Williams is important as a link to news.ltd which is the games biggest stakeholder, although i don’t think he is even on the commission anymore. Bassatt invented Seek and his brother is president of the saints, so seems alright, Bishop seems like a Gill mate, so he could be dumped.
I think the commission should be half footy, half corporate high flyers.
I would personally get rid of Newbold and add Tony Cochrane in his position, add matt de boer as a former player and successful businessman and Andrew Ireland as a previous player and successful ceo at both Sydney and Brisbane. That would really round off the football/ business/ administration elements nicely. All 3 with experience in traditional and expansion markets.
In the 1980s the big fight in the ALP was about affirmative action and quotas for women in preselection for seats in Parliament. It was an argument mostly between women with one side arguing for the best candidate to get the gig. Well Affirmative Action was brought in and now 40 years later we have massive proof that it works. Great female MPs like Penny Wong, Cathy King and Tanya Pliber and many others would not have got the opportunity probably and some old white guy would have their spot.
The AFL’s superstars would be traded against their will NBA-style under a radical proposal raised by the league as part of its pay talks with the AFL Players’ Association.
And the league has for the first time officially asked the AFLPA to consider a mid-season trade period under the next collective bargaining agreement to help increase player movement across clubs.
The AFL gave its first proposal to the AFLPA three weeks ago as part of negotiations which have both parties a long way apart on the finances and tenure of the new CBA agreement.
From Herald Sun…
Needless to say the AFLPA have said there is no way they will support the trade against a player and families will.
Yet the AFLPA want a 4 year CBA and approached the AFL as soon as they saw how much the AFL made last year…
Dillon’s negotiating skills evident from working his way up from junior solicitor to the top job, wrecking the lives of three Essendon staff lives on the way up the ladder, taking away Jobe’s Brownlow, supporting Gil in his false guarantees to get the players off.
