It was near the money, especially when you take into account that the AFL has a higher average salary. Note that South Sydney just gave a 16 year old $500 000 per year also. And again, you can only point to two players, plus GWS were well compensated for Boyd.Ponga wasn’t on near the money that Boyd was on.
Plenty of good AFL players have chosen to move to bottom clubs. For the purposes of this, trading should be included because it's the standard form of player movement. It's not the NRLs fault the AFL has tighter rules on free agency, and it's not the AFLs fault that the NRL doesn't have trading and their contracts are broken much more frequently. And it still requires players to agree to join the destination club.Mate premiership are the ultimate measure of success. How many top free agents are lining up to join the bottom clubs here? None it’s because sh*t clubs have sh*t culture.
Taking that into account, in the past two years we've had Mitch McGovern, Lachie Neale, Jesse Hogan and Brad Hill all move to bottom 5 teams. In previous years we've had Charlie Cameron, Ryan Griffen, Dayne Beams and Gary Ablett Jr who all chose to move to bad teams.
What do you mean, they're currently 2-2. Plenty of NRL teams fall into extended ruts, Parramatta and Newcastle have each had three spoons in the past decade alone.You talk about measuring by spoons Carlton have taken out 6 and are still nowhere even with the draft to help them along
Copying in what sense? Drafting? How does that relate to anything happening on the field? My point is that you can't compare turnaround time from bottom to top across sports when they need different numbers of players.You say NRL and AFL are different sports so what? You can make that argument about trying to copy the NFL
He is relevant, Melbourne got nothing in compensation for letting a talented player leave. If there was a draft, they would have.Croft is not relevant to your argument one bit he chose to return home. No different to heaps of AFL players who got drafted. Storm had a crack at getting him to want to invest long term in their system and failed no different to when there was an exodus at Brisbane every year
You haven't justified this at any point.The draft is a joke and it is far worse now with all the picks having points.
Actually they can, you're just choosing to ignore that each club is entitled to a cut of TV revenues. When you account for that, most clubs are solvent, or were before Covid.You speak about no compensation but they have to pay a transfer fee helps get some cash in the door of the weaker clubs especially when half the teams in the AFL and NRL aren’t able to stand on their own two feet