COLLINGWOOD faces going into a draft points deficit this year after trading out its first pick last season and with a very early bid on father-son Nick Daicos looming.

The Magpies swapped their future first-round selection to Greater Western Sydney in a live draft trade last season in exchange for picks 24, 30 and a 2021 fourth-round pick.

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The club made the move because their first selection was expected to be swallowed up by matching a bid on Daicos, who has exploded into the 2021 draft season with a series of best-on-ground performances while the Magpies start their campaign 1-5. The move also allowed Collingwood to make a bigger imprint on last year's draft, where it used four top-30 selections.

Nick Daicos in action during the Chargers' NAB League match in April. Picture: AFL Photos

On this year's indicative draft order the Pies' selection – now in the hands of the Giants – currently sits at No.2 overall. The Magpies also traded out their round two pick to Hawthorn but got one back from the Western Bulldogs, meaning at this stage their first selection at the draft is No.37. 

The Pies currently hold four picks – No.37, 39, 47 and 50 – which are worth points in the draft value index used to match bids on Academy and father-son players. It gives them a total of 1518 draft points.

Under the bidding system, if a club places a bid on Daicos – the son of Collingwood legend Peter and brother of emerging midfielder Josh – at No.1, the Pies would need to find 2400 points to match it and make him a Magpie after the 20 per cent discount is applied.

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If the bid comes at pick No.2, they would need to tally 2014 points after the discount. The Magpies could look to bring in more picks (for points) during this year's exchange period and again have deals set up for draft night if they require more points, or they could match with fewer points and then go into points deficit to take Daicos, who is widely being viewed as the best player in the 2021 crop.

A points deficit on a first-round pick would mean their first pick for 2022 is pushed back enough spots under the value index to the value of the leftover points. This happened last year, when Fremantle went into a 245-point deficit in 2019 for matching a bid on NGA player Liam Henry.

It meant their first-round pick for the following season (2020) slid back several spots to make up the deficit points. 

The points situation does not put into jeopardy Collingwood's capacity to draft Daicos, with the classy midfielder destined to continue his family's history at the club. It just means that if the Magpies don't bring in extra points for Daicos this year, then their first pick next year will be impacted.  

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The AFL looked set to slash the discount after starting a review on it at the end of 2019 but the COVID-19 changes to the game last season, plus the overall winding back of the Next Generation Academy, saw those plans put off.

Daicos started the NAB League season with three best-on-ground games, averaging 30 disposals and booting eight goals, before being the NAB AFL Academy's best player in its defeat to Geelong's VFL side on Saturday with 26 disposals.

ROUND ONE
1 North Melbourne
2 GWS Giants (tied to Collingwood)
3 St Kilda
4 Hawthorn
5 GWS Giants
6 Carlton
7 Essendon
8 Gold Coast
9 West Coast
10 Adelaide
11 Brisbane
12 Richmond
13 Fremantle
14 Sydney
15 Richmond (tied Geelong)
16 Port Adelaide
17 Brisbane (tied to Melbourne)
18 Western Bulldogs

 

ROUND TWO
19 Gold Coast (part of assistance package in 2019)
20 North Melbourne
21 Hawthorn (tied to Collingwood)
22 Richmond (tied to St Kilda)
23 Hawthorn
24 Geelong (tied to GWS Giants)
25 Carlton
26 Geelong (tied to Essendon)
27 Gold Coast
28 West Coast
29 Adelaide
30 Melbourne (tied to Brisbane)
31 Richmond
32 Fremantle
33 Sydney
34 Geelong
35 West Coast (tied to Port Adelaide)
36 Adelaide (tied to Melbourne)
37 Collingwood (tied to Western Bulldogs)

 

ROUND THREE
38 North Melbourne
39 Collingwood
40 St Kilda
41 Melbourne (tied to Hawthorn)
42 GWS Giants
43 Gold Coast (tied to Carlton)
44 Essendon
45 Richmond (tied to Gold Coast)
46 Brisbane (tied to West Coast)
47 Collingwood (tied to Adelaide)
48 Brisbane
49 Richmond
50 Collingwood (tied to Fremantle)
51 West Coast (tied to Sydney)
52 Geelong
53 Essendon (tied to Port Adelaide)
54 Gold Coast (tied to Melbourne)
55 Melbourne (tied to the Western Bulldogs)

 

ROUND FOUR
56 Hawthorn (tied to North Melbourne)
57 Brisbane (tied to Collingwood)
58 St Kilda
59 Port Adelaide (tied to Hawthorn)
60 GWS Giants
61 Carlton
62 Gold Coast (tied to Essendon)
63 Gold Coast
64 West Coast
65 Adelaide
66 North Melbourne (tied to Brisbane)
67 Hawthorn (tied to Richmond)
68 Adelaide (tied to Fremantle)
69 Sydney
70 Port Adelaide (tied to Geelong)
71 Port Adelaide
72 Brisbane (tied to Melbourne)
73 Western Bulldogs

 

Club-by-club draft picks

YOUR CLUB'S 2021 PICKS
Adelaide 10, 29, 36, 65, 68
Brisbane 11, 17, 46, 48, 57, 72
Carlton 6, 25, 61
Collingwood 37, 39, 47, 50
Essendon 7, 44, 53
Fremantle 13, 32
Geelong 24, 26, 34, 52
Gold Coast 8, 19, 27, 43, 54, 62, 63
GWS 2, 5, 42, 60
Hawthorn 4, 21, 23, 56, 67
Melbourne 30, 41, 55
North Melbourne 1, 20, 38, 66
Port Adelaide 16, 59, 70, 71
Richmond 12, 15, 22, 31, 45, 49
St Kilda 3, 40, 58
Sydney 14, 33, 69
West Coast 9, 28, 35, 51, 64
Western Bulldogs 18, 73

Draft value index

ROUND ONE   ROUND TWO ROUND THREE ROUND FOUR ROUND FIVE
Pick/Pts Pick/Pts Pick/Pts Pick/Pts Pick/Pts
1. 3000 19. 948 37. 483 55. 207 73. 9
2. 2517 20. 912 38. 465 56. 194 74. -
3. 2234 21. 878 39. 446 57. 182  
4. 2034 22. 845 40. 429 58. 170  
5. 1878 23. 815 41. 412 59. 158  
6. 1751 24. 785 42. 395 60. 146  
7. 1644 25. 756 43. 378 61. 135  
8. 1551 26. 729 44. 362 62. 123  
9. 1469 27. 703 45. 347 63. 112  
10. 1395 28. 677 46. 331 64. 101  
11. 1329 29. 653 47. 316 65. 90  
12. 1268 30. 629 48. 302 66. 80  
13. 1212 31. 606 49. 287 67. 69  
14. 1161 32. 584 50. 273 68. 59  
15. 1112 33. 563 51. 259 69. 49  
16. 1067 34. 542 52. 246 70. 39  
17. 1025 35. 522 53. 233 71. 29  
18. 985 36. 502 54. 220 72. 19