Posts Tagged "AFL players association"

There’s no question Australian Rules football needs a genuine form of representative footy, but the player-driven idea of an American style East-versus-West “All Star” game is a mindbogglingly stupid way to go about it.

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Port Adelaide coach Matthew Primus should concentrate on preparing his team for their next clash rather than asking his soon to be out of contract midfielder Travis Boak to make a decision regarding his future.

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Andrew Demetriou did his mid-season round of radio interviews over the weekend, which usually delivers some kind of insight into the future direction of the competition.

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News surfaced yesterday that the AFL Players Association are leading a push to return State of Origin footy, possibly as soon as next year.

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Although it’ll be a challenge, the AFL says it will speak with players over their push to revive State of Origin.

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Since its humble beginnings in 1974, the AFL Players Association has grown to become a significant force.

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After agreeing to pay a fistful of dollars to players for the next five years, AFL is set to further tighten its grip on Australia’s elite sporting talent.

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It was a poor reflection on the football media that many journalists swallowed the AFL press release about its $1.144 billion pay offer to players and opined it was an offer “too good to refuse”.

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Stadiums in Spain were bathed in darkness last weekend as a players’ strike postponed the opening round of La Liga matches. It is reflective of a global trend of industrial action in sport, but will we see it come to Australia?

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AFL boss Andrew Demetriou has again accused the players’ association of peddling misleading information in their pay case, despite angering players with previous such claims.

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AFL players do a lot of work, but would have you believe that they are not paid well enough for their efforts. Sounds like a hard sell? I thought so too.

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As we keep hearing from sports administrators of late, big sport is big business. Dare I say it, so is little sport with many weekend clubs relying on attendances, bar sales and lunches to save their bottom line.

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The players are united, the players are united, the players are united. This statement should be drilled into your head by now. An incredible amount of the “analysis” of the AFL players’ pay dispute involves varying interpretations of these four words.

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The AFL Players’ Association (AFLPA) is conscious of the fact that public sentiment is not always behind the players in their pay dispute with the AFL.

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The AFL players’ association (AFLPA) says a report about AFL chief Andrew Demetriou’s salary hike hasn’t helped negotiations with the league over a pay deal.

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Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich says Wednesday night’s meeting of AFL players to discuss their push for a pay rise will be a “watershed” moment in the game’s history.

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The prospect of a players’ strike in pursuit of their wage claim has been dismissed by the AFL Players Association. AFLPA chief executive Matt Finnis said talk of stop-work action would be “drawing a long bow.”

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The AFL has confirmed it is prepared to deal with the clubs first if the impasse with the players association over a new pay deal continues.

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The AFL clubs will back the league “to the hilt” in the negotiations with the players over how the game’s TV rights goldmine should be divided.

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The investigator whose report cost Ricky Nixon his job blames the disgraced AFL player manager or his associates for leaking it.

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