aren’t the players contracted to the afl first then to the clubs.
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I’d imagine so.
You can twist the analogy any way you like to suit what you’d like your point to be.
I think the competition part is important.
Departments of one company don’t compete for the same final result at the expense of others.
They complement each other.
And I don’t think you could argue that any other club outside the league is competing with those in it.
Whatever gave you that idea in today’s AFL?
The AFL clubs ARE departments of one employer. The AFL owns everything about them. The players’ contracts are with the AFL.
You may recall there was a famous Saga recently in which that was a central point of contention.
I think it’s a long stretch to say the AFL clubs aren’t trying to defeat each other and use the best employers possible as a means to do that.
I take your point, but I don’t think it’s a very good one.
Well they can play in other leagues. Lots of them. It’s just that the pay isn’t as good.
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The AFL Clubs are looking to put on entertainment and use people’s historic and geographic passions to induce them to buy memberships and merchandise that support the franchise and head office. Even our own players say they work in “the entertainment industry”.
Nowadays, the clubs are only “trying to defeat each other” inasmuch as that will keep the punters happy and the cash coming in. As you saw with us earlier this year, the Club was quite happy to go on with our dismal performances, until it looked like there would be loss of support by the coteries and supporters.
That’s certainly a point of view, and one I have some a certain amount of sympathy for.
However, clubs do in fact battle each other each week where there is a winner and a loser, and they compete for players to help them win.
As I said, the analogy of one business or several competing businesses isn’t perfect.
In some ways it’s like this, in others it’s like that.
You get to choose which way you want to see it, so it doesn’t make it a very good analogy.
And an accountant can leave a big firm to do the family and friends books in his spare time.
That doesn’t answer why he shouldn’t be allowed to work for a different firm that’s prepared to pay him more money when his contract is up.
Might be one of the few things players have got in their favour in the AFL. The deck everywhere else is pretty much stacked against them and we saw that with our players in the saga. As an employer, the AFL, did not honour its own contracts particularly, with OH and S.
Suns prepare for Lynch exit after latest talks
Jay Clark, Herald Sun
GOLD Coast is preparing for the departure of superstar free agent Tom Lynch after pressing the key forward for an early answer on his future.
The Herald Sun can reveal Suns’ list chief Craig Cameron sought an early answer from Lynch when the pair spoke last week.
While Lynch remains formally undecided, he is seriously weighing up the chance to return home to Melbourne after eight seasons up north.
Lynch plans on making his decision formal at the end of the season after recovering from his knee surgery in Melbourne next week.
But, whatever slim hopes the Suns have of keeping Lynch are now shrinking fast as they look to get the most they can from the Sorrento product’s likely departure.
The Herald Sun understands the Suns are resigned to Lynch leaving and will formulate a strategy to maximise their gains through either a trade or free agency compensation.
Rival clubs are also convinced Lynch is leaving and is strongly considering moving to either Richmond, Hawthorn or Collingwood.
Lynch’s manager Robbie D’Orazio, from Connors Sports, said his client had not made a call on his future.
“As far as we are concerned, Tom and the club are comfortable with where things are at,” D’Orazio said.
“He hasn’t made a decision at all.
“He is really focused on helping his teammates through the last two months of the season and as he said last week he is really disappointed that he can’t get out there on the field with them.
“But the medical experts said it was best for him to have surgery.
“So he is really trying to provide leadership the best way he can and that means focusing on them and the team.
“He will also get ready for his knee surgery and recover from that and then at the end of the season, like all free agents, he will speak with the club and his family.”
The Magpies are also keenly eyeing Gold Coast co-captain Steven May in the event Darcy Moore leaves for Sydney.
Lynch is considered one of the most talented young forwards in the competition but the club has again failed to rise up the ladder this year after another series of player departures.
AFL greats Wayne Carey, Paul Roos and Jon Brown have all called on the AFL to provide the Suns with emergency assistance.
is lynch even that good? I reckon he may be one of the most overrated players in the AFL
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Put him in a good team and he will be a superstar
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Though I get the point and partly agree with you, I want to point out that this is not actually correct. Firstly, it’s not ‘AFL’ it’s Australian Rules. And there are other Australian Rules options for a player who doesn’t want to change locations. It’s just a very very big pay cut.
Edit - looks like I’m last in a long line of people who have said the same thing.
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70+ goals a year in a good side. Quality forward
I heard an idea elsewhere that Adam Kennedy from GWS might be available and cheap. I really don’t know a thing about him, other than he’s a small back. Not really an area of pressing concern, but if he was cheap would others go that?
I reckon SOS would?
Nope
Never much good and coming back from a reco. Big no.
Whether they lose Lynch or not I can see the introduction of some sort of Retention Allowance being introduced, lose both Lynch & May & they might aswell start from scratch.
I wonder if Hartley’s wife likes the beach.
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We should look at Angus Brayshaw, his out of contract at the end of year.
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