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Policy on the run as usual.

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    Amazing.

    What an odd day.

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    Bizarre. All they've done is follow the rules the AFL put in place. Sydney didn't introduce free agency or COLA.

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    Equalisation: ask Eddie how he would like to punish opposition clubs and introduce it without any due diligence.

    The inmates are running the asylum...

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    Has Gil lost the plot...yesterdays' fiasco with Port/Ess and now this with Syd!! Getting a bit worried about Gil...he can't seem to take an independent position on anything can he?

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    What a mess.

    Just kill the COLA stone dead now.

    Level playing field. All 18 clubs able to pay 100% of the salary cap (if they wish)

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    What a mess.

    Just kill the COLA stone dead now.

    Level playing field. All 18 clubs able to pay 100% of the salary cap (if they wish)

    hardly level wyl

    the cola to be replaced by afl paid rent allowance for lower paid players

    still the academy

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    Absolutely bizarre.

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    Full review of all player movement from top to bottom required incorporating all matters likely to impact it from mature aged rookies to COLA . I feel if the AFL don't address the anomalies, secrecy and transparency the clocks ticking, if it isn't already.

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    Total farce

    Middle of trade week

    Told they can't trade.

    Talk about making it up on the run

    Sydney apparently knew about it a couple of weeks back, It's only that the media have gotten wind of it in now

    DC, doesn't make sense to me either... assume it has something to do with phasing it out, and they don't want any players coming in and making use of it, and wanting them to be put onto the rent allowance scheme that is replacing it. As the existing players and their contracts expire or are renewed they are transitioned across as well.

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    Sydney were/are just playing by the rules the AFL created, now they are being punished for playing the game too well??? Just doesn't make sense. Sure it might even up the competition a little more, but it's a sheet message the AFL is sending the competition.

    Farcical decision IMO, may benefit the rest of the league, but it still makes it no less farcical.

    The Hawks have brought in just as many trades and FA recently (with less TPP's too), why aren't they being told the same thing?

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    Sydney apparently knew about it a couple of weeks back, It's only that the media have gotten wind of it in now

    DC, doesn't make sense to me either... assume it has something to do with phasing it out, and they don't want any players coming in and making use of it, and wanting them to be put onto the rent allowance scheme that is replacing it. As the existing players and their contracts expire or are renewed they are transitioned across as well.

    No, Gerard Healy reported it "On the Couch" a few weeks back. He, Dunstall and Sheahan were in disbelief.

    If the AFL have a problem this is not the way to handle it, I think they were really p...off about Buddy going to the Swans and not the Giants. Conflict of Interest/Lack of Integrity/ No balls to do the job/No transparency raises it's head again at the AFL

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    They are getting 800 extra in the cap next year, 600 the year after. It's hard to feel sorry for them even if these are silly conditions.

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    I hope the Dees go hard for Mitchell.

    Offer pick 3 for Mitchell and pick 18.

    They will reduce their salary cap by ~300 - 400K a year as he is replaced with a gun draftee to be put on minimum [AFL] wage.

    They'll be licking their lips having Heeney and a Petracca/ Brayshaw/ McCartin (10 year prospects).

    We'll have Mitchell and could pick up the likes of Cockatoo (if North don't grab him first).

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