AFLW - Bombers poaching Velcro - Maddy P and Georgia G set to flee

[DJC]

Just thinking about this in light of Gil stepping down. There was a short (but involved) list of things he's going to do this year before he goes and one of them was new CBA for the mens and for the womens comp.

Which got me thinking....
How can players be poached, when they don't know what the salary cap is going to be?

It may turnout that we could've quite easily matched bombers offers for the girls once the new figures come out, but we'll never know.

I've said it a million times, but until the comp is truly national, not a trumped up state of origin competition it will be a farce.

The thing is that Prespakis and Gee will be Essendon's marquee players and will corner a sizeable chunk of their TPP.  That may mean that Essendon will struggle to recruit/pay other highly-rated players and will go into the season with a couple of good players and a VFLW team.

I wrote in another thread that I thought that the way Prespakis goes about her footy, combined with the way she is hammered by her opponents and not protected by the umpires, is unsustainable and a short career is inevitable unless something changes.  Moving to Essendon is not the change that I envisaged and I don't think we'll see Maddy with a long career.

Gee is a smart player and I think that we'll feel her loss more than Maddy's.  However, Gee's strength is getting on the end of chains of possession and finishing off well.  I'm not sure that Essendon will have the ability to force opponents to play to Georgia's strengths.