Gold Coast team don't want much.

[goswannie14]

According to this article in The Age they want huge draft concessions in the year before they enter the competition.

Coast in bid for 20 of top 24

At a meeting with AFL and club officials last Friday, leading members of the consortium proposed that the new club be given picks 1-5 and 10-24 in the 2010 national draft, with the bottom four teams receiving picks 6,7, 8 and 9 in the normal reverse order.

[dimelb]

Perhaps the East Coast Vultures?

[cruiser]

According to this article in The Age they want huge draft concessions in the year before they enter the competition.

Coast in bid for 20 of top 24

This is absurd. I dont recall any of the Perth or Adelaide teams getting concessions like this - did they?

[goswannie14]

IIRC the Brisbane Bears were formed with 2-3 players from every other clubs list as a starting point.

[Claret]

IIRC the Brisbane Bears were formed with 2-3 players from every other clubs list as a starting point.

And the reason they are asking for these concessions is to avoid what happened in that situation.

At least 10 of the GC draft picks would then need to be traded away to other sides, thereby giving them a more balanced kids/mature bodied players list.

They probably won't get quite that many picks (somewhere in between the AFL's initial proposal and the GC one) but it does make sense.

[AnnieH]

They can go to hell.

Isn't it enough that every team is going to be asked to contribute?

They can have Davo and Matthews.

[Claret]

Isn't it enough that every team is going to be asked to contribute?

That's the point though - apart from missing out on 1, maybe 2 draft picks at the end of one season - every other team doesn't have to contribute without getting something in return, ie. draft picks.

[Robbo]

Tell them they're dreaming.

[Pekay]

This is absurd. I dont recall any of the Perth or Adelaide teams getting concessions like this - did they?

Both state already had a state league that wasn't far behind the AFL when they were formed, so it wasn't as necessary as it would be for a QLD team...
Can't see a problem with it, gives them some trade clout.

[RogueSwan]

Both state already had a state league that wasn't far behind the AFL when they were formed, so it wasn't as necessary as it would be for a QLD team...
Can't see a problem with it, gives them some trade clout.

Yeah, it is not like we can stop it happening. We may as well get used to the fact that the AFL want GC17 to be competitive.
Maybe, we can get something good for our ageing veterans, allow them to retire somewhere warm to look after their joints.

[SimonH]

There were a surprising number of good-quality SA players not on an AFL list in 1997 (and WA players in 1995 when Freo came in); Port got some draft concessions but I remember they complained at the time how small they were (and they still managed to be competitive pretty much immediately).

Now, no-one's under any illusion that the lemon of nationwide talent isn't sucked dry each November. Gold Coast and WS will need monstrous draft concessions (not unlike these ones) to have a decent chance of being competitive.

Good teams are such slick units these days (e.g. the players know each other and each other's game like the back of their hands), that even if the GC and WS get concessions at the higher end of expectations, there's a fair chance they'll suffer some real poundings for the first year or two until the players and coaches gel.

Maybe, we can get something good for our ageing veterans, allow them to retire somewhere warm to look after their joints.

An interesting one. Forget MOL, BBBH, Kirk (as if he'd leave the Bloods!) and Leo who will all be retired or near enough to it by 2010. We will have a huge volume of players in the 27-30 age bracket by end 2010 and will need a transfusion of quality youth. GC will need to hit the ground running and so as long as the player has at least 2-3 years left, they won't be able to be too choosy about 'that player is too old'. More than half the damn side could qualify: NOG, Buchanan, JBolt, CBolt, Richards, LRT (is older than Richards!), Mattner, ROK, Fosdike, Goodes, Playfair (in unlikely event he's still here and has trade value), Jolly.

GC could be the best thing that ever happened to the Swans' long-term list management.

[Claret]

AFL announce first GC concession

Seems fair enough, so far.

[swansrule100]

anyone else wish they werent bringing in any new teams?

[Robbo]

anyone else wish they werent bringing in any new teams?

Yep.

I wish a couple of Victorian clubs would just relocate. Send one to the Gold Coast and one to West Sydney.

[goswannie14]

Yep.

I wish a couple of Victorian clubs would just relocate. Send one to the Gold Coast and one to West Sydney.

..and one to Tassie. then merge 4 teams into two and we could have a 14 team comptition with a 26 round h&a season. Better still get it down to 12 teams and have the good old 22 round h&a season, much better.

Trouble is, by the time that all happened, there would only be 2 teams in Melbourne plus one in Geelong. They just aren't going to let that happen.