You need to start reading RussellEbertsHandball's thread. Read all the way through his opening posts ftom 2009.
He also has SANFL financials in some of hus recent posts. I know there is some bile and venom in the thread. But quite a lot of what he's posted backs up much of what has been stated here.
You are using the Essendon defence. "No one really knows, but its all good anyway!"
I was told on here that REH said the SANFL's financials weren't publicly available. I then put up a link to them, so I'm not giving much credit there and I'm certainly not going to read 5 years of posts.
The reason I say that none of us know the detail of the negotiations is perhaps because that's a factual statement. If it's wrong, let me know specifically the figures they're still haggling over.
The facts are that the AFL and the clubs want more, the SANFL wants to pay less than that. The negotiations have been ongoing for months.
My guess from that is that the clubs don't want to budge from what they see as a minimum requirement and the SANFL is the same.
How anyone can state with certainty that one side is totally correct and the SANFL is totally greedy is beyond logic, unless you just argue from a 'my club is right, everyone else is wrong' point of view. Which seems to be contagious on here.
None of us know, and if that's an 'Essendon defence', fine.
Essendon look like they might win, actually.