nos wrote:Survival of the Fittest...
Have heard that the league are working with CFL to prevent players chasing money outside of the Metro. The proposal I have heard is that if a player chooses to seek money outside of the Metro comp and does go to the country he will be band from returning to the city clubs for 3 years.
I think it will only make players choose carefully their playing career for 3 years!
Plus it only takes a bad year (drought) on the land for the well to dry up for those country clubs. Bad position to be in if you are a first year player in the country and knowing full well you cannot return to the city for 2 more years.
In return, country teams will actively discourage their juniors from going out to the league clubs.
What constitutes country as well? The SFL is still classified a country competition even though they are entirely within the Adelaide Metropolitan area. Much of the Hills FL is metro.
What about a lad that does a short term contract up at Roxby and plays for the local team there?
How many different clauses would they have to put into it?
All I can see happening out of this whole player cap thing is that the same players will just drive an extra hour across the border and play in the Wimmera FL or Horsham District FL or South West District FL