Grump wrote: OK back onto the topic.
The points process for recruits seems from comments (or my interpretation which will always be a bit suss) is that there should be a weighting for clubs who finish in the top four the previous season. So premiers get 3 extra points for any recruit, 2 and 3 get 2 and fourth get one. This applies to any player coming back to the wafl from AFL, any player coming from lesser comps like VFL, SANFL, Ammos etc or moving from one WAFL club to another.
The salary process is set on the list as at 1 March each season with each club providing that to the WAFC and is NOT subject to change unless special circumstances apply and are agreed to by a panel made up of three club CEO's and a WAFC board member, The list is published and the TOTAL salary plan is also published - so club A has 50 players and will spend $103k for the season ( only the WAFC know what each players is paid) - Club B has 48 players being paid $103K and so on.
The circumstances which would apply is when a player retires or gets sacked, is placed on an IR list (long term injury over 6 weeks) in this IR case the club which would still have some obligation to continue that players salary can get another player and are allowed to pay the new player upto a set amount for each game they play ressies or league. When the player resumes FULL training and is fit the replacement players is delisted. Clubs would need to publish a list of probable replacements at seasons start.
At the end of the season the WAFC then do the due diligence on what the lists were and the amounts paid and that is published. ALL group cert's ( oops old term at the time of writing could not recall new terminology) are issued by the WAFC unless it is WP which would be issued by the State government (only joshing). This would allow an audit process of what is said and what is reality cos you do not want to annoy the ATO.
The last point any person listed and employed by a club as a coach CANNOT play more than three games per year and ALL coaches must be listed on the player list provided and published by the WAFC. In addition any wife or partner employed by a club in any capacity must be employed full time so no Diesel Williams crap!
The biggest flaws for me is the under the table cash, the white goods, rent etc but that will always be the fly in the ointment.
Rip to shreds at your leisure but please try to be on topic!
Grump adding 2 or 3 points per player is not a big enough disincentive and doesn't take into account the significance of a top player moving from a bottom team to a top team. The disincentive must be draconian enough that if a top club goes down that path then that club is severely impacted by such a decision. Pac-man doesn't like my idea of it being a very high percentage of the overall points cap: that in and of itself is a glowing endorsement for that suggestion to be adopted.
The salary cap is too easily circumvented; so the points cap with higher points associated with top clubs recruiting from lower placed clubs and a tightening of when a player can be placed outside the points cap. To tighten when a player can be dropped from the points cap, there could be a provision that any player removed from a club's point cap would not be able to play in any grade for a minimum of 4 games and would be ineligible to play in the club's league team for a minimum of 8 games.
