Free Agency Jade Gresham [Joins Essendon as RFA]

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Still doesn't justify paying Gresham 700K. He's not worth anywhere near that. Poor fiscal management

If you're going to be blowing that sort of money, at least blow it on someone who's worth it.
Same with McKay and his 800k

Giving you the benefit of the doubt here and hoping that this comes from a place of ignorance rather than a lame troll attempt (even knowing that’s unlikely).

These contracts are not going to scale with the CBA increases, so they’ll still be 700 or 780 in 3-6 years from now when most of the rest of the league are taking in another 35%.

Other players on that money this year if they have the full CBA increase in their contracts will be taking home something like 900k in 3-6 years. It’s apples and oranges.

We overpay a bit on flat numbers for this reason, but we bank the increase and will be able to go back to the well again next year when there are better FAs available.