Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
Demonland

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Impending Free Agency

e25
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Posted

An interesting article about some developments in the US which could drastically change the landscape of their sporting codes.

This will most dramatically affect free agency and player salaries; since we may/will soon be heading down that path, these could be changes that will affect our leagues.

Granted our legal system is different, but I wouldn't be too surprised if we followed suit.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/sto...&id=4336261

Its kinda long and boring but essentially the leagues could be given the power to determine what salary bracket a player can fit into or which teams a player could sign with and the player would have no way to appeal in the courts.

Essentially the leagues become immune to any sort of antitrust legal action.

Edited by Enforcer25

  • Quote
    •  

    Interesting read. In some ways I'd be prepared to pay more for games / merchandise etc if it meant that 10 brown, recycled, 500k paper bags (the FA equal of the usual 1) could not be used to stomp on the less financial and destroy their team.

  • Quote
    This will most dramatically affect free agency and player salaries; since we may/will soon be heading down that path, these could be changes that will affect our leagues.

    Granted our legal system is different, but I wouldn't be too surprised if we followed suit.

    What makes you say that? Why would a legal win for the NFL and other leagues impact on the AFLPA's move towards free agency?

    IMO it's an entirely different landscape here, but I'll be interested to see if you're thinking of something that didn't occur to me when I read the article.

    Regardless, it was an interesting read :)

  • Quote
    •  
    • Author
    What makes you say that? Why would a legal win for the NFL and other leagues impact on the AFLPA's move towards free agency?

    IMO it's an entirely different landscape here, but I'll be interested to see if you're thinking of something that didn't occur to me when I read the article.

    Regardless, it was an interesting read :)

    It will greatly affect the landscape for those leagues and since we will soon be heading down the path of free agency ours could take a similar form.

    Obviously it would need our courts to make a similar ruling, but a legal precedent would have been set overseas if the NFL wins and that precedent would carry some weight, albeit a very very small amount.

    Its not likely, but it is feasible that this could have some sort of affect.

    Maybe the AFL will see this and decide to stiff a supplier to create legal action and then try to get a similar ruling..?

    There is not a direct relation to AFL, only that it changes the global sporting landscape.

  • Quote

    • Archived

    This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • AFLW REPORT: Port Adelaide

      Well, that was a shock. The Demons 4-game unbeaten run came to a grinding halt in a tense, scrappy affair at the sunny, windy Alberton Oval, with the Power holding on for a 2-point win. The Dees had their chances—plenty of them—but couldn't convert when it mattered most. Port’s tackling pressure rattled the Dees, triggering a fumble frenzy and surprising lack of composure from seasoned players.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • Welcome to Demonland: Steven King

      The Melbourne Football Club has selected a new coach for the 2026 season appointing Geelong Football Club assistant coach Steven King to the head role.

        • Like
      • 803 replies
      Demonland

    • AFLW PREVIEW: Port Adelaide

      The undefeated Demons venture across the continent to the spiritual home of the Port Adelaide Football Club on Saturday afternoon for the inaugural match for premiership points between these long-historied clubs. Alberton Oval will however, be a ground familiar to our players following a practice match there last year. We lost both the game and Liv Purcell, who missed 7 home and away matches after suffering facial fractures in the dying moments of the game.

      • 1 reply
      Demonland

    • AFLW REPORT: Richmond

      A glorious sunny afternoon with a typically strong Casey Fields breeze favouring the city end greeted this round four clash of the undefeated Narrm against the winless Tigers. Pre-match, the teams entered the ground through the Deearmy’s inclusive banner—"Narrm Football Weaving Communities Together and then Warumungu/Yawuru woman and Fox Boundary Rider, Megan Waters, gave the official acknowledgement of country. Any concerns that Collingwood’s strategy of last week to discombobulate the Dees would be replicated by Ryan Ferguson and his Tigers evaporated in the second quarter when Richmond failed to use the wind advantage and Narrm scored three unanswered goals. 

        • Thanks
      • 4 replies
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Frankston

      The late-season run of Casey wins was broken in their first semifinal against Frankston in a heartbreaking end at Kinetic Stadium on Saturday night that in many respects reflected their entire season. When they were bad, they committed all of the football transgressions, including poor disposal, indiscipline, an inability to exert pressure, and some terrible decision-making, as exemplified by the period in the game when they conceded nine unanswered goals from early in the second quarter until halfway through the third term. You rarely win when you do this.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • AFLW PREVIEW: Richmond

      Round four kicks off early Saturday afternoon at Casey Fields, as the mighty Narrm host the winless Richmond Tigers in the second week of Indigenous Round celebrations. With ideal footy conditions forecast—20 degrees, overcast skies, and a gentle breeze — expect a fast-paced contest. Narrm enters with momentum and a dangerous forward line, while Richmond is still searching for its first win. With key injuries on both sides and pride on the line, this clash promises plenty.

        • Haha
      • 3 replies
      Demonland
    View All

    Configure browser push notifications
    Chrome (Android)
    1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
    2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
    3. Adjust your preference.
    Chrome (Desktop)
    1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
    2. Select Site settings.
    3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.