Hawthorn could be left with a mid-20s draft pick if Lance Franklin leaves the club at th end of the year. Source: Herald Sun
THE AFL has confirmed it is yet to set the compensation criteria for free agency this year, which could result in Hawthorn being handed only a mid-20s draft pick if Lance "Buddy" Franklin leaves at the end of the year.
The game's most exciting player is assessing the market, and under last year's formula Hawthorn would attract a mid-first round pick as compensation.
Hawthorn has conceded privately that Franklin is effectively an unrestricted free agent because it does not have the salary cap room to match an offer of more than $1 million.
But if he does leave, there is no certainty about whether the Hawks would get even the pick No.13 that St Kilda received for Brendon Goddard.
Just as the Saints did not match Essendon's offer for Goddard, the Hawks cannot hope to match about $1.2 million a year for Franklin.
In coming weeks the AFL will ask clubs for feedback on last year's first free agency period, and comprehensive changes are possible.
That includes the length of the period, the overlap between free agency and the trade period, and potentially the compensation formula.
Some clubs already have lobbied the AFL for a system under which the maximum compensation for a free agent would be a pick at the end of the first round.
Others believe there should be no compensation for free agents, or only for restricted free agents.
Hawthorn might feel aggrieved that the compensation formula could change with the year already under way and the NAB Cup only nine days away.
It was frustrated last year to receive only pick No.68 when Clinton Young left for Collingwood, and nothing when Tom Murphy landed on the Gold Coast.
AFL spokesman Patrick Keane said yesterday said several issues had to be decided before the free agency period in October.
"In the next month or so we will write to all clubs for feedback and have a decision early in the season," Keane said.
"We have a formula at the moment that applied to restricted and unrestricted free agency, so we will ask clubs for feedback about that, the same as we do with the tribunal and the laws of the game. After we receive the feedback we will have a decision."
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