Post NEAFL. Club 'loyalty' in QAFL?

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This topic keeps coming up in different threads, as the QAFL suddenly has a development in standard of competition strength due to the influx of NEAFL players going forward. This topic needs its own thread.

Club/player loyalty. 1st look from a clubs view;

What comes 1st? Loyalty to supporters, sponsors in trying to get the best team on the park possible? Or should a club be loyal to players that come through their juniors system that perhaps arent of a standard one can get 'on the market'?

From a players perspective; Does a player stay at a club where he feels he is overlooked or underpaid? A player has a short career span. Should he do whats best for himself, or for a club that will drop him like a hammer when his performance tapers off with age?

Player loyalty costs him money and perhaps opportunity. Club loyalty costs them premierships, sponsors, supporters and ultimately money if they stick with fading players through loyalty.

Is there really loyalty in footy at the top level? Is it a common or rare commodity? How important is it, and whom does it benefit? In reality do players and clubs mostly really just look out for whats best for them, or is club/player loyalty something that is only found mostly in the lower divisions?

Do the top QAFL clubs and players even expect loyalty beyond a contract?


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This topic keeps coming up in different threads, as the QAFL suddenly has a development in standard of competition strength due to the influx of NEAFL players going forward. This topic needs its own thread.

Club/player loyalty. 1st look from a clubs view;

What comes 1st? Loyalty to supporters, sponsors in trying to get the best team on the park possible? Or should a club be loyal to players that come through their juniors system that perhaps arent of a standard one can get 'on the market'?

From a players perspective; Does a player stay at a club where he feels he is overlooked or underpaid? A player has a short career span. Should he do whats best for himself, or for a club that will drop him like a hammer when his performance tapers off with age?

Player loyalty costs him money and perhaps opportunity. Club loyalty costs them premierships, sponsors, supporters and ultimately money if they stick with fading players through loyalty.

Is there really loyalty in footy at the top level? Is it a common or rare commodity? How important is it, and whom does it benefit? In reality do players and clubs mostly really just look out for whats best for them, or is club/player loyalty something that is only found mostly in the lower divisions?

Do the top QAFL clubs and players even expect loyalty beyond a contract?


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What a giant waste of energy
 

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