Smith, Cronk and Slater would of been in that 81 onwards bracket. Storm 'drafted' three players out of Brisbane that no one else wanted.
They wouldn't of been in Brisbane's five and would of been nominated for the draft.
As an example.
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Smith, Cronk and Slater would of been in that 81 onwards bracket. Storm 'drafted' three players out of Brisbane that no one else wanted.
They wouldn't of been in Brisbane's five and would of been nominated for the draft.
As an example.
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If only the Storm wanted them though I don't see how the draft helps? Given nobody signed those guys back in the day I can only assume they wouldn't have drafted them either. And it's not like the other clubs didn't have the option of chasing them if they want to.
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If they introduce an NRL draft there's going to be 10 teams competing for the top 8 every year, and 6 teams competing for last place.
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They need to reward clubs that breed juniors (Canberra, Brisbane, Wests, NZ, NQ and a few others that I'm missing). The fact that leeches like the Roosters, Storm, Manly, etc are profiting off of other without an incentive for the the aforementioned clubs to breed players is disgusting, and a draft won't solve that.
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Your mentioning of the Warriors brings up another point to my mind. Such a move would probably just send some guys to Union. A lot of the Kiwi juniors that are living in NZ probably wouldn't want to be drafted in Aus and have to may away from their families, a lot of whom they have a tight bond with for cultural and religious reasons.
A lot of those guys are also chased by Union. I imagine the fact that there is a draft would make the decision easier for a lot of them. Might even apply to some guys in Aus too if they were forced to choose between the two.
Nobody poaches AFL players to another code, nor NFL or NBA players. NRL gets poached all the time, I think a draft asks for more of it to happen at a junior level.
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You watch NBA?
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If any club in the game produces a local talent that has a desire to play for that club the club has every right to him and fielding local juniors makes the link to the community stronger imo. The current system is fine as every club has produced great juniors and a club's development system is their own business.
[MENTION=1917]Ari Gold[/MENTION]; Yes the draft happened only once and it was in 1990 and yes Terry Hill took the NSWRL to court and won
[MENTION=1917]Ari Gold[/MENTION]; Yes the draft happened only once and it was in 1990 and yes Terry Hill took the NSWRL to court and won
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I see no problem if the draft involves all players who have graduated from the NYC. If a player and club agree to terms the player is signed by that club, but they are part of the top 25. If a club or player decide not to negotiate a contract that player then goes into the draft. If selected that player is then awarded a 1 or 2 year rookie contract that is salary cap exempt. This would provide a benefit for clubs developing juniors and also players that think they might have a better opportunity in the draft.
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They are talking about a junior draft. I wrote my comment before reading one proposal is to make 5 players exempt. How can you re-sign players if they haven't been drafted?
Your current players are yours, if for example you had a player coming off contract and you want him and he wants to stay he just re-signs and job done.
If you don't want him and or he doesn't want you then he could nominate for the draft or you could do a deal with another club. That's when things like we will give you Hunt provide Hunt is happy to go to Melbourne if you give us your first two draft picks come into play.
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I don't think that's how it works... unless it's completely different to every other sporting draft in the world.
Happens every year in the AFL, if a deal can't be reached or a player isn't wanted he can try his luck in the draft.
Where did you get that? Who said anything about only from the 20's?
NYC will be gone in its current format at the end of 2016 anyway so any draft won't involve NYC as it currently stands.
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There was a question mark so thanks for clearing it up in that special little way only you could, mate.
Even so, the top 80 players wouldn't even be worth it! Let alone the next few best. Canberra Raiders first pick, Donald Smith from the Toowoomba Allwhites! Whoopdee fucking doo.
It wasn't really a question, you mocked the idea based on your wrong assumption so you'd already decided you knew.
In further attempts to mock the idea your short sightedness has actually provided the perfect segway to argue for a draft.
Let's look at your scenario?
Instead of Donald Smith from All-Whites let's use a real player....
All Whites had a guy called J.Thurston from St.Mary's in Toowoomba playing for them when he was in Grade 11 and Grand 12.
Let's say no club had picked him up yet or wanted him which is true-and then the Raiders picked him in the draft- do you think over the last 14 years Raiders fans would be saying 'whoopee do?'
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