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I cant believe you’re questioning the Herald Sun’s journalistic accuracy and integrity. Remember, this is based on “hundreds of calls to industry figures” so they have to be completely correct and not just complete guesswork.
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Jack Macrae
Club: Western Bulldogs
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Just over a month after becoming a premiership player, Macrae signed a four-year contract extension taking him through to the end of 2022. Elevated his game to a new level last year, becoming an All-Australian for the first time.
Matt Crouch
Club: Adelaide
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a three-year contract extension to remain a Crow coming off an All-Australian season when he was club champion and broke the AFL record for the most possessions in a season at that point. That contract extends to 2021 but he is battling for form after being dropped already this year.
Mitch Duncan
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Western Australian clubs have been trying to lay their hands on the classy wingman for years. He is one of the best kicks at the Cats. Bypassed his 2020 free agency rights when he signed a four-year extension last year, keeping him at the club until 2024.
Jack Darling
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a massive five-year deal in 2019 as a West Coast premiership hero, that deal locking him in as an Eagles player for life. Like many stars he took a long-term deal that allowed the club to keep its list together even though he could have accepted more by moving to the eastern seaboard. How many one-on-one contests has Josh Kennedy benefited from after Darling's hard-running play?
Jack Billings
Club: St Kilda
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Billings waited until he realised his potential as a wingman and half-forward who effortlessly wins possessions and makes use of them with a lethal left foot when he signed a two-year deal through to 2021 in June last year. Essendon had long been a suitor but he never considered leaving and is now in the very elite of wingmen.
Jared Polec
Club: North Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Kane Cornes questioned whether "the footy world has gone mad" when North Melbourne made Polec an offer he couldn't refuse in late 2018. The five-year deal, believed to be around $700,000 per season, dwarfed Port Adelaide's offer by two years and almost $2 million. His deal runs through until the end of the 2023 season, when he will be 31.
Jake Lever
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
It was weird how Adelaide handled his departure, given how many Crows players have done exactly the same thing leaving the club in recent years. Regardless, the trade hasn't paid off for Melbourne yet as the defender did his knee and missed a year of footy. Better as the third defender.
Steven May
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Collingwood was keen on May too, but didn't have the high draft pick to satisfy the Suns. So Melbourne opened its wallet for another key defender only one year after landing Jake Lever. Things got off to a rocky start last year but May has been one of Melbourne's best players since he returned to the side.
Chad Wingard
Club: Hawthorn
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Had work to do over the off-season after a modest first season in brown and gold. But the former Port Adelaide matchwinner has hit his straps this year, re-establishing his reputation as a lethal ball-user. Hawthorn handed over plenty for him - Ryan Burton and pick No. 18.
Michael Hurley
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a big deal worth about $800,000 a year to stay when the Western Bulldogs dangled the carrot in 2016. It was a tough situation for the gun defender and he opened up on the emotion of the drugs saga in a teary Footy Show interview. Has been consistent since then and is tied up until 2022.
Club: Western Bulldogs
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Just over a month after becoming a premiership player, Macrae signed a four-year contract extension taking him through to the end of 2022. Elevated his game to a new level last year, becoming an All-Australian for the first time.
Matt Crouch
Club: Adelaide
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a three-year contract extension to remain a Crow coming off an All-Australian season when he was club champion and broke the AFL record for the most possessions in a season at that point. That contract extends to 2021 but he is battling for form after being dropped already this year.
Mitch Duncan
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Western Australian clubs have been trying to lay their hands on the classy wingman for years. He is one of the best kicks at the Cats. Bypassed his 2020 free agency rights when he signed a four-year extension last year, keeping him at the club until 2024.
Jack Darling
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a massive five-year deal in 2019 as a West Coast premiership hero, that deal locking him in as an Eagles player for life. Like many stars he took a long-term deal that allowed the club to keep its list together even though he could have accepted more by moving to the eastern seaboard. How many one-on-one contests has Josh Kennedy benefited from after Darling's hard-running play?
Jack Billings
Club: St Kilda
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Billings waited until he realised his potential as a wingman and half-forward who effortlessly wins possessions and makes use of them with a lethal left foot when he signed a two-year deal through to 2021 in June last year. Essendon had long been a suitor but he never considered leaving and is now in the very elite of wingmen.
