Clubs that have stood down players/staff: Perth, CCM, Roar, Adelaide, Jets, WSW. Predicting WU and Nix next cabs off the rank. Leaving only the big 3.
I reckon there’s a better than even chance the next football season is sure to include some old NSL clubs.
There is no mechanism by which the Phoenix can "stand down" players/staff.
Closest thing to it would be redundancy, correct? But that would mean releasing them all from their contracts, meaning they'd all be free agents - not great if we hope to keep many of them around for next season.
Pretty sure that players aren't employees. Would be interesting to know what the terms of those contracts are, from memory they are all templated? Which means that the contracts that players in Aus are on would be the same as the contracts the Nix players on.
Really? That's a bit of sophistry. If you compare to say a plumber, the players can only have one job/person they work for and they don't have much flexibility about where and when they do a job.
An owner/operator plumber isn't the right comparison here. Essentially players (and coaching staff) are contractors. The background/admin staff I suspect could well be/are employees.
Either that or fixed term employment. My guess is they'll be contracts too, but unusual ones when you take into account transfers and the fact that they can't be terminated easily.