Right time for move to 14 teams despite AFLW impasse, says McLachlan

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Gillon McLachlan defends the pace of change in AFLW amid issues with players over season length, but the AFL chief steers clear of Toby Greene's case ahead of tonight's key tribunal hearing.

"We've been working on a three-year deal with the [AFL] Player's Association, and that obviously contemplates all aspects of the CBA — the terms, the season, lengths, the finals series," McLachlan told ABC.

"So that's with the PA at the moment, and they're working through it with the players — but what we're trying to provide for the players is a three-year certainty, so we can have that confidence going forward that I know the players are looking for. "We started really [talking] at the back end of season three, and we've got committed to 14 clubs coming in next year, so looking ahead and making decisions based on the next three years has been going on for the last three or four months."

Asked whether expansion should have been delayed if it was too difficult for teams to play each other once, McLachlan defended the plan. "There's lots of moving pieces in all this, about how quickly we expand the amount of clubs, how quickly we expand the season length, we're trying to have pathway of players coming through, so you're consulting as widely as you can and then make the best decision you can."I know our clubs who haven't had [AFLW] licences don't feel whole — and so we're trying to expand at the right speed, and I feel OK about going from 10 to 14 teams next year.

 

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