How much should the salary cap rise?

[GOALden Hawk]

How much should the salary cap rise next season? The AFLPA demanded 10% initially but have now brought that down to 8%. Some of the clubs however only want it to rise 5%.

This is a tough one, because the players are the people that make the game. However I tend to think 5% is a better amount because:

1. Except in rare circumstances people go to watch their team, not individual players.
2. Players are already very well compensated for playing a game a lot of us would love to play for a basic wage.
3. Although there is a lot of money coming into football, most of it has to be spent on other things, ie Colonial, upgrade of MCG, development in Northern States, ensuring all 16 clubs survive. These things are more important than player wages.
4. The salary cap rising so much each season defeats its purpose - as clubs just give players contracts which are heavily weighted for the last year, safe in the knowledge the cap will have risen to that amount by then.

Anyway, what do you all think?

 

[Rooboy 96]

I believe the cap should be lowered and enforce far more strictly... your average fringe player is not worth $80,000 per annum...

 

[Rooboy 96]

Originally posted by GOALden Hawk

4. The salary cap rising so much each season defeats its purpose - as clubs just give players contracts which are heavily weighted for the last year, safe in the knowledge the cap will have risen to that amount by then.

This should be outlawed.... as in a true sense.... it is manipulation of the salary cap...

 

[Frodo]

10000000000000000000000000000%

and they only spend what they want of it.

And they can have up to 9999999999999999999999 players on their list

 

[Frodo]

And don't forget that with lists reduced by three that effectively gives three players wages to be divided amongst the rest along with the cap increase

 

[GOALden Hawk]

Originally posted by Frodo
And don't forget that with lists reduced by three that effectively gives three players wages to be divided amongst the rest along with the cap increase

By 3? What is the playing list meant to be next year? I thought it was still 38? The salary cap will never be abolished Frodo.

 

[McKenna for PM]

Frodo, again we meet on either side of this issue.

I am a football communist. There. I said it. There is no way to make the game truly equable without this type of administration.

I agree that in a perfect world players would be paid more, but in the interests of the game it is more important that each team is given a fair go? What would the game be like if, for example, the likes of North and the Hawks, etc were forever also-rans, spectating the finals between the likes of Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and the interstate teams?

F*&king boring is what it would be like.