words of wisdom wrote:spot on wrote:words of wisdom wrote:What a round of results - Premiership table is very interesting. Going to be a great second half of the year!
Big changes coming to country footy next year with the CFB capping player payments. Hearing the max you can pay a player is the SANFL league minimum.
How are they going to control the money in the brown paper bag in the carpark.
Agree - it will hard to police but if you get caught i'm hearing the following - No premiership points for 2 years - Game day points will be zero, no recruits - Huge fines. The president of each club will have to sign a stat dec to say that there is no under the table payments - if found guilty there will be legal action.
The latest is that all contracts will need to be submitted to CFL for approval. Statutory Declarations to be signed by each contracted player at the end of each season to confirm they have not received any benefits from any source as a result of playing football outside of what was stated in the contract and will be ineligible to register for the following season until received by the CFL.
$10,000 maximum fine to club
24 months maximum suspension to player
Loss of Premiership points for all games where breach player plays.
The CFL will be employing investigators to trawl social media for leads to breaches and players will be able to be summoned mid-season with a "Please Explain Notice". Clubs will be able to notify CFL when they make offers to players at the maximum level but the player signs elsewhere, each of these instances to be investigated with Statutory Declarations required from player and club officials indicating the terms of the agreement.
All players signing to country clubs direct from the SANFL will be automatically investigated.
Sounds like it is just going to be a headache to manage by volunteers at club level.