To be honest I think the new system of f/s is a good one and is quite fair.
The thing that's bad about it and isn't fair is how the AFL is implementing it. They seem to like to change rules on the fly without properly bringing it in slowly. Last year clubs were picking up greats for 3rd rounders, now we are going to have to potentially pay overs by a few picks for a F/S.
Within a 1 year turn around that's quite a drastic change, the AFL needs to learn the term 'phasing' and implement this slowly. An appropriate way would have been to have a few years of clubs having to pay at the highest 2nd round picks or so. Or each year gradually lower the minimum pick # that a club would need to pay for a F/S. Not change it so one year your paying a pick in the 40s to the next year you are paying a pick in the top 3.
I hope we pick up Viney but I am quite sick to death of the way the AFL try to implement rule changes on the fly and so abruptly so often. I am glad the AFL arn't politicians as if they were one day we would be allowed to drink, smoke, take drugs in public, then the next day we would be looking at the death penalty for it. Whats the point of the integrity officer if they cant even look at the integrity of themselves?