Just looking for clarification re drafting rules.

I'm pretty sure all clubs need to draft three players at the national draft, but do you need to use the selections or make at least the changes to your list?

Ie. In the event that we trade pick 2, 20 and 38 for players, is that sufficient, or do we need to physically draft 3 players?

Do late round rookie upgrades count as drafting?

  On 16/10/2013 at 01:17, deanox said:

Just looking for clarification re drafting rules.

I'm pretty sure all clubs need to draft three players at the national draft, but do you need to use the selections or make at least the changes to your list?

Ie. In the event that we trade pick 2, 20 and 38 for players, is that sufficient, or do we need to physically draft 3 players?

Do late round rookie upgrades count as drafting?

3 draft changes - in ND and PSD

Trades don't count

Rookie upgrades do count

As WJ suggested Hogan upgrade may also count

in short...you need 3 new names on your senior list..Doesnt matter how or why they get there. They can come fro your supllemental lists or anywhere.

basically at least 3 out 3 in

I think the question is moot; we will draft more than three players no matter what we do in trade time.

What is clear that the AFL, as per their normal procedure, did not clarify whether or not the former-17YO's counted towards the minimum three layers you must bring in. As Hogan and Martin are the last of these for the forseeable future, they will just keep us all wondering ...

Forgive my ignorance. What is the rationale for at least 3 compulsory changes? Seems arbitrary to me.

The reason is simply to force change every year so the PFA can say - 'we brought this many kids into the system, and this many players found new homes, blah blah.' It's completely arbitrary.

And its all about Primary list deletions - 3. Hogan, Clisby, and Magner coming onto the list could mean we don't go to the draft at all.

Of course, we won't do that though...

It may even hark back to the origins of the draft to force clubs to use it?

its to create a market for all the kiddies to rise into and all the hullaballoo that entails.

Basically forcing out 3 players creates the vacuum for the draft !!

Well I'd be very annoyed if my club felt that it had a 'perfect' list and had to dump 3 players and take pot luck on draft pick replacements. Only saving grace is that it probably would happen extremely rarely. If so, most clubs will turn over 3 or more anyway, so why enforce it. AFL seems to specialise in silly rules.

  On 16/10/2013 at 07:41, sue said:

Well I'd be very annoyed if my club felt that it had a 'perfect' list and had to dump 3 players and take pot luck on draft pick replacements. Only saving grace is that it probably would happen extremely rarely. If so, most clubs will turn over 3 or more anyway, so why enforce it. AFL seems to specialise in silly rules.

Amen to that Sue.

Although in a perfect situation a club could delist three players and pick them up again in the rookie draft as well as three players from the National Draft.