing for an overhaul of the draft rules as the players' association moves to lobby for free agency.

At a meeting of the draft working party yesterday, Hawthorn personnel manager Chris Pelchen tabled a proposal to free up the trading and drafting rules.

Under the idea, a club could use a pick one year into the future to help sweeten a trade.

In other words, that club could put forward a draft pick from the current year's draft and another from the following year in exchange for a player.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,22065489%255E19771,00.html

Title: Re: Trading future draft picks
Post by: mightytiges on July 13, 2007, 03:43:22 AM

Trading for future picks would come in handy for gaining a good pick from a (perhaps deluded) club topping up to pinch a flag.