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Into the eleven millions we go and it's the Hawks who beefed (poultried?) up their squad in the off season. Two of the recruits, lifer larrikin and veteran Biggie, have returned taking some of the squeeze off their wage budget.

A significant amount of East Side's salary cap goes to their top-five paid players who, no surprises, are all 's' or 'a tier'. Strigoi's 1.1 million dollar pay cheque is not surprising as it wouldn't have been an inexpensive exercise to extract her from the Dragons. What is somewhat surprising is Tarks is on less than a million, however there is probably good money post-qooty on the speaking circuit talking about being the first to 1000 goals etc.

Zoops, TY24 and Giant Strides have all had impressive seasons so are likely to negotiate larger contracts for season 38. Even so, there will be enough in the bank to recruit another big name to the Eyrie. One wonders, what do Callums Guns and por_please_ya have up their sleeves...?

Highest paid players: Callums_Guns (1.3m), Strigoi (1.1m), por_please_ya (950k), Tarkyn_24 (900k) and Rankine2Rachele (850k).

RANKHAWKSS37 SalaryTIER
1Callums_Guns$ 1,300,000S
2Strigoi$ 1,100,000S
3por_please_ya$ 950,000S
4Tarkyn_24$ 900,000S
5Rankine2Rachele$ 850,000A
=6Loonerty$ 600,000B
=6MP_$ 600,000B
=6The Majestic$ 600,000B
=6Biggie$ 600,000VET
10Itsmyshow$ 500,000B
=11Zoops$ 450,000B
=11Shermy$ 450,000C
=11boncer34$ 450,000C
=14akkaps$ 350,000C
=14TY24$ 350,000C
=16Drunkgoliath$ 200,000C
=16jackenny$ 200,000C
=16The Blue Weirdo$ 200,000C
19larrikin$ 150,000LIFER
20Red mist$ 130,000C
21vanders$ 120,000C
22Krazy Kris$ 115,000C
23A Bit Dusty$ 110,000C
24reggie$ 100,000C
25Giant Strides$ 90,000ROOK
I’m getting paid for this? 😮 And that much? 💰
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All the Dragons gave me was a house and all the grass I can eat.
Probably just wanted free lawn care service. 😡
Is this true, T2B_ ? 🫤
Maybe the grass is greener on the other side! 🤭
:laughv1:
 
I’m getting paid for this? 😮 And that much? 💰
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All the Dragons gave me was a house and all the grass I can eat.
Probably just wanted free lawn care service. 😡
Is this true, T2B_ ? 🫤
Maybe the grass is greener on the other side! 🤭
:laughv1:
To be fair land with dwellings on them are not cheap these days!
 
View attachment 1997370

Into the eleven millions we go and it's the Hawks who beefed (poultried?) up their squad in the off season. Two of the recruits, lifer larrikin and veteran Biggie, have returned taking some of the squeeze off their wage budget.

A significant amount of East Side's salary cap goes to their top-five paid players who, no surprises, are all 's' or 'a tier'. Strigoi's 1.1 million dollar pay cheque is not surprising as it wouldn't have been an inexpensive exercise to extract her from the Dragons. What is somewhat surprising is Tarks is on less than a million, however there is probably good money post-qooty on the speaking circuit talking about being the first to 1000 goals etc.

Zoops, TY24 and Giant Strides have all had impressive seasons so are likely to negotiate larger contracts for season 38. Even so, there will be enough in the bank to recruit another big name to the Eyrie. One wonders, what do Callums Guns and por_please_ya have up their sleeves...?

Highest paid players: Callums_Guns (1.3m), Strigoi (1.1m), por_please_ya (950k), Tarkyn_24 (900k) and Rankine2Rachele (850k).

RANKHAWKSS37 SalaryTIER
1Callums_Guns$ 1,300,000S
2Strigoi$ 1,100,000S
3por_please_ya$ 950,000S
4Tarkyn_24$ 900,000S
5Rankine2Rachele$ 850,000A
=6Loonerty$ 600,000B
=6MP_$ 600,000B
=6The Majestic$ 600,000B
=6Biggie$ 600,000VET
10Itsmyshow$ 500,000B
=11Zoops$ 450,000B
=11Shermy$ 450,000C
=11boncer34$ 450,000C
=14akkaps$ 350,000C
=14TY24$ 350,000C
=16Drunkgoliath$ 200,000C
=16jackenny$ 200,000C
=16The Blue Weirdo$ 200,000C
19larrikin$ 150,000LIFER
20Red mist$ 130,000C
21vanders$ 120,000C
22Krazy Kris$ 115,000C
23A Bit Dusty$ 110,000C
24reggie$ 100,000C
25Giant Strides$ 90,000ROOK
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Gumbies FFC New
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Next on the list is a team cats2rise has played 99 matches for so far (but I'm not revealing your salary just yet). The Gumbies have one veteran with 237.5k of StFly's salary off the books.