Jared Polec
Club: North Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Kane Cornes questioned whether "the footy world has gone mad" when North Melbourne made Polec an offer he couldn't refuse in late 2018. The five-year deal, believed to be around $700,000 per season, dwarfed Port Adelaide's offer by two years and almost $2 million. His deal runs through until the end of the 2023 season, when he will be 31.
Jake Lever
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
It was weird how Adelaide handled his departure, given how many Crows players have done exactly the same thing leaving the club in recent years. Regardless, the trade hasn't paid off for Melbourne yet as the defender did his knee and missed a year of footy. Better as the third defender.
Steven May
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Collingwood was keen on May too, but didn't have the high draft pick to satisfy the Suns. So Melbourne opened its wallet for another key defender only one year after landing Jake Lever. Things got off to a rocky start last year but May has been one of Melbourne's best players since he returned to the side.
Chad Wingard
Club: Hawthorn
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Had work to do over the off-season after a modest first season in brown and gold. But the former Port Adelaide matchwinner has hit his straps this year, re-establishing his reputation as a lethal ball-user. Hawthorn handed over plenty for him - Ryan Burton and pick No. 18.
Michael Hurley
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a big deal worth about $800,000 a year to stay when the Western Bulldogs dangled the carrot in 2016. It was a tough situation for the gun defender and he opened up on the emotion of the drugs saga in a teary Footy Show interview. Has been consistent since then and is tied up until 2022.
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Lachie Whitfield
Club: GWS Giants
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a mega seven-year deal at the Giants which will reward Whitfield handsomely for his long-term loyalty. The Dandenong product is one of the best ball users in the game. St Kilda has chased the No.1 draft pick hard and he is worth the big bucks.
Clayton Oliver
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
His price rose quickly, in line with his excellent form over the first four years of his career, making him one of the biggest earners of his age bracket. The hard-nut ball-winner with laser-like hands is already a two-time best-and-fairest winner. Garry Lyon said he was the club's best midfielder in 40 years.
Ollie Wines
Club: Port Adelaide
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Wines was one of footy's hottest properties when he secured a megadeal to remain at Port Adelaide on a four-year contract that runs through to 2020. Since then he has battled shoulder injuries and lost the captaincy. The last few years of this deal get really big really quickly, impeding his trade ambitions. But it was a coup to re-sign him as Victorian teams came hard at the inside mid.
Tom Mitchell
Club: Hawthorn
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a two-year extension midway through last year as he rehabilitated from his horrific leg injury. It locked him in to 2023 - giving Mitchell long-term security - but came at a slight discount. Won the Brownlow in 2018 and came from Sydney for a bargain pick - No.14.
Joe Daniher
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Probably the most intriguing contract situation in the game. Still keen on a move to Sydney, but how much he will get up north - and subsequently what compensation Essendon would get in return - depends on his comeback from serious groin troubles.
Dyson Heppell
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
The Bombers did well to keep him at the height of the drugs saga. He helped hold the club together through that period and again recently re-signed for another two years. Hard to see the midfielder ever leaving.
Luke Shuey
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $725,000-$775,000
COVID SALARY: $522,000-$558,000
Shuey will go down in West Coast history as a Norm Smith medallist in a premiership side. He signed a four-year extension worth in excess of $3 million in 2017 as the joint vice-captain. He is locked in to 2022 and, having only turned 30 last month, has plenty of great football left, even if he succumbed to a hamstring injury while in hub-life in Queensland.
Taylor Walker
Club: Adelaide
SALARY: $725,000-$775,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Signed a contract at the peak of his powers in the 2017 season, having been voted footy's best captain the previous season. Contracted through to the end of 2021 and, while his powers have diminished, he was once one of footy's most dominant forwards and leaders. Has another season to run on his deal.
Ben Cunnington
Club: North Melbourne
SALARY: $725,000-$775,000
COVID SALARY: $522,000-$558,000
So often classed as North Melbourne's barometer, the hard inside-mid turned his back on free agency in the middle of last season by locking in until the end of 2022. That two-year extension, signed last July, means he will be 31 in the final year of his current deal.
Trent Cotchin
Club: Richmond
SALARY: $750,00-$800,000
COVID SALARY: $540,000-$576,000
Richmond's inspirational skipper was already locked in until the end of the 2020 season when he added two more years in a deal he signed with the club in mid- 2018, just a month after Riewoldt recommitted. The dual premiership captain will be 32 when his current deal expires at the end of 2022.
