A team is made up of humans, but isn’t an individual human and can’t be viewed as, or attributed the exact same characteristics as an individual. I’m sure there is a better word for what I meant, if I searched hard enough.
One thing I’ve never understood is why clubs just don’t put in place different contracts.
3 year contract.
Max termination payment: 3 months wages.
How hard is it to do that. Some coaches have some power Clarko, Roos, Malthouse might be able to dictate better terms. But why on earth are untried coach’s who would jump at the chance to coach given such generous termination clauses, it’s not how any other business works(maybe CEO’s excluded).
We often hear comments like “he had a year left on his contract” or “he had to be paid out”. But as you said it is standard practice in most businesses that there is a termination clause which spells out the amount somebody is “paid out”.
I think the media inflate how generous contracts (player, coach and executive) are in the AFL.
FIrst of all, as Darli pointed out, I didn’t anthropomorphise anything.
Secondly, if you were trying to say that a team cannot properly be regarded as having a collective will, or set of characteristics, or culture, then I disagree with you. Strongly.
Knights had an initial 3 year deal. After his second year, where we played some incredibly exciting football, beat some good teams, lost to the sh*t teams, scraped into finals and were humiliated interstate… He was given a 2 year extension.