SA Footy

Can someone please confirm this for me... if a player is drafted a certain amount of money is paid to his league club and a also a smaller sum to his local club... is that right? more interested if an amount is paid to the amatuer club if the player happens to be registed to one at the time of being drafted

I know the SANFL club gets paid some money but not sure about the local club.

There is a system that money is sent to clubs that have developed players before they are drafted with some going back to feeder clubs.
The AFL website may give details or if in the case of a local amateur club they should be in touch with their associated SANFL club.

This information is last year's so it may have changed but:

. when a player is drafted, the SANFL club receives $16,000 of which $3,200 goes to the player's original association. The association keeps $960, $1,280 goes to the player's original club and $960 goes towards zone development.

. when a player plays his first AFL game, the SANFL club receives another $16,000 of which $3,200 goes to the player's original association. The association keeps $960, $1,280 goes to the player's original club and $960 goes towards zone development.

. when a player plays his 10th AFL game, the SANFL club receives $12,500 of which $2,500 goes to the original association. The association keeps $750, $1,000 goes to the original club and $750 goes to the zone.

. if a player is retained on an AFL list for a second year, the SANFL club receives $12,500 of which $2,500 goes to the original association. The association keeps $750, $1,000 goes to the original club and $750 goes to the zone.

NOTE: When a player joins a SANFL club, the SANFL club pays the original club $2.000 once that player has played 25 games. The player has 3 years in which to play those 25 games. Also, the original club only qualifies for the payment if the player has played at least 20 games for that club in between the years that they turn 13 and 19 (so they have 7 years to play at least 20 games).

I don't think a player can be drafted from outside the SANFL in SA can they?

Gilly was pretty much on the mark there, but the system has its loopholes... I can recall our club having a hell of a time trying to get money from Norwood for Joel Patfull, and not sure whether we even got it in the end....

Surely they could be drafted from outside the SANFL, what about Nick Daffy who played for Richmond. Didn't he get drafted from Mount Gambier.

kingrooster wrote:Surely they could be drafted from outside the SANFL, what about Nick Daffy who played for Richmond. Didn't he get drafted from Mount Gambier.

You're right. He was drafted from North Gambier in 1991.

Gilly/Kingrooster the rules have subsequently been changed. You have to be registered with SANFL Club and have to play at least 1 game for the club during the year to be eligble to be drafted. well at least im pretty sure anyway

Pretty sure Heuskes was drafted from Gepps Cross years ago??

I'm not sure that still exists...my view was that you had to be involved in a SANFL club and registered to a particular club to be able to nominate for AFL drafts and be picked up by AFL clubs.

I stand corrected...history proves me wrong, though Heuskes and Daffy were both recruited years ago...I think this scenario may have changed over time.

TigerBoss wrote:I don't think a player can be drafted from outside the SANFL in SA can they?

CORRECT!

The rules are such that to be eligable for the draft you have to have played at least one game of either 17's,19's, Ressis or League. With Ruseling, Collingwood hide him at his Westminster school for the whole year except for one U19's match where ruseling sat one the bench for 100% of the game so that no scouts who identify him!

TB right again!!!

This has been a gerat week for being proven correct.

rubbers0ul wrote:

TigerBoss wrote:I don't think a player can be drafted from outside the SANFL in SA can they?

CORRECT!

The rules are such that to be eligable for the draft you have to have played at least one game of either 17's,19's, Ressis or League. With Ruseling, Collingwood hide him at his Westminster school for the whole year except for one U19's match where ruseling sat one the bench for 100% of the game so that no scouts who identify him!

You're partly right. Rusling played a game for West Reserves, not Under 19's. He played the game, didn't sit on the bench all day.

I know that when Daffy and Matthew Clarke were drafted by Richmond from Mt Gambier, no South Australian footballers could be drafted that year (Crows had a moratorium on all SANFL footballers), but Richmond got around that because both players were registered in the Borders League which is classified as a Victorian league. I thought Heuskes played some underage games at Norwood?