Clubs allowed to ‘salary dump’ in a major change to AFL trade rules
A major policy change, allowing clubs to more easily dump the salaries of big-money players, could ignite next month’s AFL trade period.
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The AFL has made a major shift in player trading this year, officially allowing clubs to “salary dump”, or trade out players on big contracts for minimal draft return.
Such deals would previously have been blocked by the AFL. The change will allow clubs to more easily get a player’s contract off their books to ease the strain on their salary caps.
To be brutally honest, I thought this was already an accepted practice given the way SOS recently used it when turning over Carlton's list.