That's the game.
We've paid more than we wanted to for Tippett. If left to our own devices we wouldn't have offered Tippett so much money and potentially we're going down the same path with Walker. We're being forced to pay our players more along the lines of their market value, rather than the pecking order / tenure / seniority fairness pay scale we prefer.
At some stage a player will get squeezed out because there aren't the dollars to keep them. When this happens I hope we're able to differentiate between the expendable and the inexpendable.
Expendable: Maric, Moran, Reilly, Symes, Armstrong, Cook, Sellar, Douglas
Inexpendable: Tippett, Vince, Dangerfield, Thompson, Walker, Mackay, Otten, Johncock, Porplyzia, Sloane
Ideally we'd keep most of these guys )both lists) but if dollars get tight (and they will) then I hope we're able to make correct, non-emotional assessments.