The four highest paid Gumbies are their leadership group with GWS Goose holding the contract with the most zeros (maybe it's all-SFA related..). Two tremendous off-beat characters follow with Chat Pile and Brick Loosener rewarded for their bodies of work. The Gumbies have only nine players whose contract is worth half a million plus which is reminiscent of some of the earlier named teams, however, the difference for the double blues is the proliferation of players in the 350-500k range.

The Gumbies have already lost two players for the season leaving some salary and squad room ahead of next season. Ruours emerging from Gumbies HQ is cats_09 has recently signed a seven figure contract so the cap looks like rising at this point, but there should still be money to spend at the trade table.

Highest paid players: GWS Goose (1m), Barrybran (850k), beez (850k), Falconista (800k), Chat Pile (750k) and Brick Loosener (750k).

RANKGUMBIESS37 SalaryTier
1GWS Goose$ 1,000,000S
2Barrybran$ 850,000S
3beez$ 850,000S
4Falconista$ 800,000A
=5Brick Loosener$ 750,000A
=5Chat Pile$ 750,000A
7cats_09$ 600,000B
8CatToTheFuture$ 525,000B
9Dory_77$ 500,000B
10StFly$ 475,000VET
=11Mop$ 450,000B
=11ossie_21$ 450,000B
13Supercheapgiants$ 425,000B
=14BlueE$ 350,000C
=14bone2468$ 350,000C
=14NSWCROW$ 350,000C
=14rye$ 350,000C
18Aucklander$ 225,000C
=19HotPiesWithSauce$ 200,000C
=19nobbyiscool$ 200,000GONE
21Jeremias$ 150,000C
=22saintkildaman$ 120,000C
=22Tigerlaird$ 120,000C
=24eDPS$ 110,000C
=24miggs$ 110,000RIP
26​
Ned Ryerson$ 105,000C
27​
EagleOz$ 100,000C
28​
DinoSoar$ 90,000ROOK
 
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Next on the list is a team cats2rise has played 99 matches for so far (but I'm not revealing your salary just yet). The Gumbies have one veteran with 237.5k of StFly's salary off the books.

The four highest paid Gumbies are their leadership group with GWS Goose holding the contract with the most zeros (maybe it's all-SFA related..). Two tremendous off-beat characters follow with Chat Pile and Brick Loosener rewarded for their bodies of work. The Gumbies have only nine players whose contract is worth half a million plus which is reminiscent of some of the earlier named teams, however, the difference for the double blues is the proliferation of players in the 350-500k range.

The Gumbies have already lost two players for the season leaving some salary and squad room ahead of next season. Ruours emerging from Gumbies HQ is cats_09 has recently signed a seven figure contract so the cap looks like rising at this point, but there should still be money to spend at the trade table.

Highest paid players: GWS Goose (1m), Barrybran (850k), beez (850k), Falconista (800k), Chat Pile (750k) and Brick Loosener (750k).

RANKGUMBIESS37 SalaryTier
1GWS Goose$ 1,000,000S
2Barrybran$ 850,000S
3beez$ 850,000S
4Falconista$ 800,000A
=5Brick Loosener$ 750,000A
=5Chat Pile$ 750,000A
7cats_09$ 600,000B
8CatToTheFuture$ 525,000B
9Dory_77$ 500,000B
10StFly$ 475,000VET
=11Mop$ 450,000B
=11ossie_21$ 450,000B
13Supercheapgiants$ 425,000B
=14BlueE$ 350,000C
=14bone2468$ 350,000C
=14NSWCROW$ 350,000C
=14rye$ 350,000C
18Aucklander$ 225,000C
=19HotPiesWithSauce$ 200,000C
=19nobbyiscool$ 200,000GONE
21Jeremias$ 150,000C
=22saintkildaman$ 120,000C
=22Tigerlaird$ 120,000C
=24eDPS$ 110,000C
=24miggs$ 110,000RIP
26​
Ned Ryerson$ 105,000C
27​
EagleOz$ 100,000C
28​
DinoSoar$ 90,000ROOK
Chat Pile doing well to get $750k considering he hasn't posted in Sweet for 12 weeks
 
He must be busy in the Team PM
Fun fact: The Gumbies won the flag last year because StFly posted multiple times a week in the team PM but because he believes he controls the universe he wouldn't dare post in a match thread lest he jinx us.
 
