Carlton skipper Chris Judd will meet with the AFL following the league's decision to include his third-party deal with Visy in the club's salary cap. Source: Herald Sun
AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson has welcomed a looming meeting with Chris Judd to explain the decision to scrap his Visy third-party agreement.
Judd is expected to meet Anderson on his return from an Arizona training camp to plead his case that the $200,000 ambassadorial role should be outside the cap.
Anderson, supremely confident in the reasons behind the crackdown, told the Herald Sun last night: "I have no problem meeting with him and going through it. I've sent his manager (Paul Connors) a letter explaining the decision and the factors we thought were relevant and I'm happy to go through them with Chris."
Under league procedures, Judd will go to the grievance tribunal only if the parties cannot settle the dispute within 14 days of the meeting.
Anderson said there were warnings as early as March 2010 that the rules would be tightening. The crackdown is linked to the advent of free agency, which puts more pressure on club caps.
Anderson said other third-party deals had been knocked back, but had not made the papers. The Carlton skipper's third-party knockback was revealed by the AFL only after an inquiry from the Herald Sun.
The AFL has also moved to smash the perception that Judd had signed a six-year deal with Visy.
Judd's four-year deal was up for renewal, with his management wanting the AFL to sign off on a two-year extension. That was knocked back under the new tightening of third-party rules.
Anderson is adamant the reasons have been explained in detail, even though Carlton on Friday complained it received only a two-sentence explanation.
He said an overlapping of governance led to third-party fears, pointing to the fact that Jeanne Pratt, of the Visy empire, was vice-president of Carlton.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire yesterday maintained the rage against third-party deals, calling for a full audit of all financial agreements.
"I'm fighting for equality -- I'm fighting for one rule that everyone can actually work out and be able to do the deals with their players," McGuire told Triple M.
But AFL Players' Association chief Matt Finnis said the furore paled into insignificance when compared with the growing gap between footy's richest and poorest clubs.
"Whilst independent agreements need to be monitored and adhere to the rules, the bigger focus here must be on the broader equalisation of the competition and the teams who play within it," Finnis said.
"And where you have got a disparity of up to four or five million dollars in football department spending across teams, those kind of numbers make the payments that are approved to players as independent agreements pale into insignificance."
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