Patrick Smith Blasts Carlton

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Rules can be changed and new ones can be made for individual clubs. Look what they did to the Swans with their trade ban. It doesn't have to be called a "Priority Pick", it can be called "Compensation for James Frawley" or "Equalisation for Free Agents and Academy players going to the top clubs".

I don't want us to rely on this but we need something to undo all the damage that has been done. So I would like to see us apply to the AFL for a "Hughes & Rogers sympathy pick".

I was thinking the other day that there must be a dark low place to which a club can descend that it is impossible to recover from under the present AFL rules. In other words, the club becomes completely unviable. I don't know whether we are anywhere near that, Fatprick Smith thinks we are, but surely the AFL would then need to make the call to either turn off the life support or to apply emergency intensive resuscitation? I obviously don't want to see either of those outcomes unless we were a true basket case, and this year will tell us a lot about that come draft and trade time.