Australian Football League side Adelaide appears to have accepted why Patrick Dangerfield is leaving, but it has yet to reveal its hand in the compensation process with Geelong, and Adelaide CEO Andrew Fagan "has left no doubt about the club's dissatisfaction with the system," according to Ashley Porter of THE AGE. Fagan said that Australian football had an "immature approach" and labeled its system as basically "half pregnant." Fagan also suggested that the AFL free agency structure "was something that would get bigger, broader and wider." Fagan: "I come from a free-agent environment, and I think that perhaps we're still a little immature in that regard." He added, "It's because the system probably just doesn't cater for it appropriately at the moment. But the rules that are in place are the rules that are in place and as far as we're concerned we will be working our way through." Fagan did not reveal how Adelaide would respond to the free agency move, "only expressing the obvious that Adelaide had already taken on a 'club first' approach" (THE AGE, 9/24).
