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There's just too many top tier academy prospects.
The ideal was to supposedly offset the lack of F/S options but GCS gets 4 this year and we've had what 4 F/S picks in the last 20 years?
F/S can stay IMO, it's fine/not the problem.
Academy selections should just be limited to 1/year, then the club has to trade up to get a suitable pick for the second.
Everyone including the afl knows the system is stuffed.
More changes are coming and I wouldn’t be surprised to see father son abolished but imo the real problem are the academy picks as evident in this years draft. 4 picks for GC in the first round is ridiculous, as well as getting petracca via trade. They just have so much capital to work with
Why can’t the teams who miss out on these players (like us this year) be compensated instead ?
For example if an academy player is rated top 5 by majority of clubs why shouldn’t GC in this example have to trade for the right to draft him, maybe half the amount of points ?
So if we wanted Patterson but GC took him, they should have to trade us half pick 3’s value in picks (max 2 or 3 picks) and we retain our pick as well.
Maybe it’s convoluting it more but we have to be compensated, it’s ridiculous
Following the first round, Richmond's recruiting manager Rhy Gieschen had some choice words for the state of the draft system.
"The system needs to be addressed... if you finish second-bottom on the ladder you probably don't expect to have pick 7," he said.
Four bids inside the first six selections is a sign of the system working as AFL House intended. But its results skew the equalisation that the draft aims to implement in the competition when the semi-finalist Suns land four first-round talents and the back-to-back premiers bring in another star midfielder.
https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/47025333/afl-draft-2025-bids-trades-chaos-made-first-round
