With players naming a club of choice when they want to be traded, free agency effectively starts at the end of the players first contract (or earlier if you are Tom Boyd). The club the player is leaving from either accepts what is offered up by the other club or if the player is out of contract they could end up with nothing if the payer ends up in the draft.

Compo picks should all be at the end of rounds, and none in the first round. Clubs should also be able to trade players without their consent too.

It's a mechanism for keeping the strong Clubs strong and the week Clubs week by more easily facilitating the automatic transfer of the best players in the weak Clubs to the strong Clubs without the inconvenience of having to give up anything.

It has had the added benefit of trickling down the mentality to non Free Agents so that all players now want to leave the weak Clubs and go to the strong Clubs.

Clubs that were weak before the Expansion teams and Free Agency will stay that way from now on and the Clubs that were strong before will stay that way.

Right on Time

The AFL are very happy to have the top clubs continuing to roll along and grow ever stronger. I would hate to be on the bottom 6 clubs in this competition right now....oh wait

The MFC has dug its own grave over many decades, but the other 5 will also continue to dead cat bounce off and along the bottom for more decades to come under this set up with the gulf between the bottom 6, middle 6 and top 6 about to grow even wider than it already is.

The AFL has effectively cemented the class based competition of the haves and the have nots that it helped set up over the decades prior to this, hammering in the final nail with its version of Free Agency.

We need to get Dill the likeable on it right away.