AFL wants power to force player trades

[woodys_world69]

wont work

we already have little babies coming into the league that want a trade back home because they miss their mommy...
so the trade will just be some talent wasted for a year or two before they get dropped into the draft and picked up by another club.


total waste of talent. this is not a solution...fix the root cause...kids not being mature or "ready" to be AFL players and live away from home.

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

Any ideas how to fix that?

[What'sinaname]

^

Exactly. Players would have to grow a pair or not play.

It will 100% happen.

[Pies2016]

It will happen at some stage but it will happen in a more diluted form than some of the slave trade conversations above. At the end of the day, it’s really up to the player how he sells himself in any trade that he might not want to be a part of. If his parent club wants to trade him and the player isn’t keen on his potential destination club, then the player simply expresses his concerns for not performing at his best in the new environment ( ultimately it will fall on the destination club to win him over ) No club wants to invest in a player that doesn’t want to be there and the players know that.
Draftees have been doing it for years. They deliberately present poorly at the interstate interviews and put on the best behaviour for their home state interviews. Point being, they have all learned this stuff from an early age. It worked beautifully for L D-U.

Alternatively, let’s say a quality player and his parent club can’t come to an agreement and as a flow on, that player then receives a number of offers from other clubs. Quite possibly, the best offer is from interstate but the player doesn’t want to move interstate because he has a young family in Vic. At that point the parent club simply starts conversations with the next best home town offer ( and any others that had shown interest ) and attempts to have their offer increased to get closer to that best interstate offer. That sounds like a win - win scenario for all parties. The parent club receives maximum compensation, the player stays in Vic ( if that was important to him ) and the destination club now has the player they want ( albeit they probably coughed up a little more than they first hoped )
There’s a lot of ways to skin a cat in all this, so we should all be a little measured in our assumptions before these changes have even been flagged yet.

[neil]

You cannot sell a player contract against the will of the player
The AFL had this system in place a number of years ago
And it was SHIT and was a terrible look

[Mr Miyagi]

AFL also pushing for three-year locked in contract for draftees.