THE BRISBANE Lions are hopeful they will still be able to draft up to two academy players every year under a likely new bidding system that will force them to pay closer to market value for local talent.

Midfielder Ben Keays, originally a Victorian who moved to Brisbane when he was 12, and athletic tall forward Eric Hipwood shape as the most likely Lions' academies prospects this season.

The AFL Commission will meet on Tuesday, where it is expected to discuss the proposed revised bidding system for father-son and northern academy players.

While a decision on whether to implement it in 2015 could come at the meeting, the Commission may also require longer to deliberate on the complex and points-based bidding system.

Lions chief executive Greg Swann said the club would like a speedy resolution so it can properly begin planning for how its academy prospects may be valued in the sliding scale system.

Clubs around the competition have supported the idea to integrate bidding as a live element of draft night, which Swann said meant the Lions need to be very clear on where they rank their academy players against the rest of the pool.

"It will be challenging if they do live bidding on the night, and what you do at the time if somebody's there who you rate highly and you've also got your academy kid. That's going to be interesting for us," Swann told AFL.com.au.

"We'll just have to be very specific and very definite as to where and how much value we place on these kids, so it places a bit more onus on our recruiters to do that. We'll certainly err on the side of picking the academy kids where we can."

Each club provided feedback to the AFL on the proposed bidding system after it was presented in January.

The Lions put forward the option where clubs needed to match points only for bids that come in the first two rounds of the draft. Bids beyond that point, they suggested, would only need to be matched by the nominating club's next pick.

Swann said the Lions would continue to draft academy players as they aim to add more Queensland products to their list. 

Ben Keays and Eric Hipwood celebrate a goal for the NAB AFL Academy against the Northern Blues

"If they're good enough we'd certainly like to beef up the Queensland component of our list. I think it's about 25 per cent at the moment, and most other clubs run at about 70 per cent local talent, and we'd love to get to that stage," Swann said.

"It's going to take some time but if we can do that then we'll eliminate a whole lot of other things. But having said all of that, they've still got to be good enough to play. It doesn't matter where they come from.

"If we get one or two a year that would be a good result, and especially if we get a few more going into the pool. It's a tough market up north competing for players with other codes."

As part of the original proposal, the League put forward a 25 per cent points discount for clubs with academy players and 15 per cent for father-son prospects.

It was included to encourage clubs to continue to invest in academies and maintain father-son traditions, but the Lions pushed for a greater academy discount, saying the cases were not comparable.

Despite that view, it is understood the AFL executive's recommendation to the Commission is likely to see an equal discount for father-son and academy players, possibly at 20 per cent each.

Keays has enjoyed a consistent start to the year, and on Saturday gathered 43 disposals and 12 clearances for Queensland's TAC Cup side.

That followed solid displays in two games for the NAB AFL Academy against VFL teams earlier this month, and a place in last year's Under-18 All Australian team as a 17-year-old.