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(since changed its name to Australian Football League) as the main method for the 14 teams to recruit players for the 1990 season. It consisted of a trading period, pre-draft selections, the main national draft and the 1990 pre-season draft and a non-compulsory 1990 mid-year draft. The minimum age for most draftees was 16 and clubs other than the

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were only allowed to choose one player each from

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. For the non-Queensland and NSW clubs, players from those states had to be 19 to be selected, by which time the

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would have had three chances to recruit them.

Pre-draft picks

Pre-draft trades

1989 national draft

Post-draft picks

1990 preseason draft

1990 mid-season draft

References

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