Quote Originally Posted by ugg View Post
Going with the precedent of Joe Daniher choosing the Bombers over us, I imagine how it will work is that the player will nominate before the draft which club he wishes to accept the nomination from. Then the bidding will only be allowed by that club.
Yes that's what the article is saying - and that's probably right. But Daniher was choosing between two F/S choices where we know the player has the right to choose (or simply elect to go into the normal draft). I was speculating that a player does not have the right to elect not to be chosen by an academy club, so an academy club would get first draft right to him.

For example, did Mills have the right to elect NOT to be drafted through the discount system by the Swans last year? If he had been an eligible F/S player he would have had that right.