James Gallagher

The other thing at the moment I think we're seeing is I think more movement ultimately probably leads to a good balance in where the money's being spent.

And so I think there's an opportunity maybe to have a bit more flexibility and freedom of movement and that will necessarily balance out with the money spent.

Is there a world where player contracts are capped at a certain number of years?

Don't think so, Tom.

No.

I just can't.

Players are really restricted.

And I hear...

some concerns.

I don't see it as a problem.

I know, again, I'll go back to my time at North Melbourne and I'm probably giving away too much of their stuff, but they've got Luke Davies, Uniak, Nick Larkey, Harry Sheasel all locked in long-term.

There's no problem with those long-term contracts.

More often than not, they're a real positive for both player and club.

There's the occasional outlier where they don't quite work.

We shouldn't be making changes to the rules just because of a couple of outlier situations that don't work overly well.

And the other thing that the longer contracts do is they provide a really important safety net for players that are putting themselves at physical risk every week.

And I know there's been a lot of conversation in recent times about insurance and support and the like.

The best support players have is that certainty of contract.

We haven't worked through our priorities yet.

I've just got around to all the AFL clubs and I'll do the same with the AFL W clubs shortly, having caught up with them just after I started, but we'll go again in the next six weeks.