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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 3458921, member: 8423"] The Lions and Broncs’ situations are like chalk and cheese though. If a kid in the AFL is homesick or whatever, you’ve got until trade period to convince them otherwise, so this is likely at least 11 months for draftees. Plus if the kid leaves, you get compensation either via trade or compensation draft picks. So whatever the case, you might not win out of it but you get something North Melbourne had exactly this issue this year with Jason Horne-Francis, last year’s number 1 pick. They had 12 months to convince him to stay and although they weren’t successful, they got several very high draft picks in return. How does any of that compare to the NRL’s free for all and lack of anything whatsoever going to the team that loses the player? And given there is no draft or trade period? If this big baby keeps throwing mud, what recourse do the Broncs have? You haven’t got 11 months to convince him otherwise as if you grant a release because he whinges enough, it is immediate. The NRL, unlike the AFL, are gutless and just don’t want to get involved because it’s too hard. The two situations are almost nothing alike. [/QUOTE]

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