least of the problems , he would be on absolute peanuts.Bye Bye Rupert
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least of the problems , he would be on absolute peanuts.Bye Bye Rupert
Very true.I realise that mate, just saying: we've got quite a bit of dead and dying wood to prune before we start worrying about where we'll find the $$$ for our guns. If the Tiges can bring in Lynch and have Dusty on a mill a year....anyone can!
They're a pretty shallow list though. They've gone for a stars and role players list. I don't know if that's the way to go.I realise that mate, just saying: we've got quite a bit of dead and dying wood to prune before we start worrying about where we'll find the $$$ for our guns. If the Tiges can bring in Lynch and have Dusty on a mill a year....anyone can!
They're a pretty shallow list though. They've gone for a stars and role players list. I don't know if that's the way to go.
Our salary cap is already stretched to absolute max, it's not that simple.
Hard to see a successful team having multiple $1m players. No cash for depth. St Kilda 2009-11 showed that you can have your 5-6 superstars but they can’t make up for the last 6 players in your 22 that can cost you games.
Hopefully North blew their cash on Polec and can’t artificially inflate salaries.
And how many of the other 17 clubs aren't in exactly the same situation?
Don't they all have to pay at least 95% of cap, so every club has to be pretty tight? They can probably front load contracts to get a bank, but I suspect we exaggerate the amount of that occurring except to fix up stuff ups. Seems a really short sighted strategy to me, as if you are a middling to low club who can bank some salary cap that way and use this banked cap to lure a star, you're going to run into issues once in a couple of years time when the front loading and bank has run out and the couple of years is when you're looking to get the real benefit from the star. Plus with front loaded contracts, you run the risk of the guy deciding to break contract because in the final years he can get paid a heap more elsewhere.
They already have.Time for a few of the older boys to take a pay cut in the interests of the future. I'm talking about your Sidebottoms and your Pendleburys.
They already have.
Why use half measures then make them pay the club for the priveledge of playing - rollseyes.gifFurther paycut?
I think you’ll find that Sidebottom is already on big unders. He’s the last guy who should be getting a paycut.Time for a few of the older boys to take a pay cut in the interests of the future. I'm talking about your Sidebottoms and your Pendleburys.
Unfortunately we only have one Sidebottom and one Pendlebury.Time for a few of the older boys to take a pay cut in the interests of the future. I'm talking about your Sidebottoms and your Pendleburys.
Surely Sidey is more than one player - he's often everywhere at once.Unfortunately we only have one Sidebottom and one Pendlebury.
And how many of the other 17 clubs aren't in exactly the same situation?
How many other clubs had their seniors players brought in to take pay cuts so they could squeeze another A grade midfielder in?
Surely Sidey is more than one player - he's often everywhere at once.
Wish we could have an embargo on the topic of AFL players 'delaying contract negotiations'. I still haven't recovered from the agony Cloke Inc put us through in 2012. Its horrible. Dont want or need to know. It adds such an avaricious dimension to footy which I know exists, but I'd rather be ignorant of.
Wish we could have an embargo on the topic of AFL players 'delaying contract negotiations'. I still haven't recovered from the agony Cloke Inc put us through in 2012. Its horrible. Dont want or need to know. It adds such an avaricious dimension to footy which I know exists, but I'd rather be ignorant of.
Cloke was one out of the box, never have I seen an AFL player have a segment of their own on a prime time footy show like he did and really de-rail a season for his own personal benefit. Could never like him after that year