The AFL and AFL Players Association have agreed to a one-year deal that significantly boosts the salaries of AFLW players, but some issues remain unresolved. AFLW AFL
with pre-season for the upcoming August season to start soon.
The one-year deal maintains the season at 10 rounds as the AFL preferred, despite Essendon, Hawthorn, Sydney and Port Adelaide entering the competition. There will now be an extra week of finals, with a top eight introduced for the now 18-team, 540-player competition. “But, there is a lot to get done and to try to knock it over a three-year deal – with all the detail that’s to be resolved – as much as we tried, I don’t think we could get there so quickly.”
“It’s a bit of a relief because our off-seasons are typically really long,” Kearney said. “We’re really competitive, we want to be growing the game and a lot of the work that we were doing was when we weren’t getting paid.”
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