For those interested, Draft Central have released a free draft guide you can download - 132 pages of AFL Draft gold (maybe, I haven't looked at it yet) but something for people to look at anyway....
Some clubs don't have anything else to spend their money on. List full of young players, only 1 real star, maybe a few others. Front end a contract to win the player. Last year it was Polec at North.
They were saying on sen1116 that Martin's probably on $600k a year with GC, so a 1st year front loaded contract for a million isn't too bad. But I did read a few weeks ago that the afl had stated the offer should be averaged out over the term of the contract.