Ovens and Murray salary cap...

[Goauld]

I'm not sure if too many people follow the O&M league on these forums, but I was wondering who people think may be the second club to have breached the salary cap?
Wangaratta Magpies admitted it to the Border Mail and aswell as giving some weak excuse stated that it was only a $100 fine, but every single other club emphatically denied they breached the salary cap.

Do any of you have any ideas on who it could be, and why?
Also, whats the damn story with the league being so secretive about it?
I know its not that big of a deal, but if they're serious about the Salary Cap, which they say they are, they should be open about it...
Just my thoughts.

 

[Joe Mama]

Wang must be paying a whole lot of money for sh1t players then, Wang Rovers have been the strongest team in the O&M for a few years now.

But, I do believe that the major leagues should have a salary cap (the Goulburn Valley League has had one since 1992), and there's probably a good reason why the league's been so secrative about the cap, but it will take some hammering in order to answer those questions who ordered.

 

[jerry springer]

i follow the hoppers,and have for years but i never knew that the O&M had a salary-cap.i dont think we need one either,because it would hurt teams trying to get better players and therefore make the league weaker.

 

[Goauld]

It would also allow teams to simply offer huge salaries to the best players and have an unbeatable side.

 

[jerry springer]

Originally posted by Goauld
It would also allow teams to simply offer huge salaries to the best players and have an unbeatable side.

yes i realise that,but it probably hasnt stopped anyone in the past.Lavington used to throw a bit of money around in the 80's and it sent them broke

 

[Goauld]

Yeah it hasn't stopped anyone in the past, but thats the idea of the league enforcing the cap, to stop people doing it. Now they just need to tell us who it was...

 

[rosy3]

I follow the Raiders and was told last year that the salary cap was $80,000. Tim Hargreaves was allegedly offered more than $30,000 to go and play in Canberra. I wonder what he would have been getting paid at Yarrawonga?

 

[jerry springer]

I think in regional leagues it it going to be too hard to police.Most of the player's are only partly semi-professional.They get jobs through the clubs that they play for.whats stopping joe bloggs who plays for the albury tiger's doing some building work but getting paid $50 a hour.

I believe in the idea in principle,but its very hard to police.

 

[jerry springer]

Meanwhile I am away from the region at the moment.Has there been any major signings to any clubs.What's the Goss?

 

[Goauld]

The Raiders got Pender back a couple of weeks ago... Don't know how they convinced him to leave Lavington, but he said he wanted to come home.
No other really big ones that I can think of off hand.