Geelongs salary cap - Does it need questioning?

[frggr]

Carlton bring in 2 half back flankers. Pay them over 1 and 1/2 million combined, then complain about other clubs salaries.

I want to feel sorry for Carlton etc, but they just keep doing it to themselves.

The list managers are soft touches.

If a bloke says he wants $750k or he walks, let him walk. Make some other club be the schlub to pick up the tab

 

[SuperVolley11]

I want to feel sorry for Carlton etc, but they just keep doing it to themselves.

The list managers are soft touches.

If a bloke says he wants $750k or he walks, let him walk. Make some other club be the schlub to pick up the tab

It has to be the pressure from the fans and board to get results. So they pay overs on the bottom line to get these guys across rather then players wanted to come to win a flag. Look at the way Brisbane have been able to get the big tickets of late. Not by paying overs but by being an attractive destination.

 

[Wojcinski]

Every single person knows the example I’m talking about in regards to a certain Irish Person and his amazing new house in Geelong. Don’t be cheeky and pretend otherwise

ah so you're just lying about it then

 

[frggr]

Every single person knows the example I’m talking about in regards to a certain Irish Person and his amazing new house in Geelong. Don’t be cheeky and pretend otherwise

I know this is a troll account, but there's a certain irony about Eagles fans talking about players getting "new houses"

 

[thecatattack]

Every single person knows the example I’m talking about in regards to a certain Irish Person and his amazing new house in Geelong. Don’t be cheeky and pretend otherwise

Wow, a dude getting paid hundreds of thousands a year for a decade can buy a nice house. Crazy.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

If every single person knows about it (I don’t!) then the AFL must as well. Why haven’t they said or done anything?

For the same reason Gills answer to why Beams got paid outside the salary cap was “I don’t know”.

Easier to turn a blind eye or give a tap on the wrist then to tackle a problem head on. We saw what happened in the NRL when the Storm got done for example

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

I know this is a troll account, but there's a certain irony about Eagles fans talking about players getting "new houses"

I wish we were allowed to be as obvious about it as everyone else. If we were then Judd would have played his career out at the Eagles

 

[CatToTheFuture]

To be fair, Dank working at the club prior to his dizzy heights achieved at Manly and Essendon is not a good look.

He didn't though. It's literally not a correct statement

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Will sign a 3 year 1 million dollar deal like they all do, yet somehow afford a 2 million dollar state of the art new house

Have you heard of this new hip thing called a mortgage?

 

[Sttew]

For the same reason Gills answer to why Beams got paid outside the salary cap was “I don’t know”.

Easier to turn a blind eye or give a tap on the wrist then to tackle a problem head on. We saw what happened in the NRL when the Storm got done for example

Collingwood was given an exemption to pay Beams outside the salary cap because of the "mental health" aspect. This has nothing to do with the Irishman at Geelong and the multi-million dollar house scenario that nobody other than you in the West seems to know anything about

 

[STPer18]

Zach Merrett and Sean Darcy will complement our midfield nicely once we get them in next year. Clearing Jenkins' salary should do the trick for those two.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Collingwood was given an exemption to pay Beams outside the salary cap because of the "mental health" aspect. This has nothing to do with the Irishman at Geelong and the multi-million dollar house scenario that nobody other than you in the West seems to know anything about

Not true at all. This is why Gil said he doesn’t know. It didn’t fall into that category

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I just think it is utterly remarkably how good their fitness and conditioning program is.

So many players aged 30+ and all firing fit, and in some cases in career best form late at a time when players at other clubs are starting to decline

Not just that, but their players just look unnaturally bigger and faster than players at other clubs (i think the hoops create a weird visual effect or something)...

Oh, and all this in a Covid year with a shorter offseason and less recovery time.

Amazingly, Geelong have both the most 30 year olds ever to play in a match, and the shortest injury list in the competition.

Truly remarkable really - must be something in that country air, or in the water perhaps

Or maybe they just intentionally play a game style that means they don't have to run a hard, like they kick it around the backline for 75% of a match. I dunno, might explain it

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Zach Merrett and Sean Darcy will complement our midfield nicely once we get them in next year. Clearing Jenkins' salary should do the trick for those two.

Apparently Dangerfield will take a paycut to accomodate them. His rookie scale contract is more than fair value

 

[Sttew]

Not true at all. This is why Gil said he doesn’t know. It didn’t fall into that category

This is what Gil said on 3AW (that's a radio station in AFL Land.)

“I don’t have any detail around that,” the AFL boss told 3AW.

“There may be exemptions or specific reasons or things that sit outside the cap. There are some exemptions. Like, injury allowances are part of … there is a cap, then there’s an overflow for injury allowances and injury payments, so maybe something happened there."

The point is we are all talking about the Beams scenario. Nobody other than you has raised the "Irishman at Geelong" scenario

‘We deserve answers’: AFL unable to explain former Pie’s contract mystery

‘We deserve answers’: AFL unable to explain former Pie’s contract mystery

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Sttew]

Apparently Dangerfield will take a paycut to accomodate them. His rookie scale contract is more than fair value

He's now got his multi million dollar house at Moggs Creek

 

[STPer18]

Apparently Dangerfield will take a paycut to accomodate them. His rookie scale contract is more than fair value

I'm hearing he's gonna let them stay at his 12 bedroom mansion in Moggs Creek rent free. Ripping bloke.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Zach Merrett and Sean Darcy will complement our midfield nicely once we get them in next year. Clearing Jenkins' salary should do the trick for those two.

Psst, we aren’t paying JJ’s salary. Adelaide is

 

[Sttew]

Psst, we aren’t paying JJ’s salary. Adelaide is

Another rort!

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Apparently Dangerfield will take a paycut to accomodate them. His rookie scale contract is more than fair value

To be fair, his off-season fishing show probably earns him more than most footballers to begin with

 

[STPer18]

Psst, we aren’t paying JJ’s salary. Adelaide is

We're stealing the Crow's salary cap now as well? Unethical.

 

[cats_09]

We're stealing the Crow's salary cap now as well? Unethical.

Not just the Crows, think you'll find that North is still paying part of Higgins salary - maybe the explains why on occasions he looks like he's still playing for them...

 

[Seeds]

Stop being so defensive guys...I said I retract my earlier comment.

* Dean Robinson sources drug from Stephen Dank. Nothing to see here...move along

Sources fully approved wada drug used across the world to heal hamstring injuries that was previously prescribed to a Geelong player from a world famous sports doctor.


i.e. This was not some drug that Robinson or dank thought up.

 

[frggr]

I wish we were allowed to be as obvious about it as everyone else. If we were then Judd would have played his career out at the Eagles

No he wouldn't have. He was a mummy's boy from the get go

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I wish we were allowed to be as obvious about it as everyone else. If we were then Judd would have played his career out at the Eagles

hahaha, Judd couldn't run fast enough or far enough from your club which was drug addled at the time. As much as I don't personally like the smarmy prick, he seems to have done ok for himself back home in Melbourne.