These changes limit bottom teams with FS or Academies to trade for quality. This year it would be someone like Butters and not that he would want to come to us but our hands would be tied and everyone would know it. Having top kids you need to bid on with top picks also restricts your dealing. GC got in well last year………smart operators.

There is also Arli Walker in 2029 I believe.

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Jagga

With the new drafting for father son and nga players in now the best thing for Carlton in to come last and use the first pick on Dougie Cochrane that way port will match our bid which will trigger a second round compensation pick for us

Farcical. The AFL has encouraged the bottom clubs to cannibalise other bottom clubs by offering additional draft picks as an incentive. Even if they didn't rate Walker and Cochrane as the 2 best players, they would be derelict in their duties by not bidding on them.
Greg Swann has confirmed what most already knew. Narcissistic shit bloke.

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Lol that would be @#$%&! hilarious.

Stick it right up the AFL.

I would feel bad for Port though.

What's more likely to happen is that Richmond finish bottom and bid on Cody. cauliflower.

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Been saying that about Swann for years and have been howled down . The mutt has only been at the AFL for a short time and as hard as it is to believe he is actually making it worse . Dead set wrecking ball .

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Well I'm on board with you Mick and BV.
This is just a F$%^ up ontop of a F#$#% up pretending to fix it.

Let's not forget st Kilda's hand in this

Idiots

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#DonTheStash

How much does AFL just suck at the moment.

The whole product just stinks.

Let’s say we finish 15 or 16

What do we give up to get Cody assuming there is an early bid.

That pick, plus a good chunk, if not all, of the next one.

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the whole thing is a clusterfck, tbh... i don't even know which is worse. the onfield product or the geese running the show off of it.

What a farce this new Draft rule is. Fancy encouraging Tanking. Everything about this is wrong. Swann wants to be a hero. Instead, typical of those in the AFL Commission, he has blood on his hands.

Only half of the Presidents backed the changes. How did this go through to the keeper.

Lick of Ice cream .... what a dick. He counted the Campo twins at pick 43 and 53.

Dean cost us two firsts last year. Walker will cost us two firsts plus some. Unproven players.

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Bassat whinges about Pies, GCS and Brizzy milking the system and the Draft is turned upside down, encouraging tanking.

Hardwick complains about Cripps spun 360 and getting a HB away, and the holding the ball decision becomes even more confusing, penalising Cripps and walsh for showing strength and great play to get the ball away, whilst we continue to see players spun 360 in a tackle and called play on.

Game just keeps getting worse. Umpiring keeps getting worse. Fans are left confused and frustrated.

I've stopped watching other games from start to finish. Too frustrating to watch the inconsistencies. Footy was much easier in the 60's- 90's. WTF happened after that? Oh yeah Carlton hating Commissioners took the game away from the people and made it their game of vendettas: Demetriou and Evans you have a lot to answer for. Swann, youre a goose!

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If we have pick 3 or 4 and (Tigers, WCE, Bumbers are) bottom of ladder, they will pick Walker and Cochrane pick 1 and 2 because they are encourage to, to get an extra pick.

We give up Pick 15/16, then the points required to make up the points for pick 1/2 cannot be made up by the Swans first round pick (which at the time is pick 16-18) which we have. Then we go into deficit.

Goes against the spirit of the Draft and effort to avoid Tanking in the last 12 games of the H&A.

Appeal. Lets see what Preistley and his Board are made of. Lie down and take the hits, or fight City Hall?

Appeal!!!!

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If the AFL Commission play the bully game they are known for, and threaten to fine us for the unfortunate Holland situation created by the economics of the soft cap, then Appeal that too!!!!

Sick of being the AFL's punching bag.
25 years of it and I'm sick and tired of it.

Appeal for your supporters.
Make the AFL accountable.
Swann needs that smirk wiped off his face.

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Preistey's letter to Members



So, we all agree the AFL has completely dismissed any of Carlton's views on changes to the Draft. We all agree the AFL has not treated us fairly with this. We all agree the clubs who were allowed to milk the Draft with latter picks, will continue with that advantage over teams who havent the same opportunity to replenish their lists.

What are we doing about it?



Nothing.

Accepting that the AFL chooses to completely ignore the requests for fairness of its treatment of Carlton, and accepts the disadvantage the AFL has enforced on Carlton.

Spin it however you like Preistly, but imo, you have given up on the club's right to defend its position in a court of law.

This is a farce. Farcical from our President and Board as a response, and farcical the size of the runway AFL has offered the competition for 2026.

In any man's language the AFL have been too late in making a call at the end of April for this November's Draft. That doesn't need explanation.

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Yes , Swann is the classic case of poacher turned into the gamekeeper .

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All my dangerous friends

Priestley has got too many problems retrieving the Saudis money to be tied up in courtrooms over footy.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Ooh, I like that one. That or ladder-puller.