With the NFL draft on today, you can bet any amount of money someone will link it back to the NRL and suggest a draft system here.
To answer the question up front; no, I can't see a draft system working in Australia. Everything would have to be restructured and quite honestly we don't have the universities or tafes to produce a college-like system in the US.
BUT ... if there was a draft on, say, Monday evening. Who would go well?
Just to set some rules, let's say every contract is voided. A new season starts in a month and all contracts are four-year deals worth the same amount of money. Reverse finishing order from last year's regular season. I know it's not ideal but it's purely a fantasy.
Of course we could argue for hours (see you in the comments) on the merits of a draft and where players would be drafted at which position and why.
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Daly Cherry-Evans
How did DCE fall so far? WHY has a player of his talents been allowed to drop to Craig Bellamy and the Storm? Yikes, this would be frightening. At 32 there is a degree of risk here, and also explains the drop, however DCE for three years at the Storm would surely lead to a title. Bellamy would also use DCE to set the club up for the next decade by mentoring a young star that no one else would ever have heard of.
Hell no to Latrell Mitchell.
The King every day over Latrell.
What a stupid article