Club: GWS Giants
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a mega seven-year deal at the Giants which will reward Whitfield handsomely for his long-term loyalty. The Dandenong product is one of the best ball users in the game. St Kilda has chased the No.1 draft pick hard and he is worth the big bucks.
Clayton Oliver
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
His price rose quickly, in line with his excellent form over the first four years of his career, making him one of the biggest earners of his age bracket. The hard-nut ball-winner with laser-like hands is already a two-time best-and-fairest winner. Garry Lyon said he was the club's best midfielder in 40 years.
Ollie Wines
Club: Port Adelaide
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Wines was one of footy's hottest properties when he secured a megadeal to remain at Port Adelaide on a four-year contract that runs through to 2020. Since then he has battled shoulder injuries and lost the captaincy. The last few years of this deal get really big really quickly, impeding his trade ambitions. But it was a coup to re-sign him as Victorian teams came hard at the inside mid.
Tom Mitchell
Club: Hawthorn
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Signed a two-year extension midway through last year as he rehabilitated from his horrific leg injury. It locked him in to 2023 - giving Mitchell long-term security - but came at a slight discount. Won the Brownlow in 2018 and came from Sydney for a bargain pick - No.14.
Joe Daniher
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
Probably the most intriguing contract situation in the game. Still keen on a move to Sydney, but how much he will get up north - and subsequently what compensation Essendon would get in return - depends on his comeback from serious groin troubles.
Dyson Heppell
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $700,000-$750,000
COVID SALARY: $504,000-$540,000
The Bombers did well to keep him at the height of the drugs saga. He helped hold the club together through that period and again recently re-signed for another two years. Hard to see the midfielder ever leaving.
Luke Shuey
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $725,000-$775,000
COVID SALARY: $522,000-$558,000
Shuey will go down in West Coast history as a Norm Smith medallist in a premiership side. He signed a four-year extension worth in excess of $3 million in 2017 as the joint vice-captain. He is locked in to 2022 and, having only turned 30 last month, has plenty of great football left, even if he succumbed to a hamstring injury while in hub-life in Queensland.
Taylor Walker
Club: Adelaide
SALARY: $725,000-$775,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Signed a contract at the peak of his powers in the 2017 season, having been voted footy's best captain the previous season. Contracted through to the end of 2021 and, while his powers have diminished, he was once one of footy's most dominant forwards and leaders. Has another season to run on his deal.
Ben Cunnington
Club: North Melbourne
SALARY: $725,000-$775,000
COVID SALARY: $522,000-$558,000
So often classed as North Melbourne's barometer, the hard inside-mid turned his back on free agency in the middle of last season by locking in until the end of 2022. That two-year extension, signed last July, means he will be 31 in the final year of his current deal.
Trent Cotchin
Club: Richmond
SALARY: $750,00-$800,000
COVID SALARY: $540,000-$576,000
Richmond's inspirational skipper was already locked in until the end of the 2020 season when he added two more years in a deal he signed with the club in mid- 2018, just a month after Riewoldt recommitted. The dual premiership captain will be 32 when his current deal expires at the end of 2022.
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Jack Riewoldt
Club: Richmond
SALARY: $750,00-$800,000
COVID SALARY: $540,000-$576,000
The three-time Coleman medallist is locked away until the end of 2021, having restructured his 2019 contract as well as adding two more years in mid-2018. At the time, Riewoldt said he had taken a pay cut in order to help the club's list management. When his current deal expires, Riewoldt will be about to turn 33.
Tim Kelly
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $750,000-$800,000
COVID SALARY: $540,000-$576,000
Kelly got the six-year deal he was asking for and might be able to earn a touch over $800,000 with marketing and bonuses, but couldn't be happier to have got home to be among family after two fabulous seasons at Geelong. For a young bloke playing WAFL footy not too long ago, that deal of around $5 million has set him up for life.
Robbie Gray
Club: Port Adelaide
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Gray has just signed a one-year contract extension through to 2021 and remains one of the game's most dynamic matchwinners. The three-time best-and-fairest winner remains on a great salary for a Power side that had to push some money back into the latter year of deals due to financial pressures in 2019.
