The Gold Coast SUNS wish to advise that the club has received notification of the contract offer from the Richmond Football Club for restricted free agent, Tom Lynch.
As per the guidelines provided by the AFL, the club will have three days to make a decision on whether to match the offer presented by the Richmond Football Club or not.
The club will consider the offer and once a decision has been made this will be communicated.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
MATCHING OFFERS
A contract offer is matched if the football payments and ASAs are equivalent under the offer and the contract proposed by the player’s current club. To qualify as a matching offer, the player’s current club must make an offer on the same terms as the new offer tabled by the player including:
- Contract length;
- Base payments;
- Total match payments;
- Total ASA payments;
Total performance incentives based on AFL awards or honours, club best and fairest finish or games played (not including finals). Any incentives for team performance do not have to be matched. A player cannot table an offer to be matched for less than a two-year contract length.
COMPENSATION
A club that has a net loss of players transferring to/from other clubs as free agents in one transfer period is entitled to compensation via National Draft picks allocated by the AFL.
The compensation formula produces a points rating for players based on:
- The new contract of the free agent;
2. The age of the free agent.
Draft picks are allocated to clubs based on the net total points for free agents lost and gained during the transfer period.
Draft picks will be allocated to one of five places:
- 1st round
- end of 1st round
- 2nd round
- end of 2nd round
- 3rd round
In applying the formula, an expert committee reviews the formula outcomes. The committee has the power to recommend alternative outcomes to GM – Football Operations where the formula produces a materially anomalous result.
