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Hogan2014
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I wonder how Afl players are feeling knowing they are getting 50% of their contract vs their assistant coaches & other club assistants have been sent home with zero???

How is this in line with community& the broader population & with so many people who have lost their jobs & lining up @ Centrelink. 

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    19 hours ago, Hogan2014 said:

    I wonder how Afl players are feeling knowing they are getting 50% of their contract vs their assistant coaches & other club assistants have been sent home with zero???

    How is this in line with community& the broader population & with so many people who have lost their jobs & lining up @ Centrelink. 

    It is now there for all to see. What a lot have suspected is now obvious. They are tone deaf.

    I am sad because it represents the probable end for me. What started out for me in 1960 as fun and the way to enjoy your Saturday afternoons will end with scorn for a bunch of self centred ego maniacs. This 21st century lot have IMO lost the plot.

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    Don’t be to harsh on the players, majority are 25 & under, so haven’t lived through difficult times and are still maturing as people.

    I’ve seen it over last 15 years running a company bringing on 10-20 grads a year, they are still young and have a lot to learn about life in general! But large majority are really good people, if perhaps living with great expectations.

    AFL players live in a bubble, not many really seem to understand the day to day world most people live in! Over the next 3,6 maybe 18 months they will!

    It’s better we band together and support one another in this time of crisis, and perhaps help educate the AFL players who don’t get it, rather than crucify them!

     

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    Following on from my post above, you then listen to Craig Williams speak on the radio about Coronavirus! Massive difference, caring about his whole industry and community, and to be seen as a challenge faced by everyone together.

    The big difference is Craig’s 41, married, 4 kids, lived in other countries, has a lot of worldly experiences to put things in perspective.
     

    Our footballers just don’t!

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    4 hours ago, D4Life said:

    Following on from my post above, you then listen to Craig Williams speak on the radio about Coronavirus! Massive difference, caring about his whole industry and community, and to be seen as a challenge faced by everyone together.

    The big difference is Craig’s 41, married, 4 kids, lived in other countries, has a lot of worldly experiences to put things in perspective.
     

    Our footballers just don’t!

    Any of our players putting their mitts out for 50% while no games are played had better come back in ripping nick.

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    Jack Martin demanded a front loaded contract with $1mill in 2020 just so he could get to the Blues. Ha!

    Whilst $500k is nothing to sneeze at, I wonder if he'll sulk that the remainder of his contract is significantly lower.

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    11 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    Jack Martin demanded a front loaded contract with $1mill in 2020 just so he could get to the Blues. Ha!

    Whilst $500k is nothing to sneeze at, I wonder if he'll sulk that the remainder of his contract is significantly lower.

    Players were being fully paid until games were suspended. Their salary is not just paid during the paying time, so the hit they are taking is nowhere the 50% they would like you to think it is.

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