WEST Coast has pitched for special access to its Next Generation Academy players as clubs fight for their share of junior talent ahead of next month's AFL Commission meeting.

Debate on club academies is flaring across the League as the AFL prepares to rule on the future of Greater Western Sydney's rich recruiting zone in southern NSW.

Eagles CEO Trevor Nisbett is not opposed to the Giants retaining their Academy borders, which recruiters say cross into traditional football recruiting zones. 

But he said it defied logic to deny clubs like West Coast access to the players it developed in Next Generation academies. 

The Next Generation academies, which Fremantle also partners in, were established early last year to offer a high performance football talent program for emerging players from diverse backgrounds in Western Australia, including those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities.

"If we're being asked to develop and fund an under-represented area then we should have access to the players we develop," Nisbett told Fairfax Media.

"We'd be more supportive of the academies if we were getting rewarded for the effort and the work when we've got opposition zones in the northern states where the same rules don't apply. 

"It's an argument that defies logic in my view."

West Coast and Fremantle are not given special access to indigenous players from their Next Generation academies unless they come from the Pilbara and the Kimberley respectively.

Nisbett said he had met with the AFL to discuss the issue, stressing that both WA clubs were developing an area that was under-represented in the AFL and WAFL state competition.

While the Eagles push for access to its Next Generation Academy, Brisbane Lions CEO Greg Swann said a return to special zone access across the AFL would not benefit the competition.

"There will be a lot of pressure from clubs putting time and effort into their new academies wanting to recruit those players," Swann told Fairfax Media.

"There'll be a push back to zones and we don't want to see that."

The AFL Commission will meet next month to rule on the future of the Giants' recruiting borders.

GWS CEO David Matthews this week said rival recruiters "overrate, or exaggerate the talent of the guys in our Academy", imploring the AFL to leave its recruiting zone intact.