Comments on: Malthouse calls on AFL to resist free agency push

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:16:20 +0000

Big Al

There ain’t too much for me to skite about is there!!

By: Ben Somerford

Ben Somerford — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:06:36 +0000

That’s the thing Pip, Collingwood are in the business of selling memberships not winning premierships.

By: BigAl

BigAl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:18:22 +0000

Pip – shame ! As a Saints supporter I am not afraid to admit that Collingwood are a mighty team & club !

– always in the finals, great bunch of supporters etc. … they just can’t win premierships !

You and I would understand this.

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:07:09 +0000

It’s an interesting philosophical question.

If there was no draft and salary cap and complete free agency, and Collingwood generated twice the support and dollars as most other clubs – would they continue to be useless on the field?

By: BigAl

BigAl — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:42:43 +0000

Would you include prostitutes in that ?

By: BigAl

BigAl — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:38:29 +0000

A ‘qualifying’ free agency for players is inevitable and the AFL had better get one sorted(with the AFLPA) before the current arrangements get tested in a court of law – with the distinct possibility of . . . all hell breaking loose !

Combined with the draft & salary cap, I can’t see how it would be ‘ruinous’ to the competition.

By: Freud of Football

Freud of Football — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:25:36 +0000

It’s wrong to suggest that free-agency will create “super” clubs, the AFL has a salary cap, look at Essendon around the turn of the century, they had a ridiculously talented line-up but struggled to keep them due to the cap while Brisbane were in the same boat a few years later and they had players taking pay-cuts to stay on and win more flags.

I can’t see a bunch of the best players all taking pay-cuts to play at any particular club.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:06:04 +0000

It aint the real world!

I’ll cop where I am told to live and who to play for for 5-10 years at 300k plus a year. Set for life and thats not good enough? Bloody hell…

By: bever fever

bever fever — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:25:43 +0000

Perhaps you are too young to remember when just a few teams had all the money, so JR are you against the salary cap and the draft … 2 of the most equalising factors that in reality give everyone a fair go…… socalist as it may be.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:53:54 +0000

I agree with Malthouse. Look what’s happened to the English Premier League, where basically Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal dominate the competition because basically that’s where the cash is. Disappointed as I am that Luke Ball probably won’t get through to the ‘Pies, I think the even competition is a much better way to go for AFL, competing as it is against world games. Just protect us from tanking.

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:44:39 +0000

Well if you want to live your life as a sheep,be told where to play, what team, what state, in the real world if your working for a company and another offers you more money you would refuse it because you have to ask permission to leave,come off it you would be out the door the next day.
If its good for you why not AFL footballers

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:56:22 +0000

I’ll be a slave! Blokes get paid small fortunes to play sport…

By: bever fever

bever fever — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:52:57 +0000

I think slavery is far to mild a term JR, it really is inhumane how professional footballers are treated.

At any rate going to court never really seems to settle a lot of these problems, they are best left to the players union and management to sort out …. you would agree with that wouldn’t you John ? .

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:54:33 +0000

I always thought they abolished slavery even well paid slaves are slaves,I wish some one would take it to the High Court,that would settle a lot of arguments