Tom Morris

That's ultimately their call.

The mid-season trade period has been on the cards for many years, probably four or five years now.

And it's been written in that you've been open to negotiating it and seeing if it can work, but it still is not a thing despite support from some clubs.

Why is that?

It's a good question.

It hasn't actually come up for me since I've started.

I know we've opened the door to it in the last CBA.

That was a fair while ago now.

I think broadly, more player movement's a good thing for the game.

So we're certainly open to that conversation.

Some clubs have some concerns about whether it would equally apply for all 18 clubs.

I think there's ways to navigate those concerns, but the ball's in the AFL's court, and if they want to pursue it, we're certainly up for working through the detail of that with them.

A question on the salary cap.

Do you think the best players in footy are being paid enough?

I'm talking about the top end, the superstars.

Yeah.

Our job is to negotiate the cap and the minimum salary, and then it's over to the clubs to work their way through that in between.

I think what we've seen is some significant increases in payments in recent times because the cap's gone up.

probably want to see that continue to go forward.

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.