It's funny, it's never said that the Vic clubs are exploiting their locals despite many of them being paid below market value
He's improving every season, that's why he got the deal.
how much better can he possibly get once he hits 31-32?
If he holds the current level then he's earned his contract. As a forward he's as good as the midfield giving him the ball, if they improve as we hope they do then his job gets easier
I agree if he can keep delivering years like 2016 (minus the horrendous finals series with injury) its not a bad deal, but realistically he's probably more or less peaked and will fall away a bit at some point.
Sure, because the colonel eats for free.
Kentuckinati confirmed!!
So that meltdown that we let Lyons go around the trade deadline was what exactly for if we didn't want him?! If we didn't want him why did we offer him a contract? If we didn't want him why didn't we just not offer him a contract like we didn't offer one to Henderson?
Seriously some people are so ******* blinded and so defensive that if anyone dare say anything slightly incriminating against the club then god help them.
I keep saying, the salary cap situation is NOT as dire as the article suggests but I also say there is no war chest that people keep on talking about. We created money for Gibbs last season by getting VB to retire (was on a VERY good coin as an ex captain), not bringing back Henderson who despite popular belief was on a pretty decent coin. We also wanted to keep Lyons but gave him a smaller offer than what he wanted. He chose to go elsewhere and we brought back Thompson with the money we were offering Lyons. Had Lyons accepted, Thompson would not have been re-signed.
If we didn't want him back we would not have made an offer to him just like we never made on offer to Henderson. People like to think that players are taking less to stay with the club. I can tell you that Jenkins' deal is closer to the Brisbane figure (not that high) than what this board is believes it to be around $450k-$500k per year. He is one of the higher paid players at the club. B. Crouch also got a significant pay rise on his 4 year contract extension. Talia's deal is also up there.
And you if REALLY believe Reid's version of events about Gibbs coming to us last minute then I have some real estate for you. We were into Gibbs half way through the season and started putting things into place to free up the cap room. I was told we were into a midfielder but it was all hush hush and no name was forth coming. Now I know why! You remember that time the story broke of our interest in Rockliff and how he caught up with Burton?! Well that was around the time when we started putting feelers out to Gibbs. Henderson needed to play one more game to meet the trigger for his contract for this year. Funny how he was dropped after the WC game where he was in our top 2-3 players on the night. Bottom line his contract needed to come off the books to bring in Gibbs and we were happy to sacrifice some depth in that position as we felt there was enough coming through so that we could bring in a ready made midfielder to help out Sloane.
Our club is no different to other clubs. They must pay at least 95% of the cap each year and every club, including ours is operating closer to 100% than 95% most years. People talk about increases of salary cap where clubs were projecting 10% but its likely to be 20% as if that is going to create some more space. Majority of the contracts are linked to fluctuations of the salary cap which means, that if salary cap increases so does the salary of the signed player.
People are talking like we have a war chest of $1-1.5million to throw around in free agency. We don't. We have managed our cap well but we do not have that much available where we can keep our players and drop a $1-1.5m deal on a free agent. I fully expect us to have another go at Gibbs at the end of the year because that sort of money we probably can afford even when re-signing McGovern and Lever to reasonable contracts. I would personally be pretty happy if we can keep Lever and McGovern (I am confident we will) and bring in Gibbs. Any talk of war chest is just wishful thinking and when we fail to get a massive FA in, people will again go into a melt down mode.
Miscreants must buy you twisters.
Just what I expected you to say Colonel...
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