Sydney's No KAV! Rule repealed

AFL softens stance on Sydney trade ban, Swans can approach players below current average wage
JAY CLARK HERALD SUN

THE AFL has lifted its controversial trade ban on the Sydney Swans but will limit the club from recruiting players earning more than the average player wage.

The Swans won the fight to participate in this year’s exchange period, but will only be allowed to sign players and free agents on approximately $340,000 or less.

Sydney chief executive Andrew Ireland said the club would prefer there was no salary limit but believed “the outcome would suit our needs in this year’s exchange period”.

“We would prefer if there would be no limitations in terms of coming back in (to the trade period), but the reality was we were looking for an outcome,” Ireland told the Herald Sun.

Sydney’s trade ban means it can’t make another lucrative, Lance Franklin-style offer to a player or free agent.

The AFL announced it had reached an agreement with the Swans following a formal request in December from the 2012 premiers to scrap the ban.

In a shock move last October, the AFL banned the Swans from accessing any free agents or players in the 2014 and 2015 trade periods, while the controversial Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) was phased out.

The COLA provided the Swans and Greater Western Sydney with an extra $1 million in their salary cap due to the increased expense of living in Sydney, but it will be banished by 2017.

Ireland said he believed the AFL made the decision to penalise the powerhouse last year in part due to “how it would be seen if we did recruit a high-profile player”.

“But in the end we’ve come up with a compromise both parties willing to accept,” Ireland said.

“We are pleased to be back in a position, like the 17 other clubs, to trade players and recruit free agents to our club.”

Sydney officials were furious when the league enforced the ban on the eve of last year’s exchange period, preventing it from replacing departing free agent Nick Malceski and second-year forward Tim Membrey with another existing AFL player.

AFL General Counsel Andrew Dillon said the league executive discussed a range of alternatives this week following ongoing talks with the Swans and the AFL Players’ Association.

“At all times, the Sydney Swans have complied fully with the AFL’s rules, and the club has been in discussion with the AFL Commission and executive how it should be allowed to participate in trading during the phase out process,” Dillon said.

“The AFL is pleased that this outcome has been reached to the satisfaction of the club, the AFL and the AFL Players’ Association.”

Players’ Association chief executive Paul Marsh said the ban was unfair on the Swans and its players.

“These concerns were raised with both the AFL and the club and we are now pleased to have reached an agreement with all parties,” Marsh said.

“We believe this to be a more effective solution and one that will allow Sydney to participate in the trade and free agency process.”

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Bit of sliding doors. Would Kav! still have been a Bomber if not for the one-year ban?
Would it have affected our other trading/drafting?
And when will the AFL put the NSW kids under a bidding system like everyone else?

Does anyone actually believe the salary cap applies to Hawthorn/Sydney?

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Does anyone actually believe the salary cap applies to Hawthorn/Sydney?

I think you’d be a fool if you did.

Has been proven time and again that they can do whatever they want with little or no consequence compared to the rest of the competition.

What a crock of ■■■■.

The AFL is half-pregnant (and the baby will be ugly). Three wrongs don’t make a right.

Fark Sydney

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Fark Sydney

Fkn Cncr

The AFL… bastion of all things fair and equal in this world.

What has happened to our great game?

Have we sat by and let the greedy fat farks ruin it for everyone?

Kav! would not be a bomber imo without that ban. And the Aylett to rookie list thing wouldnt have had to occur. Imo, the ban effected our list management plans as much as sydneys. Question now is, can we get a Sydney-like result from kav’s development.

oh, and yeah, yet another bullshit half-arsed deal from the afl where they claim everyone is happy when we all know its not right. Youve still got James Hird to deal with, ■■■■■■.

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The AFL... bastion of all things fair and equal in this world.

What has happened to our great game?

Have we sat by and let the greedy fat farks ruin it for everyone?


What’s happened is professionalism>business>corruption>
money. Natural progression, though that’s not to say shifty things didn’t happen back in the day (they did), but there wasn’t the incentive to corrupt the whole thing as there is now. The afl wanted Sydney to be successful, their wish was granted. However they obviously decided the buddy trade was them being “too successful” so they decided to bend them over a bit.

The AFL made a rod for its own back. They can’t say Sydney have exceeded the cap as the 2013 premiership gets brought into question hence why they were suspended from trading but no proper reason given.

Same as why Bomber escaped alot of criticism for 2012 because if he is included with Robinson and Dank then Geelong’s premierships come into question.

Has anyone won a flag legitimately in the last 15 years?

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Has anyone won a flag legitimately in the last 15 14 years?
Fixed.

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Has anyone won a flag legitimately in the last 15 14 years?
Fixed.
Thank you ;)