David King has flagged a unique and radical idea that will allow AFL clubs to be able to top up their list at any point of the season.
King doesn't believe that the mid-season trade period is the right road the AFL should head down, believing that by dumping the constraints placed on the sizes of lists will help clubs mould and shape their own destiny.
This change will help clubs, like Sydney and Richmond, who are battling with circumstances limiting their list spots after the retirement of Kurt Tippet and Ben Griffiths after the final list lodgment in November.
King revealed what he would like to see on SEN's Whateley.
“I don’t like players changing clubs in season,” King told SEN’s Whateley.
“I don’t think that is something we should be looking at.
“I don’t like how we restrict clubs to a certain number on their list. Why can’t a club who has lost all their ruckmen through the course of a preseason and the early part of the season go to the feeder competitions and tack another player on?
“Does that disrupt the feeder competitions? Absolutely and they would be financially rewarded, or some sort of solution.
“I don’t know why we have a restriction on list numbers. You have got x-amount to spend every year and you go as hard as you like allocating that money.
“Whether you have 38 on the list, 42 on the list or 50. It just becomes a man management issue for each club.
“You are only going to do that if you have had injuries. You’re not going to upset those who are currently on the list.”
With a meeting scheduled for next Thursday at AFL house in regards to this issue, do you think the AFL will take into account David King's idea?
