Key draft, trade and free agency dates.

[MOTR]

Friday 4 October - AFL Restricted free agency offer and unrestricted free agency period begins.

Friday 4 October by 2pm - AFL father-son bidding nominations; Academy bidding nominations lodged with AFL.

Monday 7 October 10am - father/son and Academy players bidding meeting; Gillette AFL Trade period begins.

Friday 18 October at 5pm - close of AFL restricted free agency offer and unrestricted free agency period.

Monday 21 October - AFL restricted free agency matching offer three-day period Ends

Friday 25 October at 2pm - AFL Trade period closes.

Thursday 31 October by 2pm - list lodgement (1); rookie promotion to primary list; Retained second and third-year rookies; Scholarship players; alternate talent player nominations.

Friday 1 November - AFL delisted player free agency period (1) begins.

Wednesday 13 November - AFL delisted player free agency period (1) closes; out-of-contract listed AFL primary list players draft nomination form and player Request for Removal from list form lodged with AFL; new or expired (after 3 years) draft nomination form lodgement; nomination of Activation of Compensatory selections held by Clubs as determined in 2012 only under the GWS Giants list establishment rules.

Thursday 14 November by 2pm - list lodgement (2).

Friday 15 November by 2pm - delisted primary list draft nomination form lodgement; non–retained rookie players draft nomination form lodgement; priority zone selections – NSW/ACT and NT on the primary list of GWS Giants.

Thursday 21 November - AFL draft selection meeting (Gold Coast Convention Centre).

Friday 22 November - AFL delisted player free agency period (2) begins.

Wednesday 27 November by 2pm - out-of-contract AFL primary listed players nomination form lodgement and player request for removal from list form; international players inclusion on rookie list form; players not registered or played for three years rookie list form lodgement; scholarship players rookie list form lodged; international scholarship rookie list lodged; AFL delisted free agency period (2) ends.

Thursday 28 November by 2pm - AFL Club list lodgement (3) and TPP estimates.

Friday 29 November - AFL delisted player free agency period (3) begins.

Tuesday 3 December - delisted primary list players nomination form lodgement; AFL delisted free agency period (3) ends.

Tuesday 10 December - AFL pre-season draft selection meeting (11am, Telstra Webex); notification of pre-selected rookies Nominated on Friday 7 December if not selected in the pre-season draft (11.05am); AFL rookie draft selection meeting (11.10am, Telstra Webex)

[Tannin]

Great resource but why do you put that razor company's name in every sentence? It is really annoying and hard to read. A little search-and-replace editing would be much appreciated.

[Pies4shaw]

For those who are interested, the dates have been revised, so that the "AFL restricted free agency offer and unrestricted free agency period" now begins on 4 October, not today, as originally scheduled.

I suppose that explains why there haven't been any first day announcements or signings today. It did seem awfully quiet.

[5150]

[MOTR]

[MOTR]

Do we get to find out our compensation for Daisy on the 21st?

[Rexy17]

no 18th

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[Tannin]

[*ORZA*]

Anyone know what time the draft is and is it on fox footy?

[Dave The Man]

[Dave The Man]

[Presti35]

So the Rookie and PreSeason drafts are tomorrow around 11?

[Pies4shaw]

^^^ According to this article just posted on the AFL site, these drafts take place at 10.45 am tomorrow: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-11-26/five-alive-in-psd

Apparently, the pre-season draft is first and the rookie draft follows on immediately after it. It seems the PSD may be a bit of a non-event - the suggestion here is that only GWS might use its pick (on Jed Lamb, which is already public knowledge).

[swoop42]

So the PSD and rookie selections are tomorrow and not the 10th of December as listed above.

Strange that the AFL released the wrong info in the first place.