Barb trading between the AFL and international rock royalty Meat Loaf continues, after the CEO of Australia's most powerful sport joked the musician's grand final day efforts were worth around $1000, rather than the estimated half million spent.

League boss Gillon McLachlan responded, on Friday, to a recent remark reported from Meat Loaf that the AFL were "the cheapest people I've ever seen in my life".

The AFL has not lived down commissioning what was roundly reviewed as a flop 12-minute set from the iconic performer on Australian football's biggest day in 2011, which cost the league somewhere between $500,000-$600,000.