Originally Posted by
liz
You have to use a pick to select a player. So if you just use a single pick to match a bid, that pick has to be exhausted. It can't just be reassigned to later in the draft.
That said, I read a comment on another forum from someone who suggested that if there is excess points value from matching with a single bid, that difference isn't entirely lost. However, they were vague about what happens with it.
In practice, I don't think this has happened, and probably won't happen now that picks can be traded on draft night. If GWS go into the draft with pick 6 and a bid comes at 4 or 5, they can just trade backwards. Clubs have shown they value very high draft picks more than the value assigned by the AFL points table, so they won't have difficulty finding a buyer for it who will give them more than the points value for pick 6. They will then exhaust the earliest of the picks they receive on matching a Green bid, and any residual value from the later picks required will still have picks to which to attach the value.
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