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FJ is the only one that makes sense.
When St.George won 11 GF's in a row in the old NSWRL comp back in the 50's & 60's they constantly changed the rules of the game to to try and stop them...most notably going from unlimited tackles to four tackles before settling on the set of six we see today.... hope we go one better & do a twelvepeat....the AFL will probably disband & dissolve itself...
I work in Africa and they were taking the pee out of me for saving Africa.......
What King is sprouting is a backwards move. It would no longer be free agency as there would be restrictions on where a player can move.
Free agency gave Richmond Tom Lynch — but under this model the premiers wouldn’t have got himOctober 4, 2019 Sarah OlleFOX SPORTSDavid King has made the bold call that top-four teams should be precluded from receiving free agents — or at least, teams that have made the top-four two years in a row.The AFL great said the current format benefits clubs at the top of the ladder, with the gap between the rest of the pack growing each trade period.Richmond was the latest club to benefit from free agency, with Gold Coast Suns forward Tom Lynch choosing Punt Road Oval as his new home. Twelve months later he has a flag.But under King’s model, Lynch wouldn’t have had the option to go to the Tigers, who made the preliminary finals in 2018.“I think when we signed up for (free agency) the equalisation measures, the pillars, are gone,” King told Fox Footy’s Trading Day.“The draft doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, the salary cap doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do.“We see Tom Lynch come to Richmond, players take pay cuts to get a superstar in like that, so the salary cap — while it impacts once every three or four years at each club — it doesn’t rule the roost like it should.“I think if you finish top-four in the competition, maybe in two consecutive years, you’re not able to get involved in free agency until you fall out of the top-four and become part of the pack.”It’s unlikely the AFL Players’ Association would acquiesce to such conditions.Free agency has opened the door for players like Lynch, who’ve served at the bottom placed clubs, to experience not only playing finals, but winning a flag.But King said that wasn’t the way other sporting codes operated and that the AFL should conform to world standards.“It happens around the world and it seems to work,” King said.“We’ve got to give those clubs stuck in the middle or down the bottom a chance because clearly the sell for Richmond, and other clubs at the top, is too easy.”What’s perhaps even more perverse is that Brandon Ellis’ departure to the Gold Coast Suns could give Richmond a compensation pick in the draft, which could be as low as Pick 19, one pick after the Tigers’ first selection at the draft.Herald Sun journalist Jon Ralph suggested one way to help equalise free agency would be to do away with compensation for top-eight clubs, while St Kilda great Leigh Montagna said there would be more balance if players became free agents after six years of service.Under the current model in which free agency was activated after eight years, Montagna said players became a “bit itchy” and would naturally search for success at the top clubs.“If you can have free agency at six years you can sell the bigger picture to a club that’s rebuilding,” Montagna said.https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-trade-period-2019-david-king-says-topfour-clubs-shouldnt-have-access-to-free-agents/news-story/7d5ce75a21612505657495235806308e
