jake_h03 wrote:
Crusader wrote:
sticksaftersiren87 wrote:
In the Age today, they intimated that father son bidding would not be changed this year
They’re talking about picks after 54 (three rounds) having no points value - and here we are with a clutch of fourth rounders.
We’ll get the twins, that’s not an issue.
Where we’re at a disadvantage is not being able to move some of the value from either of our first two picks into future years. The fourth round picks don’t seem like much, especially when there’s only 60-odd picks getting used. But, they make that job easier.
As it stands, picks 60, 61 & 66 (361 points) are now worthless to us & anyone that might’ve traded for them.
Fair compensation would be a mid 3rd round pick.
From my understanding the changes won’t come in this year. The clubs were almost universally against the league changing rules manoeuvring had already been done for this draft, even if they weren’t directly affected.
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Was never going to happen this year.
Restraint of Trade.
AFL knows it has Buckley's Chance getting that over the line.
The threat of change by Kane was simply a diversionary tactic to take the focus away from the terrible state of the game, and the controversy around that.
The AFL has made a mess of Aussie Rules over the last 2 decades, and are back tracking and have gone back to the rules we enjoyed in the early 80's, to avoid the game looking like rugby just as our forefathers of the game stated, because the game is impossible to officiate since the AFL discarded/ disregarded how rules such as, in the back, push in the back, correct disposal, marking (remember 3 touches and its a mark? see G Ablett), and a pack forming was adjudicated.
The AFL did not considered the impact all their changes have had on the body of players let alone the look of the game since they changed rules to make the game faster. Stupid premise to start with.
Its the new AFL rules which have encouraged and crept into the game that are the cause most of the injuries we see today. The game has too many Rugby Union elements in today's mode. Don't blame Andrew Russell and his team. We are dealing with humans, and despite the fact we call the players "Gladiators", the AFL forget that is a figure of speech, a simple metaphor to highten the description of what the players do, not to be taken literally, as the AFL Commission seems to have done.
I have never seen the media, past players and people like me who have watched the game evolve over decades, be so critical of the game today. How many times have you heard or said, "I don't know the rules anymore? ".
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