Afl Is Trading On Its Isolation For Protection

PREDICTABLY, rugby league defector Sonny Bill Williams is threatening to hit the NRL with a writ to say that its salary cap is a restraint of trade. But experts say a salary cap - like the AFL's - is unlawful in the same way a nuclear bomb is a weapon: unarguably, but also improbable that it ever will be exploded. In nearly a quarter of a century, the AFL's button has not been pushed.