Free Agency Ben McKay [Joins Essendon as RFA]

Does he stay or does he go?


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Essendon let Daniher walk for pick 7 a few years ago. If a player doesn't wanna be there they don't want to be there.

Let me start by saying that North Melbourne did not do anything wrong, nor did they do anything that any other club would not have done in their position. This is an issue with the free agency compensation system.

The issue is not that North Melbourne let Ben McKay leave, it is that they did not use the restricted free agency mechanism. They did not bother to match the offer because they knew that the compensation they would receive from a trade would not match the value they received from FA compensation.

North are not the first club to do this which is the issue. Essendon did so with Daniher, Adelaide did so with Brad Crouch to a lesser extent.

In my opinion, if you do not have the cap room to match a rival club’s offer, or you choose not to for whatever reason, then you should not receive compensation for that player. The restricted free agency mechanism is there for this exact purpose. We should be forcing clubs to use it, not allowing them to just let players walk knowing they’ll be given a nice reward.
 
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