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In the 2028 and 2029 drafts, Tasmania will have picks 5 and 9 and the first selection of every round, but Pick 5 has to be traded in both years (can be rolled forward in 2028).<\/p>\n
The Devils will have a $5 million sign-on bonus outside the salary cap in their first two years to try and lure stars from other clubs, with a maximum spend of $3 million in each season.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll have the ability to sign 18 out-of-contract players around the competition in 2027 and 2028, with a maximum of one player per club.<\/p>\n
Eagles reconsidering Starcevich contract | 01:06<\/p>\n
Teams that lose players will get a \u2018floating\u2019 compensation pick in the year of their choosing.<\/p>\n
In other key allowances, Tasmania will have extra list spots including up to 48 players in years two, three and four, before returning to 44 players by year six.<\/p>\n
The Devils will have a Tasmanian Academy similar to the Northern Academy model, with the ability to pre-list eligible players for the first four years.<\/p>\n
Petracca tours Adelaide amid trade links | 01:52<\/p>\n
The club will be able to pre-list Tasmanian pathway players two years out from its 2028 AFL entry year and have access to the father-son rule for players whose fathers were born in Tasmania and played at least 100 AFL games.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll also be able to pre-list 17-year old players spread across two years and have two draft selections in two 17-year old mini drafts, with the requirement for those selections to be traded.<\/p>\n
The AFL Commission is also set to confirm changes to the bidding system from the 2026 draft following a review of the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n
A cap on the number of picks used to match a bid, the points value required to match a bid (including removal of discounts) and allowable points deficit are among the changes being considered.<\/p>\n
Recruiting gurus Todd Patterson and Derek Hine are heading up Tasmania\u2019s list management.<\/p>\n
Last month a report from the Tasmanian Planning Commission recommended against a new stadium being built, which is a condition from the AFL to grand the Devils the league\u2019s 19th license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmania will be required to trade six of its 11 first-round draft picks among a juicy haul over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[116611,64,63,689,55,15824,684,49879,15832,110627,116613,2105,9130,116616,116614,24309,116612,15819,116606,7198,116605,677,116608,116618,116610,116615,116297,53037,85,2801,116607,116617,100809,66197,116609],"class_list":["post-181679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allowable-points-deficit","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australian-football-league-commission","tag-ben-cotton","tag-devonport","tag-draft-picks","tag-first-round-draft","tag-forced-trades","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-key-list-allowances","tag-list-concessions","tag-list-management","tag-list-rules","tag-list-spots","tag-mega-draft-haul","tag-michael-willson","tag-northern-academy","tag-oceania","tag-paranaple-convention-centre","tag-pathway-players","tag-pre-list-eligible-players","tag-sign-on-bonus","tag-special-assistance-package","tag-spending-spree","tag-sports","tag-tasmania","tag-tasmania-football-club-launch","tag-tasmanian-academy","tag-tasmanian-planning-commission","tag-todd-patterson","tag-uncontracted-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}