Geelongs salary cap - Does it need questioning?

[boncer34]

Bigfooty - "LOL Geelong is a backwater dump with a tin pot ground."

Also Bigfooty - "Geelongs lifestyle gives them a unfair advantage."

 

[Foxx]

Bigfooty - "LOL Geelong is a backwater dump with a tin pot ground."

Also Bigfooty - "Geelongs lifestyle gives them a unfair advantage."

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[BringFevBack2021]

Bigfooty - "LOL Geelong is a backwater dump with a tin pot ground."

Also Bigfooty - "Geelongs lifestyle gives them a unfair advantage."

Also BigFooty fans:
Location: Broadmeadows

 

[Duskfire]

So silly to bump this thread when Geelong have just won the flag with no real stars commanding big salaries in that 24-28 age bracket.

Would any of:
Kolo
Narkle
Bews
Atkins (Rookie btw)
O’Connor

Be getting more than $300k a season?

Conversely, would their aging stars be on much, outside of Jezza (who is only 29 btw) ? I can’t imagine that despite their clear value to the club, that Touhy, Danger, Hawk, Selwood, Blicavs, Stanley, Duncan or C Guthrie are getting paid a whole lot.

Finally, their young stars are still very young. I doubt many of them are getting paid much either.

Most clubs have a few players that they are paying overs for, us with Williams/McGov, Saints with Hill/Hanners etc. seems like Geelong are paying slight overs for Jezza with the rest being distributed across the remainder of the playing list in a pretty flat structure.

Precisely. Geelong are in the weird situation where they have a lot of older players and really young players. There’s not a huge amount of stars in that 26 to 30 range who typically get the big money. And by the time the younger/newer players are needing to be paid more (De Koning, Stengle, Close) there will be a bunch who have retired. One if their best midfielders this year for instance was Atkins who barely anyone gave a crap about before 2022, he would be on nothing.

 

[Robroy22]

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It's never been a backwater dump....its just that lots more people have worked it out now!