An uneasy relationship between the AFLPA and AFLW players had to be resolved to level the playing field for the women’s competition.
AFL Players Association boss Paul Marsh admits he had to get his own house in order before achieving the most complicated collective bargaining agreement in the game’s history.a complex $2.2 billion, five-year pay deal
Gender workplace advocate Prue Gilbert quit the AFLPA’s women football advisory group, saying the union had failed over four years to provide a level playing field for the women’s competition. “If you’re going to run a body that represents AFLW players and genuinely to be representing them we needed to ask ourselves: ‘How do we resolve this?’ We developed a vision to change.”
The results of the project – Box was later recruited by the AFL to study the roles of women in football departments across the 18 clubs – led to Marsh finally appointing Julia Chiera 12 months ago as the players’ association’s head of AFLW. And three AFLW players, including Phillips, were added to his board.
Frustrated at not having achieved 17 home-and-away games by 2027, a level of disenchantment lingers among the players, but the prevailing view is that Marsh and his lieutenant Brett Murphy fought valiantly for their increased annual fixture. By all reports there was occasional tension too in the corridors of the Cattery, around the time Geelong’s AFLW players overwhelmingly rejected the original CBA proposal put to them by Marsh.
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