Travis Boak
Club: Port Adelaide
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Boak has committed to the Power to 2022, having signed a two-year deal earlier this year as the reigning best-and-fairest winner. Port Adelaide pushed back some money from contracts from 2019 through to 2020, with the loyal Boak one of the highest-paid players at the club.
Adam Treloar
Club: Collingwood
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Like many Pies, including Taylor Adams, he has accepted the security of a longer-term deal but slightly less money as the only way the list can stay together in the premiership window. The Pies knocked back a trade enquiry from Gold Coast last year - Collingwood would have wanted pick one or two in exchange - for Treloar.
Jordan De Goey
Club: Collingwood
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
De Goey's two-year contract didn't come cheap and is slightly back-ended. It is understood to start with an eight this year including incentives and a marketing allowance (ASA).
Luke Parker
Club: Sydney Swans
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Sydney locked away Parker as a 23-year-old with the world at his feet, having become the youngest Swan to win the club championship. Out of contract again in 2021, he has rewarded the club with two 500-possession and two 600-possession seasons, always getting on the scoresheet with an average of 18 goals in the past four seasons.
Elliot Yeo
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Yeo famously left Brisbane after the Lions lowballed him on a deal and then almost doubled his salary when he accepted close to $800,000 on a five-year extension. The versatile midfielder-tagger-forward has barely missed a game since signing that deal through to 2023. The resume is glittering, with two All-Australian blazers and two best-and-fairest awards with the Eagles.
Dylan Shiel
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Carlton flew him up to Noosa on a private jet and, like the Saints, offered him more than $1 million a year. But Shiel took less money to move to Essendon in the belief his chances of on-field success were greater at Tullamarine. In peak form.
Jaeger O'۪Meara
Club: Hawthorn
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
The highest-paid Hawk carried a huge load in 2019 after Tom Mitchell went down with a broken leg. The Western Australian has dismissed any doubts over his knee after a nightmare injury run early in his career and signed a four-year extension with Hawthorn last season. Next club captain.
Club: Richmond
SALARY: $750,00-$800,000
COVID SALARY: $540,000-$576,000
The three-time Coleman medallist is locked away until the end of 2021, having restructured his 2019 contract as well as adding two more years in mid-2018. At the time, Riewoldt said he had taken a pay cut in order to help the club's list management. When his current deal expires, Riewoldt will be about to turn 33.
Tim Kelly
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $750,000-$800,000
COVID SALARY: $540,000-$576,000
Kelly got the six-year deal he was asking for and might be able to earn a touch over $800,000 with marketing and bonuses, but couldn't be happier to have got home to be among family after two fabulous seasons at Geelong. For a young bloke playing WAFL footy not too long ago, that deal of around $5 million has set him up for life.
Robbie Gray
Club: Port Adelaide
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Gray has just signed a one-year contract extension through to 2021 and remains one of the game's most dynamic matchwinners. The three-time best-and-fairest winner remains on a great salary for a Power side that had to push some money back into the latter year of deals due to financial pressures in 2019.
Travis Boak
Club: Port Adelaide
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Boak has committed to the Power to 2022, having signed a two-year deal earlier this year as the reigning best-and-fairest winner. Port Adelaide pushed back some money from contracts from 2019 through to 2020, with the loyal Boak one of the highest-paid players at the club.
Adam Treloar
Club: Collingwood
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Like many Pies, including Taylor Adams, he has accepted the security of a longer-term deal but slightly less money as the only way the list can stay together in the premiership window. The Pies knocked back a trade enquiry from Gold Coast last year - Collingwood would have wanted pick one or two in exchange - for Treloar.
Jordan De Goey
Club: Collingwood
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
De Goey's two-year contract didn't come cheap and is slightly back-ended. It is understood to start with an eight this year including incentives and a marketing allowance (ASA).
Luke Parker
Club: Sydney Swans
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Sydney locked away Parker as a 23-year-old with the world at his feet, having become the youngest Swan to win the club championship. Out of contract again in 2021, he has rewarded the club with two 500-possession and two 600-possession seasons, always getting on the scoresheet with an average of 18 goals in the past four seasons.
Elliot Yeo
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Yeo famously left Brisbane after the Lions lowballed him on a deal and then almost doubled his salary when he accepted close to $800,000 on a five-year extension. The versatile midfielder-tagger-forward has barely missed a game since signing that deal through to 2023. The resume is glittering, with two All-Australian blazers and two best-and-fairest awards with the Eagles.
