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16 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Peter Daicos was recruited from Collingwood's Metropolitan Zone, as was Peter Moore.

It's sheer good luck for the Magpies that his two sons are excellent footballers.  Luck of the draw.

Contrast this with Alwyn Davey's two underwhelming sons at Essendon.  Luck of the draw.

Melbourne could possibly have Jeff White's and Aaron Davey's sons playing for us.  Luck of the draw.

Of all the sons that have been 'sired' by all the gentleman that have played the game at the highest level, some have gone on to great things, some mediocre things and some 'allegedly' terrible things. Names that come to mind include McClure, Stephenson and Scarlett - you can work out the order that best suits your needs...

As you said - Luck of the draw.

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19 hours ago, 58er said:

Why not ? It’s just logical and correct. The value is what is going to be decided depending upon the quality of player available.?

It’s utterly illogical and a complete lottery. It’s a throwback to a bygone area and runs counter to all other equalisation measures. 

It’s the football equivalent of generational wealth transfers that lock everyone else out. 

If Brisbane love Levi Ashcroft so much, go out and get the pick in the draft that he’s worth. 
 

And no, the value is decided based on a discount. On what planet should a club be incentivised to trade away a first round pick so they can burn a second rounder on the best junior in the country?

I love the father - son as it provides a connection with the club’s past.

Where father - son is a bit distorted:

Expansion clubs - no past players so no sons yet.

Mergers - twice as many fathers, so twice as many sons.

Bastards - mum was a football groupie

 

I think the father son is wonderful quirk of the AFL which encourages long term buy into clubs by supporters.

 

But the current system is [censored]. As are the academy rules.

 

Get rid of all discounts, you already have preferential access to the player. That is the discount!

 

Make it so that any matched bid requires a pick in the same round/next available within ~10 picks and then additional picks to make up the points difference.

 

Any further matched picks (additional father -sons/academy picks) would require another pick as per the same rules

 

There is live trading it can be done. 

 

Therefore clubs would have to choose exactly what they want and trade into place to secure the talent they really want as opposed to get gold for a bag of chips and three pie wrappers 

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