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I don't get what the pay to those guys has to do with Roberton. Can you explain. Of course we have to overpay them otherwise they wont leave. Nearly every good player that leaves a club gets overpaid at their next club.
I don't get what the pay to those guys has to do with Roberton. Can you explain. Of course we have to overpay them otherwise they wont leave. Nearly every good player that leaves a club gets overpaid at their next club.
Now fit your best 22 plus 6 to cover and another 12 plus rookies into that cap. If you overpay any player by a fair margin over replacement then it means you either have to trade out players and go young, which affects your depth. The other option is to kick the can down the road and underpay say billings and take a chance by letting him come out of contract and lose him to a higher bidder.
The whole list management job is one long balancing act mixed in with Texas holdem poker, robbo has called our bluff next it will be a Ross or paddy McCartin. As we like to say about GWS you can't keep them all, this is where paying hickey to play two's is unsustainable, going long on armo in hindsight etc.
Yes you always pay a premium to get an A grader in the door but the more you overpay against replacement value the more difficult it is to manage your cap and retain a winning list.

