Which players running around were drafted through the father/son rule?

Question

And can someone give a brief idea what this rule is - does it mean they don't have to go through the draft?

Answer 1

here's the full list of current players who were drafted under the father/son rule:

2007:

Darcy Daniher (Ess)

Adam Donohue (Geel)

Jaxson Barham (Coll)

2006:

Josh Kennedy (Haw)

Tom Hawkins (Geel)

2005:

Travis Tuck (Haw)

Jay Neagle (Ess)

2004:

Travis Cloke (Coll)

Luke Blackwell (Carl)

2003:

Chris A. Johnson (Melb)

Mark Blake (Geel)

Brett Peake (Frem)

Heath Shaw (Coll)

2002:

Sean Dempster (Syd, traded to StK)

Tim Callan (Geel, traded to WB)

Jobe Watson (Ess)

Brett Ebert (PA)

Cameron Cloke (Coll, traded to Carl)

2001:

Gary Ablett (Geel)

Jarrad Waite (Carl)

2000:

None still playing.

1999:

Rhyce Shaw (Coll)

Jonathan Brown (Bris)

1998:

Nick Davis (Coll, traded to Syd)

1997:

Matthew Scarlett (Geel)

1995:

Joel Bowden (Rich)

1992:

Matthew Richardson (Rich)

Dustin Fletcher (Ess)

Answer 2

very good jam man you forgot one

Barham from the pies aswell

Answer 3

Gary Ablett

Nathan Ablett

Dustin Fletcher

Ben Cousins

Luke Darcy

Lance Whitnall

Matthew Scarlett

Joel Bowden

Nick Davis

Tom Hawkins

Heath Shaw

Rhyce Shaw

Cameron Cloke

Jason Cloke

Travis Tuck

Brett Ebert

Ben Cousins was drafted in 1995 by the West Coast Eagles under the father-son rule, as his father Bryan (a star player himself in the local West Australian Football League competition) had played 67 games for the Geelong Football Club in the then-VFL. This clause allowed him to choose between playing for the Geelong Cats, the newly formed Fremantle Dockers and the West Coast Eagles. The prospect of remaining in his hometown of Perth led Cousins to opt for the Eagles.

Answer 4

good?! looks like he just copied it from somewhere... but still the effort is there...

there's also this year's ones...

Darcy Daniher

and 2 others who I forget...

I think Jesse Smith of North Melbourne was a father/son and I would say Jobe Watson for Essendon as well.

there are quite a few players.

Answer 5

Tom Hawkins

Travis Cloke

Heath Shaw

Brett Ebert

Cameron Cloke

Gary Ablett, Jr.

Jason Cloke

Rhyce Shaw

Jonathan Brown

Nick Davis

Matthew Scarlett

Joel Bowden

Matthew Richardson

Dustin Fletcher

The current Father-Son Rule allows clubs nominate to select an eligible player instead of using the allocated third round pick in the National Draft. Subsequent selections are made in place of a second, first and fourth round choices respectively.

The eligibility of players differs depending upon the home-state of the team making the selection. The basic rule, as applied to Victorian clubs, is that each can select any player whose father played a minimum of 100 senior games for the side. Meanwhile, the two interstate clubs with historic links to Victorian Football League teams, the Brisbane Lions and the Sydney Swans, can choose the sons of players who have appeared 100 times for either themselves or their predecessors, the Fitzroy Lions and Brisbane Bears or the South Melbourne Football Club respectively. Finally, West Australian and South Australian teams have a modified rule in place, valid until the club has been in the AFL for 20 years, with eligibility to be determined by a certain number of games played for specific sides in state league, specifically:

Until 2007, the West Coast Eagles can select any player whose father has made 150 WAFL appearances for Claremont, East Perth, West Perth or Subiaco.

Until 2010, Adelaide can select any player whose father made 200 SANFL appearances prior to 1990 for South Adelaide, Norwood, Glenelg or Sturt.

Until 2015, Fremantle can select any player whose father has made 150 WAFL appearances for East Fremantle, South Fremantle, Perth or Swan Districts.

Until 2017, Port Adelaide can select any player whose father has made 200 SANFL appearances for the Port Adelaide Magpies, North Adelaide, West Adelaide, Central District, Woodville or West Torrens.

Clubs do not have to exercise the father-son options, and players can select not to be picked in this way, or in the case of qualifying for more than one team, they can choose which they join. For example, despite his father, John, appearing 214 times for the Fitzroy Football Club, Marc Murphy declined to sign with the Brisbane Lions, and was instead taken by Carlton as the first pick in the 2005 National Draft.

In 2007 the AFL established a bidding system to determine which draft pick a club must give up to secure the potential recruit under the Father-son rule. Under the changes, every club in the competition nominates the pick they would use to select the player in question, and the club wishing to use the father/son rule must use its next available pick after the lowest nominal pick by other clubs to secure the player. In the case of the 2006 draft's highest profile Father-Son recruit, Tom Hawkins, the new concept would have likely seen Geelong faced with the option of either using a first, rather than third, round selection or lose him to a rival that would.