Collingwood’s hopes of drafting father-sons Josh Daicos and Callum Brown hit by compensation picks

COLLINGWOOD’S hopes of drafting father-son prospects Josh Daicos and Callum Brown are being weakened by the AFL handing out compensation picks.

Collingwood father-son prospect Callum Brown. Picture: Mark Dadswell

COLLINGWOOD’S hopes of drafting father-son prospects Josh Daicos and Callum Brown are being weakened by the AFL handing out compensation picks.

The insertion of picks into the draft order is effectively draining the bank of draft points at every club.

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The Herald Sun has learnt of widespread frustration among recruiters, ­particularly at clubs wanting to draft academy and father-son prospects this year.

The Magpies appear the club with the most to lose, given they have two father-son prospects and a lean draft hand.

“The system doesn’t work. It’s not logical,” one club chief said.

“Through no fault of (their) own, suddenly they might need to find extra picks.”

Josh Daicos hopes to get to Collingwood as a father-son. Picture: Steve Tanner

The Pies finished the season with picks 25, 43 and 61 — equivalent to 1269 draft points.

But the league has since fed four draft picks into the ­system.

Richmond was awarded No.26 for Ty Vickery, North Melbourne No.32 for Daniel Wells and Fremantle No.23 for Chris Mayne.

Brisbane Lions were also gifted a priority pick, No.19.

Collingwood’s picks have been bumped, dropping their points tally to 1083 — a loss of 186.

The Magpies are set to nominate Daicos and Brown, but the players last week told the Herald Sun they were no draft certainties.

If an early bid comes for ­either on draft night, it is ­unlikely the Pies could afford both.

Chris Mayne has signed with Collingwood but the compensation pick handed to Fremantle has ironically impacted on the Pies’ ability to draft their father-son prospects.

GWS and Gold Coast have multiple academy stars they can draft this year, but boast the strongest draft hands.

One solution raised was to not attach any draft points to picks artificially fed into the order.

But that is unlikely to work, given ­comp­ensation and priority picks can be on-traded by clubs.

This flaw is the latest concern from clubs over the system.

In 2015, clubs exploited a loophole where they could rise up the order by trading multiple late picks to the Giants for a prized earlier selection.

Collingwood did not progress on talks with the Western Bulldogs yesterday, but is hoping to exchange full-forward Travis Cloke for a draft pick carrying points.