(10-17-2016, 10:42 PM)Navy Maven link Wrote:I chose the rookie as the lowest paid player on an AFL list. The lowest paid player in the AFL is earning more than double the proposed figure of the highest paid womens player, and over 11 times more than the regular draftees.
The lowest paid AFL rookie earns about four or five times the highest paid VFL player, but for now the VFL will draw far more spectators than AFLW will.
In the short term the best the AFLW can expect is to be curtain raisers, but for that to happen the AFL and clubs must spend big money on facilities and marketing. In the long term the money will improve, and it's bad luck for those getting in early, but it's always that way for a new commercial sport. There may be long term careers in AFLW open to the early participants, but it's certainly the case late comers will earn more.
Still I reiterate my earlier point, there are guys who would pay for this opportunity. Why are there people trying to scupper the AFLW process before it gets off the ground?
Half the girls haven't even signed on the line yet and the complaints are rising, perhaps the wage is deliberately set low to weed out those only in it for the money versus those who really love the sport.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"