individual player may choose which one of these teams is able to pick him under this rule. For example, Joe Daniher's father Anthony Daniher played 118 games with Essendon and 115 with Sydney. Joe selected Essendon. Alternatively, a player has the right to decline to be selected under the father–son rule and instead be eligible to be drafted by any other club. An example of this was Marc Murphy who declined to sign with the Brisbane Lions despite his father, John Murphy, playing 214 games for the Fitzroy Football Club. Murphy was instead selected as the first pick in the 2005 National Draft by Carlton. AFL Women's With the establishment of AFL Women's from the 2017 season, the AFL introduced an equivalent father–daughter recruitment rule, enabling clubs priority recruitment access to daughters of former senior players. Under this rule, the father needs to only have played one senior match for his club for his daughter to be eligible. The first father-daughter selection was in 2018, when Carlton selected Abbie McKay, the daughter of Andrew McKay. Criteria are also in place for mother–son and mother–daughter rules, from such time that the children of AFLW players reach draft eligible age (i.e. at least 18 years of age on 31 December in the year in which they are drafted). See also List of players drafted to the Australian Football League under the father–son rule AFL Draft References Australian Football League Australian Football League draft Australian rules football families