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No the club picking up a free agent gives up nothing…Royston wrote:Is the pick you get for FA....say Goddard going, is it 'that' clubs round pick or is it a pick 'created' by the league.
Do we get a first round pick from say Richmond if he goes to Punt Rd or do they keep their 1st rounder and we get a 1st rounder 'created' by the powers that be??
dragit wrote:No the club picking up a free agent gives up nothing…Royston wrote:Is the pick you get for FA....say Goddard going, is it 'that' clubs round pick or is it a pick 'created' by the league.
Do we get a first round pick from say Richmond if he goes to Punt Rd or do they keep their 1st rounder and we get a 1st rounder 'created' by the powers that be??
Our pick would be a pick 'generated' by the AFL, it sounds like it would be directly after our first pick - so we would have 13 & 14
dragit wrote:Apparently the compensation you receive for losing a player to free agency, takes into account any players that you gain via free agency. All part of a dubious "AFL determined formula" no doubt.Saint_Ash wrote:I'm not sure I understand your logic. How would pick 13 turn in to 31?dragit wrote:If we lose Goddard to free agency, then we will probably want to avoid picking up a free agent, otherwise we will risk diluting the compensation we would receive for Goddard.
I personally don't want to see a pick 13, turn into a pick 31 because we have picked up a 31 YO ruckmen, or even a 26YO defender.
An average key defender/ruckmen won't make us premiers next year, we need a longer term plan than that.
Say if we lost Goddard, but gained Cloke, then we would receive no compensation per se.
Not sure how it would be effected if we took a player of Chaplains calibre though? It could drop our compo pick from mid first round, back to end of fist round or second round - no-one knows until Andrew reads his tea leaves…
