http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-02-23/no-consent-no-trades-aflpa

The players look to the US when it suits them.

Teams should be able to trade players at their own desire.

Players are forcing through their own movement with blackmail and PR leverage.

Teams should be able to send players anywhere in the league, as long the contract they signed is honoured.

Contracts need to be between the player and the AFL to allow this.

Clearly the players want to control their own destiny. We can understand that.

It just to a large degree, destroys what the draft and salary cap were set up to achieve.

Clearly the players want to control their own destiny. We can understand that.It just to a large degree, destroys what the draft and salary cap were set up to achieve.

I suspect the day they achieve this goal will be the end for me.

The English soccer scene will then be the norm.

Here I was thinking that players are tradeable commodities whose main purpose was to serve the club that invested in them and better that club's list. They already have the power to be able to bail on a contract when they want to suit their needs- now they want to deny their employers rights to manage their own list for the betterment of their own ends. Just reeks of selfishness and entitlement.

Give an inch, watch these entitled brats take a mile. Who's running the show here?

"Players are not pieces of property to be traded or sold"

AFLPA CEO Paul Marsh

I found this humurous, what is this guy's perspective of the draft? Or is that their next mission?

The AFL really needs to start taking the power back on behalf of the clubs and on behalf of this competition being somewhere close to even.

Dont they already have veto ??

I'll say it. Clubs should not be able to trade players without their consent.

BUT this only applies if the AFLPA agrees to remove free agency and stops its players from forcing trades against the will of their club.

Is tone the AFL stood up to the players. If they don't like it, many other players would love the honour of playing AFL, and I reckon 95% of people would be happy to watch the players that wasn't too be there.

Its dog eat cat now

They want the right to break any contract they want anytime and refuse to go to nother team when they get traded?

Anything else you bogans?

Next they will want free tatts and prince Alberts.