{"id":181619,"date":"2025-03-03T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181619"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:16:31","slug":"tom-elliott-understands-controversial-decision-not-to-pay-vflw-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181619","title":{"rendered":"Tom Elliott understands controversial decision not to pay VFLW players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom Elliott says he can understand why several VFL Women\u2019s clubs have opted not to pay their players this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Port Melbourne and Essendon VFLW players have had their player payments withdrawn for the 2025 campaign, sparking outrage from the respective playing groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings<\/em>&nbsp;host said while crowds and general interest remained low, it was hard to justify increasing budgets for second-tier women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click PLAY to hear Tom Elliott\u2019s thoughts on the story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Tom Elliott understands controversial decision not to pay VFLW players\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/tom-elliott-understands-controversial-decision-not\/embed#?secret=UCOFUJeQu0\" data-secret=\"UCOFUJeQu0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Elliott says he can understand why several VFL Women\u2019s clubs have opted not to pay their players this season. Port Melbourne and Essendon VFLW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":181620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,35],"tags":[8054,15587,15411,11298],"class_list":["post-181619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-breaking-news","tag-3aw","tag-essendon-vflw","tag-port-melbourne","tag-tom-elliott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181621,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181619\/revisions\/181621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}