GEELONG superstar Patrick Dangerfield expects CBA negotiations with the AFL to heat up in the next few weeks, but both parties remain a long way apart. 

With the AFLPA reportedly set to reject the AFL's latest pay offer, the Brownlow medallist told KIIS FM the players were continuing to negotiate in good faith and wanted a resolution.

However he said the longer the negotiations continued, then the potential of stronger action from the players to have their demands met increased. 

"It's not about holding the AFL to ransom and getting as much as money as we possibly can as players," Dangerfield said.  

"We understand the role that we have within our game and the importance of growing it both nationally and internationally, but we also need to be rewarded for our input to the game." 

Dangerfield said there was still water to go under the bridge before agreement was reached and described the two parties as being "a long way apart".

"Things are progressing slowly," Dangerfield said. 

"The longer it goes the more potential I suppose there is that there may be a stronger action taken than is currently happening." 

The players want to share in the revenue the game generates through the course of the agreement after recognising the extent of the discrepancy between revenue projections that previous agreements have been based on and the AFL's eventual revenues.

The AFL has been working on a mechanism that gives players an opportunity to share in revenues they have the potential to directly impact. 

Dangerfield is the AFLPA vice-president and the most senior current player in the AFLPA hierarchy, with former Fremantle skipper Matthew Pavlich recently extending his term as AFLPA president by another year. 

Dangerfield said clubs were keen to get some certainty around their future total player payments structure with many contract negotiations being held up by the slow progress of the CBA negotiations.