AFL Trade Period: Live updates, news and every deal from day 3
The Eagles have been handed pick two for losing their captain, but it could be the last time we see a pick so high handed out. Plus, Clayton Oliver has made his choice. Recap day three here.
West Coast has collected the No.2 overall draft pick for allowing captain Oscar Allen to depart for Brisbane in what could end up as the last free agency compensation pick to land so early in the draft.
Allen joins the Lions as a high-profile key forward who will be paid around $900,000 in a deal that triggered band one compensation.
Brisbane midfielder Dev Robertson will also join the Eagles as midfield depth while Richmond’s Tylar Young will also be traded to West Coast on a three-year deal.
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The Herald Sun reported earlier this year the AFL is open to changes to the free agency compensation system that would mean clubs do not get compensation so high in the draft.
The league could change its compensation formula so the best possible pick is at pick five or as a mid first-round pick or even at the end of the first round of the draft.
The league is making changes that will return to the draft to a more pure form that allows clubs to rebuild quickly.
For West Coast the No.2 overall pick came on a day when the club also brought in Lions mid-sized defender Brandon Starcevich in a trade to preserve the Allen compensation.
That deal came with the Eagles using the end-of-first-round pick handed to them by the AFL as part of a special assistance package.
The Eagles draft hand is now pick one, two, 13, 34, 38, 53 and 58.
They could end up splitting one of those early draft picks, with the Dons eager to get up the order to secure potential No.1 overall pick Willem Duurmsa.
Starcevich has clauses in his four-year contract that mean he will secure a fifth year if he stays injury-free after two seasons and then a sixth year if he stays injury free for three seasons.
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Originally published as AFL Trade Period: Live updates, news and every deal from day 3
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