{"id":30187,"date":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/leigh-s-left-field-solution-to-players-pay-battle\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","slug":"leigh-s-left-field-solution-to-players-pay-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/leigh-s-left-field-solution-to-players-pay-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh\u2019s left field solution to players pay battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Leigh Matthews has suggested a surprising solution to the AFL players pay impasse\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Less coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFooty to me has always been a players game,\u201d Leigh tells the FIVEAA sports show\u2026 \u201cbig field, no offside rule, no line of scrimmage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the fulltime era you\u2019ve still got 18 players on the field, but now you\u2019ve got another 20, 30 40 people that are non players that area actually coaching\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoaches are determining the way they want the game to be played more than just individual player initiative. On that basis, if we reduced the number of coaches to pay the players more, I\u2019m for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/297496092&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the amount of money that\u2019s being spent by football clubs, the percentage that is going to the players has reduced effectively over this last generation,\u201d Leigh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just believe the players got left behind, and that\u2019s why they want a percentage.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-are-claiming-a-huge-defection\"><strong>PORT ADELAIDE ARE CLAIMING A HUGE DEFECTION!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/local-reporter-drops-freo-dockers-bombshell\"><strong>REPORTER DROPS FREO DOCKERS BOMBSHELL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Matthews has suggested a surprising solution to the AFL players pay impasse\u2026 Less coaches. \u201cFooty to me has always been a players game,\u201d Leigh tells the FIVEAA sports show\u2026 \u201cbig field, no offside rule, no line of scrimmage.\u201d \u201cIn the fulltime era you\u2019ve still got 18 players on the field, but now you\u2019ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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