AFL: On The First Crack, David King gives a brutal review on struggling Saints forward Max King, and asks whether he should be traded out.
AFL 2024: Round 16 Talking Points, analysis, reaction, results, wrap, highlights, problem with northern academies and draft debate , substitute rule should go, Clayton Oliver problemsAs the AFL prepares to make changes to the draft and trade period , one thing is clear - we’ll never make everyone happy.
“Victorian clubs were happy to play the homesick card and feast on Tom Lynch, Steven May, Dion Prestia and Jaeger O’Meara, but when the Suns develop talent in their own backyard, there is suddenly outrage,” the former AFL GM of national and international game development said. It’s worth noting Steven May and Jaeger O’Meara aren’t from Victoria but the point still has some validity; part of the reason for the NSW and Queensland academies is to ensure those clubs aren’t so frequently raided, because the heartland footy states simply produce more talent and have an advantage in that regard.Giants CEO tees off on Victorian bias | 02:41
Remember, the Suns got four first-round players last year, and yes they had to do plenty of deals to get there but the system is not working as intended. The unintended consequence of the Draft Value Index was the creation of two separate currencies - the draft picks teams want to use to pick players, and the draft picks teams want to use to match bids.
This is also one of those arguments where you can’t win because you can always one-up your opponent, like the travel debate - where you can go around in a circle saying ‘travel is a disadvantage, but not getting true home ground advantage as often is a disadvantage, but the Grand Final always being in Victoria is a disadvantage, but not getting true home finals when you’re not an MCG tenant is a disadvantage’, and so on.
That’s probably not going to change. And really, there’s a bigger problem at the core of all this: the AFL itself. It’s almost like tuning a video game. The AFL needs to come out with new patch notes, because the 2023 version of the academy system was OP.An AFL legend has called for the sub rule to be removed as a “blight on the game” and for the league to replace it with a fifth player on the bench.
For one, it’s both deflating and anticlimactic for young players making their debuts or otherwise trying to break onto the AFL scene to be the sub, or to get subbed out. “I’d hate to be a player. just terrible. Just five players on the bench.”Port Adelaide 300-gamer Kane Cornes “couldn’t agree more” with Lloyd’s opinion.
Not to mention the possibility that a team uses its sub then suffers an injury and thus is heavily disadvantaged, with a healthy player unable to return in an already brutally tough and taxing game.Failing Giants savaged | 05:36GWS is trending towards finishing as this season’s biggest underperformer.
“Nonplussed is about the best I could come up with to describe the look in that Giants room — they’re out of the eight now — it’s not a particularly easy road from here on in with the footy they’re playing at the moment,” Fox Footy’s Anthony Hudson said after the siren on Saturday. “Unfortunately, we’re conceding runs of goals that we’re unable to minimise at this point in time, so we’ve got to continue to work on trying to fix it.
“I’ll stick with these guys,” he said. “I have full trust in them, I have full faith that they’ll turn it around. We’ll stick with the guys, and, again, I’m confident we’ll turn it around, but it’s not happening as quick as what I’d like. However, those home matches come against tough opposition in Carlton, Gold Coast, Hawthorn and Fremantle.
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