Just for a spitball on this, if Koby was pick 1, Rodan 10 and Darwish 15 (due to players being out of the pool via Tasmania pre-list / mini draft rules), we would need:
5249 draft point and we would only be able to use a maximum of 6 picks (2 per bid) to match.
That would mean needing a collection of picks like 4, 17, 19, 21, 25 and 31 (but that is with Tassie also having picks 1, 3, 9 and access to trading 5, 7, 11 and 13)
Gonna be virtually impossible to get all three without giving up a lot to get those picks (although, perhaps it might go the other way where draft points are worth more than the players so clubs are willing to give them to get into future or previous drafts?)
I donât believe the 17 year old mini draft will affect the 2027 draft.
Wouldnât make sense forcing Tassie to trade them out in 2026. Rules out trades for players, would all have to be for future picks.
Mini draft would be held in 2027, affecting 2028 eligible players.
Tassies prelisting of 17 year olds also occurs over 2 years, so likely less impact on 2027 than youâd expect.
Will be interesting to see how that ties in with the mini draft though.
Yeah ok - I thought those 17-year-olds would play VFL for Tassie in â27 and then be on the senior list for the Devilâs debut year.
That was how it worked with the Giants.
With regards to the mini-draft - I believe that is up to four selections to be auctioned over a two year period (so if all the best bids came for selections in one draft, they would all go then.
Some of these specifics are yet to be released from what Iâve read though, so maybe thereâs a second edition coming out.
Yeah, my thoughts are purely around âwhenâ the mini draft will take place.
You had them effecting the Bewick draft, I just canât see how that would work. Tassie obviously need to receive picks/players for them, so this happening in 2026 wouldnât make sense.
Like you said though, weâll just have to wait for clarification.
Thatâs fully how I expect it to work, at least for the first batch they pick up. I assume there will be a limit though, so theyâll want to spread them over the 2026 and 2027 drafts (which would be players eligible for 2027 and 2028).
They could receive future picks for them but youâre right that it would impact the ability to get players out of those deals.
so in reality the mini draft players have to come from the â28 and â29 draft pools.
In relation to the 17-year olds - if the first batch followed my thinking, theyâd be 2027 prospects (turning 18 before March and playing VFL in their top age draft year). A second batch would be VFl eligible only in the Devils first season.
They do have provisions to sign 2026 draft eligible Tasmanians that are willing to forgo starting an AFL career at another club for a year
I still think that if your father played at AFL level, it should be irrelevant where your parents were born. Youâre probably going to grow up playing footy.
They talk about tightening up the NGA rules, but this seems like an obvious loophole that shouldnât be allowed. Having said that, if we can get something out of it, who am I to say no?
I get it but I think the point isnât to try and loophole sons of players into clubs through NGA picks, but instead itâs to keep bringing multicultural families into the NGA pathways to build out representation in the sport
The point is to increase representation though. What if your dad played but didnât even debut and you grew up playing footy but didnât have access to the talent pathways others do just because of your socio economic background?
I agree. If one parent played either state or national football, then I think you should be disqualified from participating in NGAs and Northern Academies. I thought it was terrible that Blakey could go to Sydney rather than North.
But, as you say, if it benefits us, well Iâll swallow it!
itâs an equity pathway, I donât really see the issue
not everyone from a multicultural background is going to be in the same boat as the Rodan family, and not everyone in that situation has equitable access to footy pathways even if they did happen to play it as kids
The academies make a big difference in elevating good talent that wouldnât get drafted, to quality talent that does get drafted.
There is no better example of this than the bachar houli academy. The past 50 years weâve had less than 5 Muslim players in the AFL, from 2024 to 2027 weâll have at least 5 in that period alone coming into the AFL, due the the academyâs development program.
No offence, but itâs a bit of a stretch going back to 50 years ago, when there really wasnât a huge Muslim demographic in general to draw from, but I take your point.
I was covering against someone saying âwhat aboutâŚ.. in the 80s". But yes I agree, however even when I was in school in the 90s and 2000s every Arab kid in my school was playing local footy back then too. My best mate was a star at Pascoe vale, Iâm sure if the academies were around back then he would have made it to the afl.
Yeah you would assume the AFL would have given some preapproval for who is eligible and who is not.
But I am surprised Pacific islander kids werenât already included as a way of combating Rugby teams who have academies and contracts to younger guys from 13ish onward
