The average Aussie Rules player will earn more than 300 thousand dollars a season from next year if the players' union says yes to a new pay deal.
The AFL has boosted its pay offer to players to 1.4 billion over the next five years - a deal it says will lift players' average salaries by 11 per cent in 2012.
But the league has again refused to budge on the players' major demand - that they are paid a fixed percentage of revenue.
The minimum rookie wage will now be 61 thousand dollars a year.
