Increased Salary Cap For Port

[Drakey]

There was an interesting article in the Adelaide Advertiser on Saturday by everybodies favorite football journalist & Port supporter Michelangelo Rucci.

In a nutshell he said that because Port has not been able to draft big name players ie Grant, Stafford, Holland etc, they should have an increased salary cap like Sydney & Brisbane.

He has been leading into this for a week.

1st claiming it was extremely difficult to get players from Vic because of better job/media opportunities in Melbourne. Now he says that Port have reviewed their recruiting over the last 4 years & are going to push for an increased salary cap to entice name players to Adelaide.

If you follow that logic then the Crows, Eagles & Dockers should also be entitled to an increase in the cap.

What do you think?

 

[Crowmad]

Michelangelo always comes up with some weird idea when the Power are going poorly, just to get the focus off their pathetic on field performances!

If you listen to the Saturday morning sports show on radio 5AA, he always diverts attention away with some outlandish statement, which occupies everyone for a while, until the calls come in about the Crows, or something else, other than the Pathetic Power.

It is true that the non-Vic teams have trouble recruiting players from Melb, but maybe if there were less teams actually playing in Melb we wouldn't have all this trouble. Surely this will have to come about. As it is now the whole competition is uneven, with Melb teams travelling so rarely, and teams not playing each other twice in the season, but that is another matter...

 

[Pessimistic]

Let me get this straight. The interstate teams are doing poorly because they can't get victorian players ? And there are too many victorian teams ?

Perhaps it's because the lopsided drafting policies have ended and Victorian teams have adjusted to the new set-up.

But please, look at the crows. The most effective way to success is to win games. Very few victorians in their premiership sides

 

[James2]

I read Rucci's article last Saturday; absolute rubbish for the following reasons:
1)Comparing Sydney and Brisbane to Port Adelaide is very misleading. Firstly, one of the "reasons" the Swans have a higher salary cap is because the cost of living in Sydney is higher then it is in Melbourne. Sydney and Brisbane are also in states where Aussie Rules is not the top sport, and the AFL views salary cap concessions as important to keeping them successfull. This is not the case with Port Adelaide. Regardless of these concessions, it didn't help Brisbane keep O'Bree, or the Swnas to poach Lloyd, Richardson and co. last year.

2)Both Adelaide and the West Coast have won premierships without concessions, they would also find it difficult to recruit Melbourne-based players.

3)Melbourne just happens to be the Mecca of football, not matter how much Rucci may want to change it. As a result, Melbourne-based players have greater media and other promotional opportunities. The CBA, which all clubs were a party to, allows clubs to pay players for promotional activities, without including it in the salary cap. This sllows clubs like Essendon and the Kangaroos to keep their stars under the salary cap. Perhaps the Power should ask for this measure to be scrapped for all Victorian clubs!!
4)Fremantle have never got such concessions despite poor performances and low crowds, perhaps Port Should look at their recruiting before they start whinging for concessions eg. Eagleton.
They have only been in the competition for three years. Last year they made the finals, if they had made the finals this year, or had at least been competetive, this whinging would not have been contemplated.

 

[Eagle_Fan]

We'll take any increase in salary cap for sure!

I can understand where Rucci(?) was coming from but don't really agree what he said. See Freo really do need some experienced players in their squad, but so far it's been impossible to to get any. All the players of AFL quality have already been drafted by us (and unlike them we don't usually give them away

), or have gone east. When we formed in '87, we had pretty much the pick of the WAFL competition to choose from. Not as many went to Melbourne, it was just as satisfying to play state level footy. I imagine the Crows would have been similar?
Having said that, I don't think raising the salary cap for certain clubs is the answer. They're just going to have to trade well, and make the most of early draft picks to produce leaders of the future. Freo have found a few this year already in Haselby & Brown.

 

[The Abuser]

Typical Interstate CHEATS!!.

JUST COZ YOU'RE OWN ****Y LITTLE COMPETITIONS ARE ALL STUFFED UP, DOESNT MEAN YOU CAN COME IN AND TRY & STUFF UP OURS.

ROT IN HELL ALL NON-VICTORIAN CLUBS & FANS, PLUS COLLIDUDS & ESSENSCUM AS WELL.

 

[Port01]

Michelangelo is an idiot

its funny how none of this ever came to pass outside of his own mind.

I'm trying to find a reason why the abuser found this post and brought it back to the top after a year however.

 

[mantis]

Originally posted by Port01
Michelangelo is an idiot

its funny how none of this ever came to pass outside of his own mind.

I'm trying to find a reason why the abuser found this post and brought it back to the top after a year however.

Because he is a moron, this isn't the only old post he has brought up today, he must be bored.

 

[choppy]

Given Port are cashed up after getting a half million dollar concession on the their licence fee this year there maybe something in it.

It should be okay for Port though, as its only the financial struggling Victorian teams that are not given any concessions.

What's one more concession to an interstate side.

 

[Blues_Brat]

I thought something was a bit odd til I saw the date this was started.

Abuser has taken stupidity to new heights (depths?) all hail to thee, you have taken Dumbsdill19's crown.

 

[WCE2000]

i've got almost exactly the opposite view of Rucci.

He wants to make so it's easier for interstate sides to draft Victorian players.

I want to make it so there's a limit on how many players you can draft from outside your home state.

Say if you've got 20 Victorian's in the eagles line-up, then I don't see how you can call it a Western Australia team.

Fortunately, at the moment, Brisbane, and Sydney, are the only two interstate sides with more than 10 players from outside their home state.

 

[Dave]

Originally posted by WCE2000
Say if you've got 20 Victorian's in the eagles line-up, then I don't see how you can call it a Western Australia team.

Well there's your mistake The AFL is a CLUB based competition. Which state the players come from is completely irrelevant.

 

[GOALden Hawk]

The chances of any such concession happening would be very remote if the Victorian clubs have anything to do with it. Like someone already said, the ****-and-bull reason Sydney get an extra salary cap allowance is because of 'living' expenses. While it all seems pretty suss to me, this justification could not be used by Port as it's cheaper to live in Adelaide than Melbourne.

As for marketing opportunities, been a 2 team town, I would have thought it would be pretty easy for any Port or Crows player to get publicity, I mean it's not like there's anything else going on over there

This article hasn't even been mentioned in the Melbourne press, so I don't think many peope are taking it seriously. Let's just hope Wayne the Pain doesn't hear about it, because he'll probably approve it on the spot.

 

[Hit The Boundary Saints]

I actually read the justification for Sydney and Brisbane was not cost of living (in which case how does Brisbane get more than Melbourne clubs), but the fact that 90% of their list are from interstate, and the extra money is needed to keep them in Sydney or Brisbane.

This does not apply to SA or WA clubs, who wisely will take a local over a Victorian if the decision is at all line ball.

I have worked a bit in Adelaide over the past year, and laughed every morning at the unmitigated crap that Michaelangelo Rucci comes up with. He needs to poke his head out of his hole and see there is a big world out there.