Low respect, unpaid overtime: AFLW issues highlighted by report

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The Players' Association has recommended a greater commitment to allocate increased resources to AFLW programs, particularly in the areas of medical and rehabilitation. agerealfooty marnievinall

canvassed AFLW players last season, prior to the recent collective bargaining agreement, and found 83 per cent felt the AFLW program isn’t fully integrated within their club.

Additionally, 23 per cent of players said they found the AFL to view their programs with ‘more disrespect than not’ to ‘extremely low respect’. These resources included the availability of medical staff and physiotherapists at the club, coaching staff, football administrative staff and equipment and facilities.Credit:“The resourcing is something that we’re pushing for – so we pushed for that in the CBA we just did and we made some improvements – but more is still needed,” said Marsh.

Availability of club doctors and access to strength, conditioning and nutrition support was rated as less than sufficient by almost one quarter of players . This is particularly concerning given theThe report showed most players were required to take on additional unpaid sessions, with 42 per cent saying this was on a weekly basis and 52 per cent saying it was ‘some of the time’.

“We’ll continue to keep an eye on that but actually the change of CBA and the culture around this is actually changing,” said Marsh.

 

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agerealfooty marnievinall When are they going to make the grounds they play on smaller so the game is less shit?

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