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Next on the list is a team cats2rise has played 99 matches for so far (but I'm not revealing your salary just yet). The Gumbies have one veteran with 237.5k of StFly's salary off the books.

The four highest paid Gumbies are their leadership group with GWS Goose holding the contract with the most zeros (maybe it's all-SFA related..). Two tremendous off-beat characters follow with Chat Pile and Brick Loosener rewarded for their bodies of work. The Gumbies have only nine players whose contract is worth half a million plus which is reminiscent of some of the earlier named teams, however, the difference for the double blues is the proliferation of players in the 350-500k range.

The Gumbies have already lost two players for the season leaving some salary and squad room ahead of next season. Ruours emerging from Gumbies HQ is cats_09 has recently signed a seven figure contract so the cap looks like rising at this point, but there should still be money to spend at the trade table.

Highest paid players: GWS Goose (1m), Barrybran (850k), beez (850k), Falconista (800k), Chat Pile (750k) and Brick Loosener (750k).

RANKGUMBIESS37 SalaryTier
1GWS Goose$ 1,000,000S
2Barrybran$ 850,000S
3beez$ 850,000S
4Falconista$ 800,000A
=5Brick Loosener$ 750,000A
=5Chat Pile$ 750,000A
7cats_09$ 600,000B
8CatToTheFuture$ 525,000B
9Dory_77$ 500,000B
10StFly$ 475,000VET
=11Mop$ 450,000B
=11ossie_21$ 450,000B
13Supercheapgiants$ 425,000B
=14BlueE$ 350,000C
=14bone2468$ 350,000C
=14NSWCROW$ 350,000C
=14rye$ 350,000C
18Aucklander$ 225,000C
=19HotPiesWithSauce$ 200,000C
=19nobbyiscool$ 200,000GONE
21Jeremias$ 150,000C
=22saintkildaman$ 120,000C
=22Tigerlaird$ 120,000C
=24eDPS$ 110,000C
=24miggs$ 110,000RIP
26​
Ned Ryerson$ 105,000C
27​
EagleOz$ 100,000C
28​
DinoSoar$ 90,000ROOK

We get paid for this...

🤑
 
Mount Buller Demons New
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Now we're into the six teams who have maxxed, or are close to, their salary cap of 12 million. The Demons have benefited greatly from having lifer Headless' salary off their books and half of veteran Van_Dyke's.

Looking at some of these salaries, it appears that the Demons have taken a collective pact to accept a smaller salary for team stability amongst a smattering of creative accounting. That's not to say their players aren't heartily paid with the Demons are the first club named so far in this analysis with three million dollar players. Then follows another ten players on at least half a million. At the other end of their list, the Dees have quite a long tail of inexpensive players with seven players on 150k or less.

The loss of Tarks in the offseason seems to have assisted the funding of up and comers Gralin and moginie. However, many Dees are going to have to continue to forgo possible open market salaries to maintain their current squad. Will anyone wander?

Highest paid players: manangatang (1.1m), Hate (1m), Wosh (1m), Headless (950k) and sausageroll (850k).

Players named cats2rise: 520k

RANKDEMONSS37 SalaryTier
1manangatang$ 1,100,000S
=2Hate$ 1,000,000S
=2Wosh$ 1,000,000S
4Headless$ 950,000LIFER
5sausageroll$ 850,000S
6Gralin$ 800,000S
7cooney$ 700,000A
8Yakker$ 675,000A
=9moginie$ 600,000A
=9PMBangers$ 600,000B
=9sante$ 600,000B
=12cats2rise$ 520,000B
=12Van_Dyke$ 520,000VET
=14Bluelegs$ 350,000B
=14DemonJim$ 350,000B
=14Scythe94$ 350,000B
17DERO$ 330,000B
18Marlowe$ 325,000C
19cartwright$ 300,000C
20jmoo wan$ 280,000C
21Truetiger$ 150,000C
22Proper Gander$ 130,000C
=23Azarole$ 120,000C
=23Quivorir$ 120,000C
25Heardy_101$ 110,000C
26​
Johnny Karate$ 105,000C
27​
Oddhawk$ 100,000C
 
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Now we're into the six teams who have maxxed, or are close to, their salary cap of 12 million. The Demons have benefited greatly from having lifer Headless' salary off their books and half of veteran Van_Dyke's.

