Adrian Shelton
27 May 2004, 17:21
But what if we could close the gap player earnings wise- say AFL clubs $5million cap- VFL-SANFL-WAFL $1million cap. The best guys are still in the AFL naturally but in this case all players 1 level below the AFL are where they belong and getting OK money instead of heading for suburb or bush footy where they're just taking spots that should be going to local blokes. It'd be nice to see something like this written into a nationwide CBA involving the AFL working with these other comps to improve the players lot instead of trying to make SA put their cap DOWN from $340000 to $140000 to match the other 2 main state comps while AFL salaries go to a level that no footballer in Australia deserves for 3 yrs let alone 1.