Polak set for PSD at $600,000 for 1 year

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Rumour has it that Polak will probably end up going into the PSD and sticking a big figure on his head for the first year. It seems that Richmond has only been paying about 94% of the cap and with some delistings can fit in Polaks first year salary. The plot thickens!
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thios is a joke right?

The guy isn't worth more than 250k - and that is stretching it massively.

I hope the tigers go for it though, that would be hilarious - he'd be on more money than David Neitz, Brendan Fevola, Brad Johnson and Fraser Gehrig.
 

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Just a rumour that I heard, it is over the odds but I imagine hed sign a 3 year deal which will either see the terms redeveloped or he may get it for the first year then say $150,000 for year 2 and $150,000 for year 3 all up $900,000 for 3 years.
 
Greg Miller would probably be the only bloke in the AFL dumb enough to do something like that.

Nah - not even he's that stupid.
 
Supertiger said:
Rumour has it that Polak will probably end up going into the PSD and sticking a big figure on his head for the first year. It seems that Richmond has only been paying about 94% of the cap and with some delistings can fit in Polaks first year salary. The plot thickens!
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If a club does a deal with a player for say, $750K for 3 years and that player wants to get to that club via the pre season draft, he puts a high price as his terms.

The figure he nominates must go against the salary cap for the duration of the contract he nominates. Once that player gets to the club he can then be contracted for a different amount. But the nominated figure must still be met in the salary cap.

So nominating $600K for 1 year would get him to the club he wants to go to and not be a problem for our salary cap. If another club takes him first they will have to meet the terms nominated. Richmond wouldn't have to pay him anywhere near that amount.
 
I presume you thought Simmonds wasn't worth $250K a year either....

remember that the mean salary will be over $200K a year soon.

talk would be that he is roughly being valued by the market as = pick 8 which is likely to be enough to get Tarrant. Tarrant on $450K.... :rolleyes:
 

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If a club does a deal with a player for say, $750K for 3 years and that player wants to get to that club via the pre season draft, he puts a high price as his terms.

The figure he nominates must go against the salary cap for the duration of the contract he nominates. Once that player gets to the club he can then be contracted for a different amount. But the nominated figure must still be met in the salary cap.

So nominating $600K for 1 year would get him to the club he wants to go to and not be a problem for our salary cap. If another club takes him first they will have to meet the terms nominated. Richmond wouldn't have to pay him anywhere near that amount.
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does this affect future players or other contracts though? ie for polack if you have room in cap for $600k but only pay him $300k is the other
$300k "out of bounds" for use for another player so a club that does this is restricted with what it can pay others?
 
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Freo are over a barrel now. If Polak goes into the PSD they get nothing and theyll probably miss out on Tarrant as well.
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Which is exactly what Graham Polak is worth...........feck all!

I was reading talk of pick 8 going to Freo for Polak? He originally went at #4 in the rookie draft and hindsight indicates that he was a mistake of massive proportions! So, why do Richmond think he is new messiah?
 
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Once that player gets to the club he can then be contracted for a different amount. But the nominated figure must still be met in the salary cap.

So nominating $600K for 1 year would get him to the club he wants to go to and not be a problem for our salary cap. If another club takes him first they will have to meet the terms nominated. Richmond wouldn't have to pay him anywhere near that amount.
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Therefore you can only contract him for 1 year @ $600k and hope to renegotiate a new deal for much less after that 1 year. If he gets a better offer or things don’t go well you can be left with a big $600,000 hole.
 
Beckers said:
Which is exactly what Graham Polak is worth...........feck all!

I was reading talk of pick 8 going to Freo for Polak? He originally went at #4 in the rookie draft and hindsight indicates that he was a mistake of massive proportions! So, why do Richmond think he is new messiah?
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He was #4 in 2001 national draft, not rookie draft. Behind Hodge, Ball, Judd.
Talk is of trading pick 8 for pick 13 and Polak, so just trading down 5 spots for him and RFC would remain in first round of the draft. Given our history it's a real possibility that we may (rightly or wrongly) rate a draftee that will still be there at 13 and would take the same person at #8. Thus, would effectively mean obtaining Polak for nothing (or in your eloquent words "feck all") from our perspective.
 
PHanevski said:
If a club does a deal with a player for say, $750K for 3 years and that player wants to get to that club via the pre season draft, he puts a high price as his terms.

The figure he nominates must go against the salary cap for the duration of the contract he nominates. Once that player gets to the club he can then be contracted for a different amount. But the nominated figure must still be met in the salary cap.

So nominating $600K for 1 year would get him to the club he wants to go to and not be a problem for our salary cap. If another club takes him first they will have to meet the terms nominated. Richmond wouldn't have to pay him anywhere near that amount.
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Richmond would still have to pay him that amount if he asks for it. If it is discovered that an agreement exists between Polak and Richmond to subvert the draft, then penalities may be applied.
 
Beckers said:
Which is exactly what Graham Polak is worth...........feck all!

So, why do Richmond think he is new messiah?
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Agree with your first statement but not the last one. I don't think anybody thinks he's the new messiah. Quite the contrary if you did a bit of snooping around. Plenty of people are not happy with the talk of trading picks for this guy.

Fact is we don't have tall defenders. Fact is we need them desperately. There aren't that many going around that fit the bill. Whilst many of us question his ability there aren't many more available.

Personally I'd rather keep the picks, use the draft and if we cop more shellackings next year then so be it.
 
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