THE AFL won't be rushed re-introduce a mid-season draft, despite calls for its return from coaches.

Despite agreeing some clubs could use it now, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has told AFL.com.au any kind of mid-year draft would have to wait.

"The fact a lot of coaches have raised it doesn't mean it's something we're going to jump all over, I mean Adrian's got a process in place and we'll let that process run it's course," Demetriou said on Friday.

Demetriou's comments come after St Kilda coach Scott Watters said a mid-season draft was needed for the "betterment" of the competition.

"To have the capacity half way through the year to adjust to anything that’s occurred from an injury point of view to a list, I don’t think that’s unreasonable," Watters said.

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Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson has also thrown his support behind a mid-season draft.

"I think we're perhaps the only competition in the world that doesn't allow you to bring in other players," Clarkson said.

"We get one opportunity early in October to bring players into your footy club and arrange all your list structures and then there is a rookie draft.

"It would be great for the League to explore some mechanisms where you could bring some players in if you're in real difficulty because of injuries to players over the course of the year."

Watters' and Clarkson's call has been backed by Richmond coach Damien Hardwick, who has called for greater list management flexibility for clubs.

"Whether it's a trade period, where your list isn't fixed until mid-May, I think is a good option for us," he said.

"Most clubs have got list managers now, so they need to be employed to do this role."

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Hardwick is part of a Coaches Association working committee, which also includes Brett Ratten, Ross Lyon and James Hird. They're expected to meet soon, to make a case to AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson.

"We're catching up with Adrian and everyone fairly soon," Ratten said.

He admitted there are a lot of factors that have to be considered including salary cap issues.

"It's not just let's go pick a player, there's a few things that would happen down the chain that could affect those decisions," Ratten said.

Any decision on a mid-season draft rests ultimately with the AFL commission.