Salary cap

[error404]

Maybe it's time for standard player payments. No more paying a fortune to a dud (TC) No need for player manages filling players heads with shyte. Quality player will be rewarded and duds get base salary and we wouldn't have parasites like Ron Joseph hanging around trying to bankrupt clubs

$60,000 base salary
$3,000 per game 22 games = $66,000
+ Bonuses for team rankings at the end of the year
1st $400,000, 2nd $300,000 and so on.
Most improved $50,000
Best mark $50,000
Best goal $50,000

 

[ozzult]

You make an interesting point, but how on earth is one single mark or one single goal worth $50,000 on it's own?

 

[error404]

OK $5,000 best mark - goal wot ever, share the cake any way you like. the salary cap is $6.2m and 38 players all want a slice.


1 Peter Bell $526,000
2 Matthew Pavlich $426,000
3 Paul Hasleby
4 Robert Haddrill
5 Shaun McManus
6 Matthew Carr
7 James Walker
8 Paul Medhurst
9 Dion Woods
10 Roger Hayden

 

[Rob]

Nothing stopping clubs doing something like that now. Of course, few of the top players would want to play for them, as if they do a knee and miss a season instead of getting $400k, they end up with $60k. Players have mortgages and bills to pay as well.

 

[error404]

I have a mortgages and bills to pay as well, I work 50 hours and I would love to earn 60k per year. I bet Calton wish they had player payments like this instead of paying squilions to Kouta while he spent 2 years on the bench with a crook knee.

 

[Rob]

Originally posted by error404
I have a mortgages and bills to pay as well, I work 50 hours and I would love to earn 60k per year. I bet Calton wish they had player payments like this instead of paying squilions to Kouta while he spent 2 years on the bench with a crook knee.

Maybe, but that's their call.

These are the best footballers in Australia. You take the best in just about any profession and they are paid handsomely, in many cases more so than footballers. Have a look at what any CEO of a top 100 company earns. Wouldn't be too many under $1m a year, plus incentives.

Any footballer (like just about anyone else) wants a relative degree of certainty in their income. To go from $400k one year, doing your knee in the last game and then going to $60k the next because you're injured is ludicrous. I don't have a problem with incentive based deals but keep it relative. Maybe a $300k deal with a possible $100k performance bonus for example.

 

[error404]

Rob.... maaate...... You have missed my point...... I don't have a problem with AFL footballers making a quid....I want clubs to use the full salary cap............. it's player managers acting like pimps selling their whores to the highest bidder, even if it means the club has to get rid of other quality players to accommodate their whore. Standard contracts.... no pimps, All players know where they stand.
1 Peter Bell $526,000
2 Matthew Pavlich $476,000
3 Paul Hasleby $426,000
4 Robert Haddrill ..... is that you mate $400,000
5 Shaun McManus
6 Matthew Carr
7 James Walker
8 Paul Medhurst
9 Dion Woods
10 Roger Hayden

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[Rob]

Originally posted by error404
Rob.... maaate...... You have missed my point...... I don't have a problem with AFL footballers making a quid....I want clubs to use the full salary cap............. it's player managers acting like pimps selling their whores to the highest bidder, even if it means the club has to get rid of other quality players to accommodate their whore. Standard contracts.... no pimps, All players know where they stand.

In a perfect world, that would be nice. But I can assure you, that there is no chance in hell that the AFLPA would allow across the board contracts where a vast majority of a players salary comes from incentives, because the players themselves wouldn't cop it.

Put yourself in, say, Chris Grant's shoes. He spends $1m on a house in a nice part of Melbourne during the off season in the understanding that he will earn $400k this season. Under your contract scenario, the fact he did his knee in means his salary is now $60k for the year and he has to sell his house because he can't afford the mortgage repayments.

Let's stay realistic here.

 

[error404]

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