James Gallagher
speaker
637 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Jul
James Gallagher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I keep reading about it.
We haven't got into it.
Yeah, that's right.
I expect it'll be something that gets thrown up when we sit down and start talking about the next collective bargaining agreement.
That'll start later this year.
So we're sort of not at a point yet of trading views on positions.
Would you consider it?
No.
Okay.
No.
I mean, we've got an extraordinarily restrictive game already.
There is very few long-term contracts that become problematic for player or club.
Now, there are the occasional ones, yeah, absolutely.
So not a big issue as a starting point, the way I look at it.
We know that the contract is the absolute best protection for our players who are putting themselves at physical risk every week.
The best safety net our players have, and we've talked a lot about insurance and concussion recently, the best one they have is a contract.
So taking that away or restricting that is really concerning.
And the other thing, and I've read reports and I've heard this directly from clubs, that they're not aligned in view on this.
And there's a really simple reason for that because the length of a contract is a really important lever in attracting players to come to your club.
And so if you're...
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