An AFL legend has backed limits on how long AFL contracts can be after a spate of contracts with more than seven years attached were recently signed.<\/p>\n
Melbourne recently signed star midfielder Kysaiah Pickett until the end of 2034, while Fremantle signed their star Hayden Young until the end of 2033.<\/p>\n
There is also a host of stars signed until the end of 2032, seven years away, which are Connor Idun and Sam Taylor (GWS), Jai Newcombe (Hawks), Luke Davies-Uniacke (NM), Conor Rozee (PA), Noah Balta (RIC), Max King (STK) and Aaron Naughton (WB).<\/p>\n
Four-time premiership player and two-time Norm Smith Medallist Luke Hodge has backed the limit on how long an AFL contract can be.<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0Harry Sheezel ties AFL disposal record in massive North Melbourne win<\/a><\/p>\n “I actually don\u2019t mind the capped length of a contract,” Hodge said on\u00a0SEN’s\u00a0Crunch Time.<\/p>\n “If it was put in there, Melbourne wouldn\u2019t be in the position that they are, with three similar blokes (Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver and Kysaiah Pickett) with long-term deals that they can\u2019t move because they had the heavy money and long-term deals.”<\/p>\n Hodge conceded it went against what a lot of people were saying about not putting limits in, but wanted to protect clubs against themselves.<\/p>\n “But what we have seen in the past is people in football clubs make shocking decisions through desperation, and I don\u2019t think the future of that club should be held ransom because of it,” he said.<\/p>\n There are rumours that there will be more long-term deals with high-calibre players such as St Kilda’s Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera<\/a> and West Coast Eagles’ Harley Reid<\/a>, looking to sign lengthy deals to lock away their future.<\/p>\n There are talks that the AFL and the AFLPA will look into if contracts need to be limited in terms of years given at their next CBA negotiation<\/p>\n While players are keen for long contracts as it secures their future, it can hamper a club if they don’t live up to their expectations or are injured.<\/p>\n Consequently, if a player wants a trade, a club can show them their contract and keep them to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An AFL legend has backed limits on how long AFL contracts can be after a spate of contracts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-76230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}