Coaches Chris Scott and Ross Lyon have united to blast the AFL’s assistance package given to North Melbourne, with the handout labelled “blatant manipulation”.
where they agreed the decision to hand the Roos an additional first round selection this year and two more end of first round selections next year – on top of having two additional rookie spots – was “too much”.
Watch Fox Footy’s massive Grand Final Day coverage on Kayo including the Grand Final Breakfast and Longest Kick competition, plus analysis from the best team in the business.“There is a mechanism of equalisation within the competition already. If you finish second last, you get second pick in the draft.“The AFL pretty quickly has to get to the point in my view where they just get out of the way and let the system operate without this blatant manipulation.
“They’ve got so many top five picks now. The midfielders they’ve got – what the AFL can’t do in three years is go: ‘Now all of a sudden you’ve got a dominant midfield because we gave you all these picks and no, we are going to take something away.’ They never take away.
“Clarko is a genius because that Hawthorn team was built really off Hodge pick one, Franklin pick four, Roughead pick two … they were priority picks. You get that lag and all of a sudden it goes bang!” Scott lamented.
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