AFL clubs pushing to buy draft picks using salary cap space (Foxsports)

[one-eyed]

AFL clubs are reportedly making a push for a fourth trade period currency — being able to buy draft picks using salary cap space.

AFL Media journalist Callum Twomey reports clubs down the bottom of the ladder with sufficient cap space would be able to use it to its advantage to gain draft capital from other teams.

While clubs currently trade using players, picks and draft points — the latter two tied together — Twomey revealed clubs are lobbying to introduce salary cap as another mechanism.

“There’s a fourth one I’m bringing to the table and has crept in really quickly and that’s payments. There’s three or four different currencies that are happening at the moment and clubs are keen to be able to buy draft picks using their salary cap space,” Twomey said on SEN Breakfast.

“It’s a fair way down the line at the moment. A bit of a landmark deal in terms of the Jack Bowes deal and what Geelong did to get a pick there.

“What the price of a draft pick is will be a massive question in coming seasons and clubs want it to happen pretty soon.”

The AFL has already allowed more salary dump deals in a big change to the trade period landscape, where teams can off-load unwanted salaries to cash-up rivals or otherwise use cap space more strategically.

And Twomey believes clubs being able to use cap space in trades would be a “natural evolution” of salary dumping, providing an example of how it could be utilised.

“West Coast has some money in its cap and Collingwood is pretty tight, for example,” Twomey said.

“So Collingwood say to West Coast, ‘we’ll give you our first round pick this year if you give us $500,000 salary cap relief.’

“There’s a limit and the AFL would need mechanisms to ensure you don’t go too far and one club is able to spend $20 million on their salary cap and another club is at $14 million.

“But go back to that deal and West Coast goes and purchases a pick for $500,000, the Pies retain their players and no one gets squeezed out, and the Eagles get a second hit at the draft.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/department-of-trade/afl-trade-news-rumours-whispers-push-for-clubs-to-be-able-to-buy-draft-picks-using-salary-cap-space-fourth-trade-currency-massimo-dambrosio-midseason-draft-prospects-out-of-contract/news-story/514b885dfce1f5deaccf5081d2d44a66

[Broadsword]

You'd think the current system was broken or something.

It's a pretty simple concept, the draft and the salary cap. Leave it alone.

[wayne]

This is probably illegal, or would be shut down quickly, but lets say with the GWS having our first pick.

We're not going great, we make a deal with the Giants, we tank, get you pick #2, we want a player in a trade, but for a big discount, say someone worth a late first, we get for a third rounder.

[Andyy]

This is probably illegal, or would be shut down quickly, but lets say with the GWS having our first pick.

We're not going great, we make a deal with the Giants, we tank, get you pick #2, we want a player in a trade, but for a big discount, say someone worth a late first, we get for a third rounder.

Under the table no worries lol