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Firstly …. every successful and sustainable rebuild in the post AFL era has taken either 7 to 8 seasons from start to premiership. Carlton has finished year 3. Secondly, Free Agency has complicated things. While free agents have moved to all levels, the high quality ones have tended to move from a lower club to a higher one. Thirdly, successful rebuilds have all had several drafts where there was a cohort of three stars draft in the same draft (2015 might be one for Carlton) There is no doubt we need faster churn of teams and a more even competition. If there are 9 quality games a week, the pie will get bigger. The best thing for the AFL to do is systematically slant the draft towards lower teams and adopt Option 2 of having the first 20 picks for the teams that missed the finals (in fact I would extend that to the first 30 picks) – this doesn’t guarantee that clubs will pick the best ones… but increases the chance. It also provides trade bait for experience players. Teams that drop out of the finals race in one year can bounce back …. and tanking would mean not playing finals.
Priority picks are not the solution for the AFL's strugglers
Its already been touted that the Blues will be the biggest players this trade period. There is a significant unknown in the priority pick scenario. I think there is still a chance (outside) that the priority pick will be Number 2 (with GC getting 4 and 5 to go with their now pick 3). This will rapidly accelerate the rebuilds of both clubs. These priority picks might be required to be traded. Carlton sends pick 2 to Adelaide for McGovern and pick 19 (formerly 15 – Melbourne’s first rounder) and 22 (formerly Carltons pick 19), Suns send Brodie and Scrimshaw for Carltons last second rounder and Casboult, GWS sends Shiel and Setterfield for Carltons second first round pick, first second round pick (follow that one) and 2019 First rounder, Fasolo as an unrestricted FA, Rookie Barlow and Hartung (speed).
Carlton's rebuild stems on this trade period