AFL reeling from job cuts

"When the game resumes one action I would like the AFL to take is to make all the teams in the AFL have an AWFL team." I'm with you ostle-guest, never waste a good crisis. The clubs should not be re-admitted without plans and specifications for a wind farm in the outer of every ground; their boards must include at least one Lithuanian and a homeless hobo because diversity is our strength; they must show proof they have adopted a koala - and that they have paid the EU slush fund in Brussels to ensure the temperature drops in 2089. Only then can the secondary objective be discussed, of allowing barmen and club cleaners return to work.

Need Chapter 11 provisions for Australian sporting 'clubs' to survive. The AFL has challenges. The NRL have potential huge challenges. The FFA - it will be interesting; private owners for some clubs.

I have read reports where the hierarchy had wanted players to take an 80% cut. And fair enough. But where was the leadership and where was their quid pro quo offer? I’m sorry l just don’t rate Gil. —– I always ask myself what would be Richie Benaud’s and Ian Chappell’s thinkng on the matter? —- So yes Gil has a lot on his plate with the current tribulations. So l get the difficulties. But in the fabulous times, of the recent yore, where was the management when Goodes, Betts, etc were going through the unseemly racism? Where was the Headmaster? He was on full pay and there was little pressing him other the WA & SA fans agitating for a home GF. —- https://youtu.be/aEtfgfv5iN4

Rubbish. There are thousands of pilots that have been stood down in Australia, and aren't getting anywhere near a plane for the foreseeable future They are back on their base salaries, or extremely scaled back packages. Yet, you best believe they are going to be required to still turn up to simulator sessions so that when the industry is ready to ramp up again, pilots will be ready to go! Ditto for the flight attendants. Unpaid leave doesn't mean unemployment. We all have to make sacrifices. Asking someone to stay fit for a month is hardly a burden.

I think you'll find Gillon will be taking a larger pay cut soon, and almost certainly has also taken a bigger cut when his bonus won't be paid.

Their job isn't only games. Broadcast rights isn't the only revenue. Players have to be both reasonable, and smart because if the AFL goes broke they have no income, but they've been paid because they've been meeting their obligations that they are paid for.

He did.

Brutal times, and hopefully in the next few days the AFL, players and club officials can come to an agreement on what occurs over the next few months, and then begins to plan for the longer term. At the moment the players seem to be getting off lightly, the 50% cut is for the next two months, which is 8.3% of a year's salary, while the coaches volunteer for 20%, and four fifths of the AFL admin are told to take a holiday, but most will probably fear that at the end of the holiday all will be told to visit Centrelink. When the game resumes one action I would like the AFL to take is to make all the teams in the AFL have an AFLW team. That both competitions are resumed, and that both have resources to ensure they have a cogent competition.

Gill needs to take this opportunity to do a long overdue clean-outat the AFL. Start with your marketing people, who missed the opportunity of a life time to properly market the game to all the sports starved overseas people tuning into the AFL broadcasts last weekend. Education clips on the rules and purpose of the game could have been programmed pre-game and during breaks to cater for interested new watchers. These people may have been enthused by our game, but probably confused by this completely different football code. Even Tex Walker saw this opportunity coming. Get to it Gil.....

It's certainly in the players' best interests to maintain fitness, for both their physical and mental well being. The average Joe Blow should be doing it to some extent, do you want them paid extra for doing it?

When you're the CEO you should be the first to take a paycut when revenue decreases.

Not when training is part of their job. We're not talking about increasing skill levels to be ready for promotion here, we're talking about the day to day tasks of their job.

They should feel free not to train and get delisted when they return (likely to have a clause covering being unfit/unprepared). People often train for new jobs and to advance in their current position.

Do the clubs expect the players to keep training at home whilst not being paid? That's a bit rich.

I love a good Gillion bash as much as the next man, but the simple fact is he's still working and the player's aren't. Also this is what happens when you revenue share which the players fought so hard for. Unfortunately when the revenue decreases so does your paycheck.

The players need to accept they are losing 100% of their monthly salaries from today. Remember they have already been paid 50% of their salaries this year. Very generous to take a 50% pay cut when they are not working. Put simply there is no work for them so they cannot expect to get paid. The rest of the population take a 100% pay cut when they no longer can work. Another simple solution is to give all players 100k for the rest of the year. The players at the top end will just have to suck it up and not be greedy.

Gil's work load has increased dramatically and probs will continue to do so. The Players? I think you're being too personal which is clouding your logic.

Go Gilon, taking a 20% pay cut while players take 50%. The leader is leading. Whilst some in the community are losing their low-paid jobs! Gilon could take a 75% paycut and still be better off than 80% of the general population.