Not sure if anyone posted this last night, but found this interesting:
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/147559/default.aspx
"ST KILDA coach Scott Watters has denied his club is facing salary cap pressures and says it
can be "aggressive" in the coming free agency period."
I sincerely hope that if we lose Goddard, as it seems likely we will, that we don't go out and blow our compo pick for losing him by picking up someone else through FA that isn't particularly good.
If we want someone like that I would much prefer we trade someone, or a lower pick for them, rather than blow a mid first round compo draft pick in order to get them.
And if we have all this money that we can be "aggressive" through free agency, why don't we put some more of that money into Goddard's contract offer? We will almost certainly have to pay "overs" to get someone from another club, so I would much prefer we pay someone who has bled for our club and loves it "overs", rather than someone who is mainly just coming here for the money and cares little about us at all. I reckon that would stink if we did that.