Looking at some of these salaries, it appears that the Demons have taken a collective pact to accept a smaller salary for team stability amongst a smattering of creative accounting. That's not to say their players aren't heartily paid with the Demons are the first club named so far in this analysis with three million dollar players. Then follows another ten players on at least half a million. At the other end of their list, the Dees have quite a long tail of inexpensive players with seven players on 150k or less.

The loss of Tarks in the offseason seems to have assisted the funding of up and comers Gralin and moginie. However, many Dees are going to have to continue to forgo possible open market salaries to maintain their current squad. Will anyone wander?

Highest paid players: manangatang (1.1m), Hate (1m), Wosh (1m), Headless (950k) and sausageroll (850k).

Players named cats2rise: 520k

RANKDEMONSS37 SalaryTier
1manangatang$ 1,100,000S
=2Hate$ 1,000,000S
=2Wosh$ 1,000,000S
4Headless$ 950,000LIFER
5sausageroll$ 850,000S
6Gralin$ 800,000S
7cooney$ 700,000A
8Yakker$ 675,000A
=9moginie$ 600,000A
=9PMBangers$ 600,000B
=9sante$ 600,000B
=12cats2rise$ 520,000B
=12Van_Dyke$ 520,000VET
=14Bluelegs$ 350,000B
=14DemonJim$ 350,000B
=14Scythe94$ 350,000B
17DERO$ 330,000B
18Marlowe$ 325,000C
19cartwright$ 300,000C
20jmoo wan$ 280,000C
21Truetiger$ 150,000C
22Proper Gander$ 130,000C
=23Azarole$ 120,000C
=23Quivorir$ 120,000C
25Heardy_101$ 110,000C
26​
Johnny Karate$ 105,000C
27​
Oddhawk$ 100,000C
PMBangers getting $600k for doing literally nothing. Nice.
 
And you've now tagged me twice. :cautiousv1: You're actually missing Gralin, which is a much bigger crime.
I wouldn't call it criminal Less

I mean sure, you could look at it as criminal, people probably do.

But I wouldn't call it criminal
 
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Now we're into the six teams who have maxxed, or are close to, their salary cap of 12 million. The Demons have benefited greatly from having lifer Headless' salary off their books and half of veteran Van_Dyke's.

Looking at some of these salaries, it appears that the Demons have taken a collective pact to accept a smaller salary for team stability amongst a smattering of creative accounting. That's not to say their players aren't heartily paid with the Demons are the first club named so far in this analysis with three million dollar players. Then follows another ten players on at least half a million. At the other end of their list, the Dees have quite a long tail of inexpensive players with seven players on 150k or less.

The loss of Tarks in the offseason seems to have assisted the funding of up and comers Gralin and moginie. However, many Dees are going to have to continue to forgo possible open market salaries to maintain their current squad. Will anyone wander?

Highest paid players: manangatang (1.1m), Hate (1m), Wosh (1m), Headless (950k) and sausageroll (850k).

Players named cats2rise: 520k

RANKDEMONSS37 SalaryTier
1manangatang$ 1,100,000S
=2Hate$ 1,000,000S
=2Wosh$ 1,000,000S
4Headless$ 950,000LIFER
5sausageroll$ 850,000S
6Gralin$ 800,000S
7cooney$ 700,000A
8Yakker$ 675,000A
=9moginie$ 600,000A
=9PMBangers$ 600,000B
=9sante$ 600,000B
=12cats2rise$ 520,000B
=12Van_Dyke$ 520,000VET
=14Bluelegs$ 350,000B
=14DemonJim$ 350,000B
=14Scythe94$ 350,000B
17DERO$ 330,000B
18Marlowe$ 325,000C
19cartwright$ 300,000C
20jmoo wan$ 280,000C
21Truetiger$ 150,000C
22Proper Gander$ 130,000C
=23Azarole$ 120,000C
=23Quivorir$ 120,000C
25Heardy_101$ 110,000C
26​
Johnny Karate$ 105,000C
27​
Oddhawk$ 100,000C
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Baghdad Bombers New
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The 'qooty factory' Bombers have returned their salary cap to nearly 100% after a couple of seasons where they've lost barely anyone to trades or termination. They've got one salary off their books in club stalwart, iDon.

