chaddy22 wrote: West Coast and Fremantle will pay $450,000 a year each for alignments with East Perth and Peel respectively for the next five years under an historic agreement clinched this week by the West Australian Football Commission.
WAFL clubs were last night briefed on the agreement which was signed on Monday night by the Royals, Thunder, Eagles and Dockers. The agreement will start in 2014, although some players will shift clubs next season as part of transitional arrangements
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WAFC chairman Frank Cooper and CEO Gary Walton hailed the agreement as "coming out of the industry" based on guiding principles put to them by WAFL and AFL clubs.
Both said the agreement was the result of a more mature football industry and not comparable to failed arrangements in place with Claremont, South Fremantle and East Perth a decade ago.
"We have done a lot of work on this and referenced it back to the key objectives that the WAFL clubs and AFL clubs gave us at the football summit about the integrity, history of the WAFL being protected and improving the financial sustainability of the WAFL and giving the AFL clubs what they are after in terms of their players playing, training and being managed," Cooper said. "We think this delivers on all of those."
Under the agreement:
- The alignments must stay in place for a minimum of five years, with 20 months notice to be given to terminate even after five years
- The seven non-partner clubs will have their annual grants increased from $425,000 to $525,000. Of the $100,000 increase, $70,000 can be used in year-to-year operations, $20,000 must be put towards building assets and $10,000 towards improving technology
- Partner clubs will receive grants totalling $350,000. They are expected to make up the difference in saved recruiting costs, salary cap savings, coaching staff savings and medical staff savings
Apparanly I was wrong.The g7 clubs only received $100,000 a year extra to allow the Eagles and dockers
to have alignment clubs.
I have highlighted the relevant section that refutes your claim that the WAFL clubs agreed to extra payments to agree to the host club alignment. It was presented as a fait accompli to the WAFL clubs.
