Someone explain to me how our Salary Cap is about to burst?? We are gonna lose Bartel, Enright, Smedts, Kersten and Vardy in one year and only bringing in Tuohy.
Someone explain to me how our Salary Cap is about to burst?? We are gonna lose Bartel, Enright, Smedts, Kersten and Vardy in one year and only bringing in Tuohy.
I'd like to think our management team arent so inept that they suddenly realize "Oh sh!t.... We have no salary cap left.. quick trade Caddy for nothing."
So around 800K spare after Tuohy, yet we are trading Caddy because we have no space in the Salary Cap (according to Trade Radio).... This whole Caddy thing doesnt make sense.
Not really as we know some players are on back ended contracts and some on front ended, would only take 16 players to earn extra 50k and salary space would be gone now wont work out that evenly but dare say Dangerfield and Hawkins are getting a fair wedge this year...
I'd like to think our management team arent so inept that they suddenly realize "Oh sh!t.... We have no salary cap left.. quick trade Caddy for nothing."
Someone explain to me how our Salary Cap is about to burst?? We are gonna lose Bartel, Enright, Smedts, Kersten and Vardy in one year and only bringing in Tuohy.
Surely Wells & Co would sit back and take note of the hard line stance clubs like Carltank etc take during trade and think we're doing something wrong? If Caddy goes without a decent player coming in it'll undo everything we did last year.
From a club that had unlimited talls we virtually have zero depth.
If you are pinning your hopes on winning a flag using your CHB & FB as forwards, clearly someone has fkd up.
The way the salary cap works, I think it is entirely reasonable, that a team that won 17 games, has the best player in the league, the All Australian Captain and an All Australian CHB and FF that we are close to the cap.....
Not really as we know some players are on back ended contracts and some on front ended, would only take 16 players to earn extra 50k and salary space would be gone now wont work out that evenly but dare say Dangerfield and Hawkins are getting a fair wedge this year...
Maybe the Caddy to Richmond for pick 24 thing has some merit, Wells might be cooking up a pick swap (say 24 and 42) to a club that requires academy points, to get us in the first round this year possibly?
So around 800K spare after Tuohy, yet we are trading Caddy because we have no space in the Salary Cap (according to Trade Radio).... This whole Caddy thing doesnt make sense.
Has to be more pieces to the puzzle regarding the Caddy trade otherwise can't make much sense of it.
Must be another player we are targeting with the pick or collective picks.
Find out soon enough i suppose.
I think Caddy is a solid player, not overrating him. The trade just doesnt make sense. We are in "win now" mode and Caddy is best 22. So why trade him for a pick in the mid-late twenties when he's contracted.
I would dare say that Dangerfield, Selwood,Hawkins, Motlop, Taylor,Mackie,Lonergan would take up 50%+ of our clubs cap leaving not a lot for likes of Duncan, Caddy, Guthrie so they are probably who we are paying extra too....
The way the salary cap works, I think it is entirely reasonable, that a team that won 17 games, has the best player in the league, the All Australian Captain and an All Australian CHB and FF that we are close to the cap.....
Maybe the Caddy to Richmond for pick 24 thing has some merit, Wells might be cooking up a pick swap (say 24 and 42) to a club that requires academy points, to get us in the first round this year possibly?
before last year the club locked in a number of player contracts so they could find the space to get the 4 players we did, no surprise we dont have any cap left...