Priority Pick

[SaberFang 7,151]

GWS are still getting concessions despite having the best crop of young talent in the competition. It's a friggen joke and everyone in the AFL knows it.

Meanwhile we look like schmucks even raising the topic. Why on earth do GWS deserve to still be receiving bonus picks in the draft when they already have so much talent held hostage?

[TheoX 1,222]

There was an article recently that showed the players we would likely have got if not for GWS: We had O'Meara and Cameron FFS.

[olisik 4,060]

GWS are still getting concessions despite having the best crop of young talent in the competition. It's a friggen joke and everyone in the AFL knows it.

Meanwhile we look like schmucks even raising the topic. Why on earth do GWS deserve to still be receiving bonus picks in the draft when they already have so much talent held hostage?

what concessiond are they still getting?

[SaberFang 7,151]

This year they get a bonus pick at the end of the first round, so #19.

So that makes their first 3 picks #3, #19 and #22.

[Machsy 2,858]

This year they get a bonus pick at the end of the first round, so #19.

So that makes their first 3 picks #3, #19 and #22.

They traded for that pick, genius.

[Trisul 674]

what concessiond are they still getting?

50 player list, +1m salary cap

[SaberFang 7,151]

They traded for that pick, genius.

Touche, didn't realise that. But as above, extra $1m in their salary cap and larger list so they can hoard talent without having to give it up to other clubs.

[Moneider96 1,045]

Guys I was too young when port adelaide started to know anything about what happened. But did they get the same privileges as the current expansion clubs?

[Machsy 2,858]

Touche, didn't realise that. But as above, extra $1m in their salary cap and larger list so they can hoard talent without having to give it up to other clubs.

True that.

[titan_uranus 25,209]

Saints doing their best to secure pick 1.

Besides making their intentions clear in the way they have discussed the possibility of trading pick 1, as if they have a mortgage on it, they have now put Dunstan in for season-ending surgery that could have waited.

GWS likewise have had a quarter of their list in for surgery in the last few weeks.

The tank race is on.

Tank or no tank, you can't tell me St Kilda won't be fired up to win on Sunday for Lenny.

I'd be livid if I were a St Kilda supporter and the coaches weren't trying 100% to win that game.

[SaberFang 7,151]

Even more farcical is the extra $1m in their salary cap is on top of the COLA allowance.

This is a good article surmising the way GWS manipulated the system of AFL gifted concessions to amass so much young talent over the last 5 years:

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/rivals-tip-juggernaut-as-greater-western-sydney-amasses-top-draft-picks/story-fnelctok-1226492372863

2014 - 44-50 senior list, nine rookies with $640,000 - $1m TPP extra allowance;
2015 - 44-48 senior list, nine rookies with $640k - $880k TPP extra allowance;
2016 - 42-46 senior list, nine rookies with $520k - $760k TPP extra allowance;
2017 - 40-44 senior list, nine rookies with $400k - $640k TPP extra allowance;
2018 - 38-42 senior list, nine rookies with $200k - $520k TPP extra allowance;
2019 - 38 senior list, nine rookies in line with other AFL clubs.

[Gorgoroth 13,188]

Nah port did not get theses sort of concessions iirc.

[old dee 24,028]

Nah port did not get theses sort of concessions iirc.

Another season is about to start for the Rams Gorgoroth

Any chance of a play off spot this year?

[rpfc 28,964]

That extra mil is the Scully concession...

[biggestred 5,266]

to be fair, if you have 4 extra players on your list you need an extra 500k just to pay them what everyone else is getting.

the actual fact of having an extra 4 players on their list is a different story altogether...

[Waltham33 475]

The mini-draft concept would suit our needs

[TRIGON 4,796]

A priority pick will help us and the AFL towards the objective of Melbourne becoming a more entertaining team to watch - for both us an opposition fans.

And the AFL is an entertainment. Our kiwi cousins have made it official AFL not a competition: NZ tax department

[Gorgoroth 13,188]

Another season is about to start for the Rams Gorgoroth

Any chance of a play off spot this year?

Hard to say, our group has gone from the worst to the best, Seattle will top the group and both the niners and cards have solid teams.

[old dee 24,028]

A priority pick will help us and the AFL towards the objective of Melbourne becoming a more entertaining team to watch - for both us an opposition fans.

And the AFL is an entertainment. Our kiwi cousins have made it official AFL not a competition: NZ tax department

That is liable to kill that experiment.

[ThreeOneSix 954]

A priority pick will help us and the AFL towards the objective of Melbourne becoming a more entertaining team to watch - for both us an opposition fans.

And the AFL is an entertainment. Our kiwi cousins have made it official AFL not a competition: NZ tax department

The NZ government got it right.

Whenever an industry puts money before the game, then an argument could be made that it is for other purposes - money, entertainment, etc.

Clearly the AFL have compromised the purity of the sport, by monetising it. The draw itself is based around TV rights and popularity.

This whole equalisation debate cannot even be solved.

Because here is the thing, the AFL is a money making machine, and it has ruined the game in order in order to get rich.

Now people expect the AFL will equalise the very game it ruined, it's laughable.. All the AFL will do is try and equalise the money generated from stuffing up the game.

Maybe the AFL is adapting with the times and it is neccessary, that is for more learned people than I to judge.

But the way I see it, the only way to equalise the game is to let the game dictate business - as opposed to business dictating the direction of the game.

[Bearthor 9]

PP + Watts should get something to the club

[Meggs 598]

The Watts apologists...oh pleeeeeeeease

[Return to Glory 8,477]

Could GWS tank any more than today. Goal down at half time at home and lose by 75 points. Yeah, right!

[olisik 4,060]

Could GWS tank any more than today. Goal down at half time at home and lose by 75 points. Yeah, right!

Mohr, Scully, Whitfield, Coniglio and Cameron all having end of season surgery...

[Return to Glory 8,477]

Mohr, Scully, Whitfield, Coniglio and Cameron all having end of season surgery...

I can confirm that Scully is having his heart replaced with a pea.