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‘Unnecessarily provocative’: Dons backpedal after player pay email – The Age

Essendon have been forced to backpedal after upsetting their players with an email on Friday night telling them the club was planning to withhold nine per cent…

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The email, from chief executive Xavier Campbell and which The Age has seen, said the club would meet with players to discuss the plan for how to apply the AFL cuts to the salary cap but as a starting position they would withhold nine per cent of player salaries in the November pay period.
A subsequent email on Friday night said this withheld nine per cent in November was “a holding pattern while we work out a working normal” in discussions with the players.
By Sunday morning, the club had agreed…

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