telsor
Hall of Famer
Something tells me the AFL is regretting not agreeing to the revenue sharing deal the AFLPA wanted.
and that the AFLPA wont put that on the table again for a very long time.
Season 2020 & the money if cancelled
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Something tells me the AFL is regretting not agreeing to the revenue sharing deal the AFLPA wanted.
and that the AFLPA wont put that on the table again for a very long time.
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something tells me that if the players arent flexible, no one is going to give them what they want next time.
telsor
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You'd think so, but as I understand it, player contracts as individual things...~800 players wont all agree.
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& it makes little difference when there is no comp.
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Dont the AFLPA have a contract with the AFL that underwrites payment.
If one player acts alone, requires the AFL to pay .....
Wow, a week on and I bet you are regretting that call !.
The first sentence has been proved wrong.....but I am sticking by the rest of it
Given the level of community infection, this shut down should see the virus eliminated in Australia and the AFL to resume at the end of May
- May 13, 2012
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- GWS
- Other Teams
- Brumbies, Socceroos
I hope you're right, but that sounds a bit optimistic.
It will be a miracle if we're back playing on 1 June.
I think the next two weeks will tell the tale as to weather we come out of it quickly or it goes on for a long time.
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Yeah I agree.
The shutdown either lets them get on top of it or they don't get on top of it and the season will be a write off
Standing down most of the AFL staff is a pretty clear sign this won’t be sorted in 8 weeks.....
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Not sure the AFL employs a team of epidemiologists nor has a seat at the national cabinet
I would have thought that keeping open the option of a June restart suggests they have been briefed of a possibility that this will be got under control
telsor
Hall of Famer
Yeah, but the 'national cabinet' talks to lots of them, and they made it fairly clear that when things get shut down, they expect they'll be down for at least 6 months.
mianfei
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Might – if the league cannot resume by mid-July I have calculated – the AFL decide to play the competition in a manner akin to the old “Foster’s Cup” as a pure single-elimination tournament? An 18-team single-elimination tournament – seeded based on 2019 placings I would presume – would take six or seven weeks to complete. If we allow a couple of extra weekends in October so the grand final would be on the weekend of 10 October, the league could have such a format and not have to resume until late August. That lies five weeks after the calculated limit for a partial round-robin or even Swiss- or McMahon-system fixture list (the league did something somewhat akin during the last few rounds of the wartime 1943 season) followed by a normal finals system.
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Cant see AFL Media coming back, one of the excesses ...
telsor
Hall of Famer
I hope you're right, but we'll see.
I think Gil likes to have his propaganda department.
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Spot on, hiding behind being able to stream sometime in the future??
telsor
Hall of Famer
I'm sure that would have been the theory (direct and indirect control over the media would just be a bonus...Officially).
I wonder what the AFL could get if they sold their media arm...It'd be fire sale prices to be sure, but they might need to.
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What would the market pay, who would it be of any value for.
The AFL Commission need to address their role in all of this.
telsor
Hall of Famer
The rights to provide content for the AFL website, etc. would presumably be worth something.
mianfei
Club Legend
As for West Coast, its owners, the WAFC, urgently need the money to prop up the ailing second-tier WAFL league, which was in an extremely parlous state before the COVID-19 pandemic. It is certainly possible that 2019 will prove forever the last WAFL season as we know it, and the WAFC may not know what to replace the WAFL with if they cannot keep it operating.
The WAFC also has the question of Fremantle. Fremantle is actually the fourth-poorest of the fourteen clubs from traditional Australian Rules states, ahead only of Port Adelaide and the three poorest Victorian clubs of Melbourne, North Melbourne and St. Kilda.
So if the WAFC’s priorities be the WAFL and Fremantle – and I imagine they will be since the AFL will not wish to lose the Dockers – West Coast may not be that secure.
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Did you quote that, can you link it?
I can see the WA Govt seeing the value in the WAFC & its AFL clubs particularly given the funding of Optus Stadium is underwritten* by AFL footy/the Dockers & Eagles.
* the AFL wont be able to pay so underwritten is in a technical sense only,
mianfei
Club Legend
“Kwality”,
the figures concerning Fremantle’s wealth are from ‘An extended coronavirus shutdown may change sport as we know it in Australia’. The claims about the WAFL being under threat are less clear I will confess and come from a report its reserves competition was on the verge of being shut down.
