Strategy Salary cap space. 20/21

[Marcel Proust]

If you had to guess the current salary cap space or lack of - each side how would you rank them?

Oe top5 most cap room / least. If you prefer

 

[M Malice]

 

[Virgin Dog]

Dogs would have a bit. We had enormous cap space prior to signing up Bruce and Keath. Likely to lose Schache this year (who is on a decent wage), Suckling and Dickson will retire, then Trengove's free agency contract comes to an end. We've already extended all our important younger guys so nothing to worry about there.

Doubt we have anything close to what Carlton and North have, but wouldn't surprise me if there's a good bit of room left over to play with

 

[Marcel Proust]

Dogs would have a bit. We had enormous cap space prior to signing up Bruce and Keath. Likely to lose Schache this year (who is on a decent wage), Suckling and Dickson will retire, then Trengove's free agency contract comes to an end. We've already extended all our important younger guys so nothing to worry about there.

Doubt we have anything close to what Carlton and North have, but wouldn't surprise me if there's a good bit of room left over to play with

Isn't Carlton currently over the cap?

105 percent, or whatever

 

[Virgin Dog]

Isn't Carlton currently over the cap?

105 percent, or whatever

I believe they were set to come way under, but heavily front loaded Martin's contract. Should have a ton of room with Martin's contract coming way back down, especially with recent retirements

 

[Joao]

Unnecessary thread. Every team has a war chest every year*. Every player is frontloaded and it is now backload time.




* Except the Pies who apparently are the only club that have trouble fitting 5 superstars in one team.

 

[dazedjosh]

We're sitting pretty close to 95% of the cap and we're banking it for a year or two.
Recent outs have been
Hannebery and Rohan (both for very late picks so we wouldn't be paying any of their contracts
McVeigh, Grundy, Jack, Smith - all retiring.
Pretty much all of our kids are signed to 2022 or beyond.
The only players we've signed have been the likes of Jackson Thurlow, Sam Gray, Lewis Taylor, and Kaiden Brand, all on 1 or 2 year contracts.

So we'll be able to hit 2021 free agency in a big way with the 105% cap ceiling that we've been banking and Kennedy and Sinclair both likely to retire, then again in 2022 when Franklin comes off the books, and still have some money left over to re-sign the kids.

Contract wise we timed our rebuild pretty well.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

1. Carlton
2. Port Adelaide
3. Bulldogs
4. St Kilda =/= North Melbourne

 

[PMBangers]

Unnecessary thread. Every team has a war chest every year*. Every player is frontloaded and it is now backload time.




* Except the Pies who apparently are the only club that have trouble fitting 5 superstars in one team.

we should be included in that asterisk

 

[Virgin Dog]

1. Carlton
2. Port Adelaide
3. Bulldogs
4. St Kilda =/= North Melbourne

You basing this on knowledge, or educated guess? I expect we have a lot of space, but would surprised if we have more than Saints and North..

 

[Virgin Dog]

We're sitting pretty close to 95% of the cap and we're banking it for a year or two.
Recent outs have been
Hannebery and Rohan (both for very late picks so we wouldn't be paying any of their contracts
McVeigh, Grundy, Jack, Smith - all retiring.
Pretty much all of our kids are signed to 2022 or beyond.
The only players we've signed have been the likes of Jackson Thurlow, Sam Gray, Lewis Taylor, and Kaiden Brand, all on 1 or 2 year contracts.

So we'll be able to hit 2021 free agency in a big way with the 105% cap ceiling that we've been banking and Kennedy and Sinclair both likely to retire, then again in 2022 when Franklin comes off the books, and still have some money left over to re-sign the kids.

Contract wise we timed our rebuild pretty well.

You guys are going to have an absurd amount of space at end of 2022. Can expect one or two massive FA acquisitions

 

[hawkman]

Given nearly half our list is still unsigned I'm guessing we have a lot of space

 

[PAFC27]

You basing this on knowledge, or educated guess? I expect we have a lot of space, but would surprised if we have more than Saints and North..

C4 knows all.

 

[Virgin Dog]

C4 knows all.

 

[dazedjosh]

You guys are going to have an absurd amount of space at end of 2022. Can expect one or two massive FA acquisitions

Yeah, it's why I don't think we're chasing Daniher that hard this year, '21 and '22 are going to be our big years. While '23 and '24 have some big re-signings.

 

[Buzzasto DaSilva]

We don't have a satay cap. Gil buys us who we want with ambassadorial payments.

 

[PMBangers]

We don't have a satay cap. Gil buys us who we want with ambassadorial payments.

I'm glad we don't have a cap, I hear Satay is really popular amongst the playing group

 

[Lore]

I'm glad we don't have a cap, I hear Satay is really popular amongst the playing group

Nut pastes are apparently a great source of protein.

 

[PMBangers]

Nut pastes are apparently a great source of protein.

I'm more of a microwavable meal type of guy

 

[Lore]

I'm more of a microwavable meal type of guy

I don't recommend microwaving steak.

 

[JLC]

Geelong always have the most.

Every year they are in a position to recruit RFA. Salary cap space is never mentioned as an issue.

The End.

 

[Joshen]

A couple of years ago, the comment was "a few clubs have warchests, North have a bank".

Not sure about what it looks like now but I'd suspect we have a fair bit of space.

 

[Shinboner1]

North just offloaded some big contracts (mason wood, jmac, jacobs and others) to add to their insane warchest. Polec was on a heavily front loaded contract so majority of his contract is gone too and the club really doesn't have anyone warranting a contract worth over 800-900k. Reckon we have easily 2.5-4mil going into this trade period. All speculation of course. North obviously has had some issues with acquiring players in the past but one good thing is that the club never had to overpay their players to keep them as others had.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

You basing this on knowledge, or educated guess? I expect we have a lot of space, but would surprised if we have more than Saints and North..

I don’t think anyone knows for sure; I’m only going by ball park figures/educated guess especially when it comes to Dogs/Saints/Nth.

 

[Marcel Proust]

I believe they were set to come way under, but heavily front loaded Martin's contract. Should have a ton of room with Martin's contract coming way back down, especially with recent retirements

itd be fascinating to see carltons books