Hawthorn Andrew Newbold supports a lottery system for the AFL draft. Source: Herald Sun
CLUB presidents Andrew Newbold and Peter Gordon want the AFL to introduce a lottery draft to eliminate any possibility of tanking.
Hawthorn president Newbold said a lottery should be implemented alongside a reward scheme for clubs finishing higher on the ladder.
"The lottery system is the way to go," Newbold said.
"We need to give fans the confidence that when their team runs out they're actually trying to win."
Gordon, the Western Bulldogs president, supports the first four picks in each round of the national draft being randomly allocated to the bottom four clubs.
But those views were not backed by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, nor Carlton counterpart Stephen Kernahan.
McGuire said winning the wooden spoon again needed to become an "ignoble act" rather than "the first step on the road to recovery".
Similar to the NBA in America, an AFL lottery draft could see teams bracketed in groups of three or four to determine draft order.
If it were in place last year, Greater Western Sydney, Gold Coast, Melbourne or the Bulldogs would have had equal chance of receiving pick one in the draft.
"The lottery aspect should be limited to the four or five bottom teams each year and then revert to the existing ranking system," Gordon said. "This might solve the potential for tanking allegations to arise again."
Newbold agreed.
"As soon as you don't have confidence that you're team is trying to win you've got the potential to lose your fan base," he said. "I'm a strong supporter of the lottery system, as well as the compensation idea that you get paid more the higher you finish."
But McGuire and Kernahan are happy for the status quo to remain now the priority pick has been abolished.
McGuire said: "My position on it is the team that finishes on the bottom should get the first pick. We want to have an uncompromised draft."
Kernahan agreed: "Let's leave the system as it is and the AFL can review that in the next couple of years."
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