WESTERN Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has called on the AFL to keep the NAB AFL Draft order intact, saying he would be "disappointed" if Carlton and Gold Coast received priority picks immediately after their first selections.

The Dogs hold pick No.6 as things stand, but risk being bumped back should the AFL elect to hand the Blues and the Suns additional picks at the start of the draft.

Speculation around the placement of priority picks has suggested that the struggling Carlton and Gold Coast could collectively hold the first five selections at the draft.

Such a move would see teams such as the Bulldogs' draft position fall as far as four picks.

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However, Beveridge has warned against the AFL handing out early priority picks, calling for the League to instead award them later in the order or with clauses around how they are used.

"We'll be pretty disappointed if these compensation picks come in before us in the draft, because our demographic as far as youth versus mature age isn't dissimilar," Beveridge said.

"We feel like our players are in an environment and program where they can really blossom and flourish, but we are where we are on the ladder and we're building again and who knows how far away that is.

"Hopefully if there's compensation there, they're either at the back-end of the first round or there's some kind of caveat on it where you need to trade it out for mature-age (players)."

Beveridge already expects the Dogs to be bumped back at least one place, given the Suns are likely to receive another selection as compensation for departing free agent Tom Lynch.

"We're anticipating there will be an extra one between us and the first pick because of Lynch," Beveridge said.

"Other than that, I'd hope there's nothing fresh in there between us and Lynch. But that's up to the AFL, it'll all be well considered.

"We saw today, Carlton is a pretty young team and I think they would have been younger and less experienced than us, but they almost beat us."

Carlton coach Brendon Bolton was reluctant to elaborate on where the club sits on requesting a priority pick, saying the Blues would focus their attentions on that after their season finishes next week.

"I've answered this a little bit and I'm really cognisant of the time in which I need to answer these questions, because we're still in the season," Bolton said.

"I don't want to be distracted on what's coming. We need to go and deliver against Adelaide this weekend.

"We're just open-minded as to what that looks like, that conversation at the end of the year, that's our take at the moment.

"I don't really want to elaborate on that because it distracts players, it distracts me, and it distracts coaches. We've just got to dig in for another week and then see where that's at."