These concessions were similar to those provided to the Gold Coast Football Club, which entered the league in the previous season.
Players recruited and traded in this manner were not eligible to play senior AFL football in 2012, and would continue to undergo junior development.
Mitch Clark, Leon Davis, Brad Ebert and Jack Gunston all requested to be traded back to teams in their states of origin.
As part of their entry concessions, Greater Western Sydney was allocated up to four selections in a mini-draft, which could be used to recruit seventeen-year-old players who otherwise would not be eligible for the 2011 National Draft, but who could not play senior AFL football until the 2013 season.
Buckley and Bews were secured with no rival clubs submitting bids, allowing Carlton and Geelong to each use its final draft selection for the father–son pick.
[89] Zac Dawson, Leon Davis and John McCarthy were considered to be the delisted AFL players most likely to be selected.