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I don't mind financially helping the club. They obviously can't survive themselves without money being handed out to the them. That money is from the TV rights deal AND from the equalisation funds from profitable clubs. That money is to run the club and provide the funds to pay the players. What I don't agree with is using false "jobs" like ambassador payments outside the cap to give them a COLA type advantage. This is even worse than COLA as it only to keep one player. We all know that won't save the club. It is a myopic view that the AFL gets as a knee jerk reaction when they sense that a good player wants to possibly consider leaving their new expansion clubs. How have people like the GC recruiting team kept their jobs all these years when continually given the top talent in the land. How have the board kept their jobs by stuffing up coaching choices? To an outsider, there are more issues there to tackle and correct rather than artificially keeping a single player by paying him more money outside the cap in the guise of an ambassadorial role.

