List Mgmt. Dan Houston requests trade to Victoria - will stay if deal can't be done

[Malibu#27]

Latest news:

 

[Wargreymon90]

Shouldn’t be any free agency compensation if it were truly free agency

Everyone says this. But if we did abolish compensation, you can say goodbye to any notion of equalisation.

The only solution is to scrap free agency entirely. Which imo is the right thing. It doesn’t suit our game.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Lukosius salary dump. We take on the full salary and get pick 13 as well, just like Geelong when they traded Bowes.

Yep.

Delusional.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Everyone says this. But if we did abolish compensation, you can say goodbye to any notion of equalisation.

The only solution is to scrap free agency entirely. Which imo is the right thing. It doesn’t suit our game.

AFLPA would never agree to that

 

[Adz2332]

Collingwood pick 13 (GC trade for Noble + more), f1 and Richards

 

[El_Scorcho]

Everyone says this. But if we did abolish compensation, you can say goodbye to any notion of equalisation.

The only solution is to scrap free agency entirely. Which imo is the right thing. It doesn’t suit our game.

It was an enormous, disastrous mistake to institute a Free Agency without the accompanying trading without consent. FA works in American sport because it's balanced by teams being able to trade contracted players without the player's consent.

It's wildly unbalanced in the AFL and they can never fix it without having to make some huge concessions to the AFLPA.

 

[philthy05]

It was an enormous, disastrous mistake to institute a Free Agency without the accompanying trading without consent. FA works in American sport because it's balanced by teams being able to trade contracted players without the player's consent.

It's wildly unbalanced in the AFL and they can never fix it without having to make some huge concessions to the AFLPA.

Yeah I’ve said this before. It was adopted from an American system where players come into the league already developed by insanely professional high school and college systems.

Teams that lose players coming into their prime didn’t spend years waiting for the player to physically develop or to learn to play the game.

It’s just incredibly stupid here.

 

[Chewy316]

Yeah I’ve said this before. It was adopted from an American system where players come into the league already developed by insanely professional high school and college systems.

Teams that lose players coming into their prime didn’t spend years waiting for the player to physically develop or to learn to play the game.

It’s just incredibly stupid here.

In the NBA, players are essentially one and done prospects from college coming into the league as 19 year olds. Far from a finished product. But they are on a team friendly 4 year contract and are a restricted free agent thereafter.

Then you've got the NFL where players entering the league are a bit older (21-23 on average) but even then very few rookies start and play meaningful snaps from day 1.

The concept of free agency in the AFL well and truly works. But what is ridiculous is when you see players requesting a trade one year into their career to sign long contracts with another team.

Players in the AFL have way too much power relative to the teams.

One correction I'd like to see is contracts transfer from one team to another when a player is traded, and the ability for players to be traded to another Club against their will, so long as their contract obligations are met. This would never happen, but I could see a variant whereby it eventually reaches a point where any player going home per se can't nominate a club and instead they can be traded to any team in that state (or city).

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I think the biggest change that needs to come in (and wont) is equality of exposure and fixture.

This would lead to greater equality of off field opportunities.

Which would allow the salary cap to properly balance out free agency wins and losses.

On SM-G975F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Watto71]

North looking to split pick 2

 

[ctpower]

North looking to split pick 2

Do You think North can convince Houston to go there