Dylan Shiel
Club: Essendon
SALARY: $775,000-$825,000
COVID SALARY: $558,000-$594,000
Carlton flew him up to Noosa on a private jet and, like the Saints, offered him more than $1 million a year. But Shiel took less money to move to Essendon in the belief his chances of on-field success were greater at Tullamarine. In peak form.
Jaeger O'۪Meara
Club: Hawthorn
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
The highest-paid Hawk carried a huge load in 2019 after Tom Mitchell went down with a broken leg. The Western Australian has dismissed any doubts over his knee after a nightmare injury run early in his career and signed a four-year extension with Hawthorn last season. Next club captain.
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Tom Hawkins
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Signed a bumper five-year contract when Fremantle was hot for a key forward back in 2015. Hawkins has delivered handsomely for the blue and white, leading the club's goal kicking eight times and earning All-Australian honours for the second time last season. Might sign one year deals beyond this year.
Josh Kelly
Club: GWS Giants
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Was one of the most sought-after players in the game when he signed a landmark deal in 2019 which gave him ultimate flexibility. The six-year contract ensured Kelly would earn top dollar for the entirety of the deal. But an exit clause means Kelly also has the ability to bail next year.
Andrew Gaff
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Free agent Gaff signed a six-year contract with a trigger clause that allowed him to consider his options after two seasons. That will happen this year and while he was rumoured to be on as much as $1 million a season he accepted less than that to help keep this list together. It was a stunning display of loyalty.
David Swallow
Club: Gold Coast Suns
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
The No.1 draft pick stuck fat despite rival interest when Steven May and Tom Lynch departed, signing a five-year contract extension in November 2018. As usual he had suitors back in West Australia but decided he would stick around and build the club from its foundations again.
Scott Pendlebury
Club: Collingwood
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Pendlebury penned a massive four-year extension in 2015 at the peak of his powers and signed on early this year to extend his deal through to 2021. For many years Pendlebury would have been Collingwood's highest-paid player - if not in the top three - but the expectation is that in his latter years he has taken a pay cut to keep the list together.
Rory Sloane
Club: Adelaide
SALARY: $825,000-$875,000
COVID SALARY: $594,000-$630,000
The Adelaide captain made a huge sacrifice to remain in Adelaide, shunning free agency and resisting the pull of home when the two-time club champion signed on until 2023. Worth every dollar as a hard-at-it talismanic presence. Sloane could have picked his own club if he decided to return home to Melbourne.
Isaac Heeney
Club: Sydney Swans
SALARY: $825,000-$875,000
COVID SALARY: $594,000-$630,000
Sydney's newest pin-up boy could have backed up the truck to secure a mega-deal from North Melbourne but still profited from his talent and marketability when he added a further five years to his deal in 2016. With marketing dollars he will take home over $800,000 this season.
Joel Selwood
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $850,000-$900,000
COVID SALARY: $612,000-$648,000
Selwood's excellent form was pivotal to Geelong's strong start to 2020. He polled 27 AFL Coaches Association votes in his first six games after an injury-hampered 2019. It shows the skipper remains one of the club's most important players. Well paid since he took over as captain.
Bradley Hill
Club: St Kilda
SALARY: $875,000-$925,000
COVID SALARY: $630,000-$666,000
Hill hasn't set the world on fire in recent weeks but is exactly what St Kilda needed in their phenomenally successful off-season of trades, signing a long-term deal that can earn him as much as $900,000 a season to be the king of the Marvel Stadium wing. Exactly the kind of acquisition the Saints squirrelled away cap space for.
Patrick Cripps
Club: Carlton
SALARY: $900,000-$950,000
COVID SALARY: $648,000-$684,000
Instead of turning the screws and extracting every dollar he could from the Blues in his last contract, Cripps left some on the table so Carlton could build a premiership list. He signed a contract in 2018 that kept him at the club through to 2021. The perfect captain, midfielder and marketable star, there is no danger of him flying the nest.
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Signed a bumper five-year contract when Fremantle was hot for a key forward back in 2015. Hawkins has delivered handsomely for the blue and white, leading the club's goal kicking eight times and earning All-Australian honours for the second time last season. Might sign one year deals beyond this year.
