Your original statement was "from a supporter point of view it sucks seeing your favourite players running around for another team." Chris Judd fit the category of favourite players.
Is free agency interesting?
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Your original statement was "from a supporter point of view it sucks seeing your favourite players running around for another team." Chris Judd fit the category of favourite players.
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A both interesting and enjoyable experience don't buy the loyalty argument so much no shortage of clubs that shaft players when it suits them... Maybe shaft is too strong a word you look at the due diligence issue with Essendon and the Crows off loading Bernie for a draft pick that they thought could be traded to Brisbane for Polac and on the flip side no shortage of players at most clubs that could get better money elsewhere but choose to stay with the clubs they are with. At Power Boak and Westhoff maybe but I think all clubs have a few.
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The big thing free agency lacks is full disclosure of contracts. Fans can't properly judge their football departments because we don't know who's getting paid what and that ultimately is what drives free agency.
Hard for clubs to easily free up liquid cash with some creative contracts due to the 95% spend of the cap rule.
Making big plays for FA requires a good accountant and contract foresight more than anything.
Making big plays for FA requires a good accountant and contract foresight more than anything.
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Nor Freo supporters.
Galileo9
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we would laugh our arses off. mainly because its freo and the joke is ALWAYS on them.
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well thats right, all freo fans are ex WCE fans. so by association unhappy WCE fans = unhappy Freo fans.
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He's admitting Cox is a joke of a player these days, something we've been trying to tell them for a few years now.
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Clubs have never been loyal to their players.
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I think it is great because we haven't lost anyone, but would suck if we lost good players.
I hate it, and personally wish the players were treated as assets like in some other big sports, baseball jumps to mind. The fact that individuals can screw a whole team around like that is bullshit IMO. You get paid that much you should do what you are told.
This would also work in making the league more equal as clubs like Brisbane wouldn't have to worry about prima donnas leaving while being paid $80k a year to train and go out with friends (oh no, how horrible that must be!)
League also needs to step up and stop players cheating the draft system like Luke Ball did a few years ago now.
This would also work in making the league more equal as clubs like Brisbane wouldn't have to worry about prima donnas leaving while being paid $80k a year to train and go out with friends (oh no, how horrible that must be!)
League also needs to step up and stop players cheating the draft system like Luke Ball did a few years ago now.
How about clubs that keep paying injured players who will never come back? Clubs that basically spend ridiculous amounts of money to try and help fix up players personal lives (Martin for example).
Clubs do plenty for their players, not all the time but more then most players would do for the clubs.
Will you now please tell us the one about goldilocks and the three bears?
I'd like to see it go the full circle like it does in the NBA, where a player is just told, "Sorry, tomorrow your suiting up for another franchise across the other side of the country. Thanks, and don't let the door smack you in the rump on your way out". Can you imagine the home sick mummy boys of the AFL putting up with that? Free agency would be dismantled overnight.
At the moment it's all one way, geared towards the player. I'd like to see clubs have some say in the matter.
Big difference between trading a player on 50k and telling them to move interstate compared to someone earning a league minimum 500k in the NBA.
They can easily afford to put themselves up in another state. Earning what some AFL players do and being told to move interstate could simply become financially unaffordable for some.
Delisted free agency status is a better addition. Allows deserved flexibility and security to player and club.
As for typical free agency, some clubs have/will use it smartly, others will do it to throw money at a problem without fixing the underlying issues.
As for typical free agency, some clubs have/will use it smartly, others will do it to throw money at a problem without fixing the underlying issues.
Riccardo11
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It's not the word I would use.........................
Riccardo11
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Looking forward to seeing him line up against his old club this week?Interesting?
Why yes. Yes it is.
Oh wait..............
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I'm sure Judd would have made big money if he stayed at West Coast, the main reason he left was to move back to Melbourne for family reasons. He'd already moved back there before he decided to go to Carlton with their Visy deal so money wasn't really a factor in him moving, he was going to get big money wherever he went as he was the no.1 player in the game back then.
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Not quite sure how you think that's a wicked burn. Bloke is a better player now than he ever was at the Saints.
And the margin would just be greater.....
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No he isn't, he was playing better footy back in 2009/10 when he was All Australian.
When have you seen Goddard take a hanger on someone's shoulders at Essendon like he did at St Kilda? He's still a good player but doesn't have the athleticism and leap that he had when he was younger.
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Christ you blokes are reaching.
A hanger? So I need to point to a hanger to show he's a better player now??
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