Local Australian rules football clubs are paying large amounts of money to secure top players. Some say it’s corrupting the spirit of community sport
game for a regional Victorian team that was paying him and two mates $700 each a week, and he’d never been to his new home ground.
It was 2016 and the town, which in that year’s census had recorded a population of fewer than 100 people, needed players. Such is the often strange world of semi-professional Australian rules footballers, some of whom are said to be paid more than $60,000 for a 20-week season – almost double what the best players in the AFLW competition make .
There is something harder to define too, about how paying for players undermines the wholesomeness of community sport. “But with the cost of living and mortgages – and they’re young men – it’s easy to go to the highest bidder.” He isn’t offering more than $300 a game, but has heard clubs in the same league are paying as much as $1,000.
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