2012 AFL National Draft completed

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2012 AFL National Draft completed

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Thursday, November 22 2012 @ 09:37 pm ACDT

re players from QLD, NSW and NT in particular - the zone selections processes around the Giants and Suns in particular has excluded or threatened to exclude a lot of the talent from the main draft. (my understanding of it is limited so a bit of a google has given me as below)

Guys like Jed Anderson and Jack Neade from NT are in the GWS NT 'zone', and 3 mentioned in particular from QLD were Jordan Burke, Andrew Boston and the one who was drafted in Clay Cameron were in the Suns zone. This is the last year of the Suns having QLD as a zone - and perhaps other clubs didn't focus too much on QLD talent.

I think the Suns were permitted 5 zone picks pre the draft for each of 2010,2011,2012. Last year they plucked out Alex Sexton and Jackson Allen and in their first season Zac Smith was one.

The AFL website reported back on Oct 4 :

As part of its list establishment rules, GWS has priority access to players from the Northern Territory until next year with Anderson and Neade, who have both received All Australian honours in the past two years, the pick of this crop.

"We feel as though they're quite capable to be on our list," Silvagni said of the pair.

"At this stage we're thinking that they are going to be on our list, but anything can happen."

You'd hope that QLD based clubs would lean to giving these guys a chance as rookies. However, the Suns in particular had to reduce their list from 46 to 42 for season 2013. Burke and Cameron in particular I gather did pre-season with the Suns and have played in the NEAFL side. Burke as a 'tall', may be retained in the NEAFL season and given a chance to develop.

However, a young fellow like Aliir Aliier from QLD was considered a possible late draft or rookie draft chance - and as a raw young ruckman the trend seems to have been to not draft such players.

THe problem though is this list trimming timeline (this article from May 2009 is a review of the Suns special draft rules):

2011 - 48 senior list, nine rookies with $1m TPP extra allowance;
2012 - 46 senior list, nine rookies with $800k TPP extra allowance;
2013 - 42 senior list, nine rookies with $600k TPP extra allowance;
2014 - 40 senior list, nine rookies with $400k TPP extra allowance;
2015 - 38 senior list, nine rookies in line with other AFL clubs.

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The Swans did upgrade rookie Harry Cunningham to the primary list - he's from Turvey Park (David 'fang' Murphy territory). Granted - not breaking new ground there.

There's also from NSW/Sydney the tail end flow on effect from the NSW Scholarship program that had locked away a lot of NSW talent - and the giant ruckman at Collingwood is one (Witts), and we've seen guys like Will Sierakowski (Haw to NM) and Tom Young (Coll to WBG) as other NSW scholarship 'graduates' who are still around the fringes of the system.

It will be interesting to see how the NSW-Sydney talent pathway progresses moving forward with the academy structure in place.

I reckon it'd be nice if clubs could have an additional supp list or extended rookie program and run reserves again!!!!! However - for NSW and QLD boys getting at least into the pathway - you really do need to cast an eye to the NEAFL where there are 4 AFL 'reserves' sides playing.

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