ELMORE has added to its on-ball brigade with the signings of Alex Gleeson and Luke Ryan for the 2015 Heathcote District Football League season.
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Gleeson has spent the past two seasons with West Preston-Lakeside, where he was an assistant coach with the Northern Football League club.
Before his switch to West Preston-Lakeside, Gleeson spent five years as captain of Essendon District Football League club Oak Park, which included skippering the club’s 2009 premiership.
Gleeson was an EDFL Team of the Year member in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Ryan was a member of Romsey’s undefeated Riddell District Football League premiership team this year.
Ryan has also won a best and fairest with Koondrook-Barham in 2013 and played in the EDFL with Oak Park.
“These two players give us genuine ball-winning ability and they are committed to pushing Elmore up the ladder,” Bloods coach Stephen Arthur said on Wednesday.
Elmore has finished on the bottom of the HDFL ladder the past two seasons, during which it has won just one game.
Meanwhile, the AFL Victoria working party that is examining the escalating costs of player payments at community level has indicated guidelines to be trialled in 2015 will be announced before Christmas.
“The working party agrees that any salary cap mechanism needs to be tailored for specific regions to incorporate demographic and geographic challenges faced by individual leagues across the state,” AFL Victoria general manager Steven Reaper said at a conference on Wednesday.
“It also understands a salary cap needs to be supported by other measures, such as a player points system or an alternative equalisation provision to have the desired impact on escalating player payments and must also be enforceable.
“Provisions such as a player points system already operate in some Victorian leagues and if implemented state-wide would also need to be tailored to individual leagues and or regions.
“A trial will take place across a selection of metropolitan and country leagues next year and be thoroughly examined before being implemented state-wide in 2016.”