Toby Green

And when I started, the average pay was $250,000 maybe.

And now we're getting into the $500,000s.

Yeah, that is obviously nice.

But AFL players will now experience more scrutiny.

There's more pressure.

There's more games.

Like I used to be able to hide behind a paywall and no one would talk about you on like a Saturday 2-10 game.

And Harold Robinson and Mike Sheehan had already written their articles.

So you were missed here and there.

And you just could dodge it.

It didn't follow you.

But now...

The money in the game means that professionalism has to go up in terms of everything and the risks mitigation goes down.

So players are getting put in more and more of a cocoon.

I think they're getting more separated from the real world.

And then they're also under more scrutiny.

So I think, A, the drop once you get out of that cocoon is further.

And then secondly, when you're in the cocoon, the pressure's heightened.

Yeah, and I think there's a pretty strong burning platform for change there.

Yeah, we've got some work to do.