Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2022 - Part 2
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Look I get your overall point but I think you just can’t regulate the marketplace like that.
It will have unintended consequences. The minute you start capping what an individual can earn based on arbitrary bands, you create more problems than you solve IMO.
What is Luke Jackson worth? I’ll tell you what he’s worth - whatever someone is willing to pay for him (us in this case). Not a penny less. This isn’t the government where everyone gets an annual increment for each year of service.
In my opinion the very top players are already underpaid and such a system as suggested would only make that even more pronounced.
Once again depends on the bands.
Also doesn’t have to be a per year figure as such. Games played would form a big part of what a player ‘earned’.
I think there’s room for such a system. I don’t think the current system is ‘broke’ as such, but the idea of salary dumps, salary squeeze, back ended, front ended etc could all be addressed with some sort of adjustment.
Otherwise the not to far future is going to see increasing issues and there will come a time when someone like Bowes can’t be paid by his club or other clubs don’t take on his salary and you have teams forfeiting points or whatever. That’s 100% foreseeable, it’s kind of already happening.
Salary dumps are fine in my opinion. It's a sign that the system is working because it shows the system has flexibility to allow clubs to fix a mistake or change priorities.
He won't pass Mundy's 376 games at least.
Selwood finished 21 short of Dave.
Pendlebury though is just 18 away i suspect he will go past Dave unless a bad injury strikes.
Back to your original point Cobbler: I'd like to see a system where players have a fixed time period after being drafted where they are "non-free agents".
Let's call this non-free period 5 years (2 years guaranteed with a 3 year option). During this period, the players are employed by the AFL, on a pay scale regulated by their Enterprise Agreement (you can have bonus payments for games played, Brownlow votes, AA nominations, etc). As AFL employees they can be moved from club to club freely. So clubs could loan players or trade without consent, etc.
After the non-free period the players are total unrestricted free agents. The clubs can employ them directly with whatever compensation they want (staying within the salary cap). As club employees the players can now contract with whomever they damn like. There is zero compensation when an uncontracted free agent moves clubs. If a contracted free agent moves, well that is a trade between clubs with the player's consent.
Let's call this non-free period 5 years (2 years guaranteed with a 3 year option). During this period, the players are employed by the AFL, on a pay scale regulated by their Enterprise Agreement (you can have bonus payments for games played, Brownlow votes, AA nominations, etc). As AFL employees they can be moved from club to club freely. So clubs could loan players or trade without consent, etc.
After the non-free period the players are total unrestricted free agents. The clubs can employ them directly with whatever compensation they want (staying within the salary cap). As club employees the players can now contract with whomever they damn like. There is zero compensation when an uncontracted free agent moves clubs. If a contracted free agent moves, well that is a trade between clubs with the player's consent.
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There’s no chance of that happening - his wife is pregnant with a long awaited baby, no way she’ll want to move away from her support group in vic.
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Threatening defo; galaxy brain stuff from Clarko.
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Found this on the Adelaide board. Holy ****, reading some of those emails.
Holy feck.
Either we are living through one of the great conspiracies of our time.
Or the Hawks were an absolute shitshow and deserve to have not just the book, but the entire fecking Library of Congress, thrown at them.
And from the Knights Templar and the Illuminati onwards only dimwits have believed in grand conspiracies.
Either we are living through one of the great conspiracies of our time.
Or the Hawks were an absolute shitshow and deserve to have not just the book, but the entire fecking Library of Congress, thrown at them.
And from the Knights Templar and the Illuminati onwards only dimwits have believed in grand conspiracies.
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Yeah, it was "sent from my iPhone"
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Clarko, where’s there’s smoke there fire, perhaps don’t take a win at all costs approach in the first place & there’ll be nothing to talk about.
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****in hell, I wonder who the player is? I imagine on the main board they have worked out who it is easily enough.
Brutal treatment by the club
It’s not Dayle Garlett anyway, he was only drafted by the Hawks in November 2013 and then emails were sent in March 2013
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Maybe, but if I was a player going into, say, Freo's buildings after I had specifically said I wouldn't I'd probably take the trouble to park out of the way and sidle in via the rec centre entrance rather than under a big honking sign saying FREMANTLE FOOTBALL CLUB after walking past 15 photographers in the players carpark.
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