The hallmark of the Bombers list is the proliferation of 'a' and 'b tier' players who command strong salaries. Skipper Pugsley gets tasty renumeration to be one of the higher paid players in the league. He's the only million dollar Bomber though with thirteen further teammates in the 450-950k region. This includes MayTheNorthBeWithU who only cost 450k to extract from the Wonders...unless the SMH headline from a few weeks ago was about MTNBWU, as an older sibling suggested to The Files.
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The Bombers are on the verge of some salary relief with club legend and video enthusiast, KohPhi, fast approaching the 300 milestone. That may not be enough though as the Baghdad folk are always an active team in off seasons. It's probable the top end will be looking at wage cuts as the Bombers bring in their newest batch of recruits.

Highest paid players: Pugsley (1.25m), Jabba73 (950k), Kilroy (950k), BLUEALLTHRU (900k) and Grav (850k).

RANKBOMBERSS37 SalaryTIER
1Pugsley$ 1,250,000S
=2Jabba73$ 950,000A
=2Kilroy$ 950,000A
4BLUEALLTHRU$ 900,000A
5Grav$ 850,000A
6gab213$ 800,000A
7CursingFijian$ 700,000A
8KohPhi$ 690,690A
9VeinGlorious$ 600,000B
10Bovo$ 550,000B
=11kickthething$ 500,000B
=11iDon$ 500,000LIFER
=13MayTheNorthBeWithU$ 450,000B
=13snozulu$ 450,000B
15norway blue$ 300,000C
16JustaBattler$ 280,000C
17ArdentEagle$ 250,000C
18HaroLad$ 200,000C
19Footy Is The Win$ 180,000C
20SaintsSeptember$ 150,000C
21Osc1$ 140,000C
=22sunny3193$ 130,000C
=22The Sultan$ 130,000C
=22YeoGabbaGabba$ 130,000C
25PetWussy$ 120,000C
26​
MITS$ 110,000C
27​
tomjoad$ 90,000ROOK
 
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The 'qooty factory' Bombers have returned their salary cap to nearly 100% after a couple of seasons where they've lost barely anyone to trades or termination. They've got one salary off their books in club stalwart, iDon.

The hallmark of the Bombers list is the proliferation of 'a' and 'b tier' players who command strong salaries. Skipper Pugsley gets tasty renumeration to be one of the higher paid players in the league. He's the only million dollar Bomber though with thirteen further teammates in the 450-950k region. This includes MayTheNorthBeWithU who only cost 450k to extract from the Wonders...unless the SMH headline from a few weeks ago was about MTNBWU, as an older sibling suggested to The Files.
View attachment 2005715

The Bombers are on the verge of some salary relief with club legend and video enthusiast, KohPhi, fast approaching the 300 milestone. That may not be enough though as the Baghdad folk are always an active team in off seasons. It's probable the top end will be looking at wage cuts as the Bombers bring in their newest batch of recruits.

Highest paid players: Pugsley (1.25m), Jabba73 (950k), Kilroy (950k), BLUEALLTHRU (900k) and Grav (850k).

RANKBOMBERSS37 SalaryTIER
1Pugsley$ 1,250,000S
=2Jabba73$ 950,000A
=2Kilroy$ 950,000A
4BLUEALLTHRU$ 900,000A
5Grav$ 850,000A
6gab213$ 800,000A
7CursingFijian$ 700,000A
8KohPhi$ 690,690A
9VeinGlorious$ 600,000B
10Bovo$ 550,000B
=11kickthething$ 500,000B
=11iDon$ 500,000LIFER
=13MayTheNorthBeWithU$ 450,000B
=13snozulu$ 450,000B
15norway blue$ 300,000C
16JustaBattler$ 280,000C
17ArdentEagle$ 250,000C
18HaroLad$ 200,000C
19Footy Is The Win$ 180,000C
20SaintsSeptember$ 150,000C
21Osc1$ 140,000C
=22sunny3193$ 130,000C
=22The Sultan$ 130,000C
=22YeoGabbaGabba$ 130,000C
25PetWussy$ 120,000C
26​
MITS$ 110,000C
27​
tomjoad$ 90,000ROOK
What’s that worth in camels?
 
Skipper Pugsley gets tasty renumeration to be one of the higher paid players in the league
Can’t believe a mangy dishlicker is worth more than me. Oh! The embarrassment is almost too much to bear. 🥴

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The Bombers are on the verge of some salary relief with club legend and video enthusiast, @KohPhi, fast approaching the 300 milestone. That may not be enough though as the Baghdad folk are always an active team in off seasons​
Pugsley just played his 300th recently too.
 

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