Are we going back to zones??

[Capper]

A radical AFL proposal to introduce club-branded academies and zones across the competition looks certain to be the headline act emerging from Gillon McLachlan's national review of the game.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/back-to-the-future-in-radical-zone-plan-20150604-ghh30v.html

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said on Fox Footy on Tuesday night that having pushed for all clubs to share access to those northern academies, he now accepted that each club should be given the same opportunity to attract and develop talent within its own specified zone.

[Big Mac]

I don't like this

[Capper]

I don't like this

Why?

[Ziplock]

I don't like this

Why?

the northern academies as there to try to foster and develop talent in kids who otherwise probably wouldn't have played AFL in a non-dominant state. The zoning was done away with for really good reasons- such as places with higher populations would have access to more players/talent... even if you equalised the raw numbers, you'd probably still have socio-economic differences causing discrepancies.

I can't see bringing back zones as anything but a step away from equal opportunities for clubs.