Free Agency

[chammond]

I think people are too worried about free agency and look too easily to the English Premier League and Major League Baseball where the rich club rule. The facts are those leagues don't have any form of salary cap and thus free agency does effect results.

I think you're starting to argue against yourself here Robbie. The fact is, nobody, including the players, likes completely unfettered "free agency".

In most sports, free agency really means 'free in some ways but not in others' - a sort of corrupted free agency. The AFL already has a 'sort of' free agency in the shape of the pre-season draft - it's my bet that if the AFLPA come up with something different, it will merely be another form of controlled free agency - definitely not open slather.