Josh Kelly
Club: GWS Giants
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Was one of the most sought-after players in the game when he signed a landmark deal in 2019 which gave him ultimate flexibility. The six-year contract ensured Kelly would earn top dollar for the entirety of the deal. But an exit clause means Kelly also has the ability to bail next year.
Andrew Gaff
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Free agent Gaff signed a six-year contract with a trigger clause that allowed him to consider his options after two seasons. That will happen this year and while he was rumoured to be on as much as $1 million a season he accepted less than that to help keep this list together. It was a stunning display of loyalty.
David Swallow
Club: Gold Coast Suns
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
The No.1 draft pick stuck fat despite rival interest when Steven May and Tom Lynch departed, signing a five-year contract extension in November 2018. As usual he had suitors back in West Australia but decided he would stick around and build the club from its foundations again.
Scott Pendlebury
Club: Collingwood
SALARY: $800,000-$850,000
COVID SALARY: $576,000-$612,000
Pendlebury penned a massive four-year extension in 2015 at the peak of his powers and signed on early this year to extend his deal through to 2021. For many years Pendlebury would have been Collingwood's highest-paid player - if not in the top three - but the expectation is that in his latter years he has taken a pay cut to keep the list together.
Rory Sloane
Club: Adelaide
SALARY: $825,000-$875,000
COVID SALARY: $594,000-$630,000
The Adelaide captain made a huge sacrifice to remain in Adelaide, shunning free agency and resisting the pull of home when the two-time club champion signed on until 2023. Worth every dollar as a hard-at-it talismanic presence. Sloane could have picked his own club if he decided to return home to Melbourne.
Isaac Heeney
Club: Sydney Swans
SALARY: $825,000-$875,000
COVID SALARY: $594,000-$630,000
Sydney's newest pin-up boy could have backed up the truck to secure a mega-deal from North Melbourne but still profited from his talent and marketability when he added a further five years to his deal in 2016. With marketing dollars he will take home over $800,000 this season.
Joel Selwood
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $850,000-$900,000
COVID SALARY: $612,000-$648,000
Selwood's excellent form was pivotal to Geelong's strong start to 2020. He polled 27 AFL Coaches Association votes in his first six games after an injury-hampered 2019. It shows the skipper remains one of the club's most important players. Well paid since he took over as captain.
Bradley Hill
Club: St Kilda
SALARY: $875,000-$925,000
COVID SALARY: $630,000-$666,000
Hill hasn't set the world on fire in recent weeks but is exactly what St Kilda needed in their phenomenally successful off-season of trades, signing a long-term deal that can earn him as much as $900,000 a season to be the king of the Marvel Stadium wing. Exactly the kind of acquisition the Saints squirrelled away cap space for.
Patrick Cripps
Club: Carlton
SALARY: $900,000-$950,000
COVID SALARY: $648,000-$684,000
Instead of turning the screws and extracting every dollar he could from the Blues in his last contract, Cripps left some on the table so Carlton could build a premiership list. He signed a contract in 2018 that kept him at the club through to 2021. The perfect captain, midfielder and marketable star, there is no danger of him flying the nest.
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Max Gawn
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $900,000-$950,000
COVID SALARY: $648,000-$684,000
Melbourne's highest-paid player deserved the big dough. And he could earn closer to seven figures if he capitalises on some performance incentives as one of the top-two ruckmen in the game. Also one of footy's most marketable stars for endorsement deals.
Lachie Neale
Club: Brisbane Lions
SALARY: $900,000-$950,000
COVID SALARY: $648,000-$684,000
Neale won the Lions best-and-fairest in an extraordinary first season with the club, but he has taken his game to an even higher plane this year. He was handed a five-year deal from Brisbane at the end of 2018 and while his average is lower, this year's component is in the mid $950,000-range. The 27-year-old's current deal runs until the end of 2022
Marcus Bontempelli
Club: Western Bulldogs
SALARY: $950,000-$1,000,000
COVID SALARY: $684,000-$720,000
Dogs fans rejoiced when 'the Bont' extended two more years to the remaining year of his contract in late 2018. That takes him through to the end of 2021, and it's near impossible to see any rival prying the Bulldogs skipper away from the Whitten Oval. The Dogs will be looking to have him locked away again by early next season.
Jeremy McGovern
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $1,000,000-$1,050,000
COVID SALARY: $720,000-$756,000
McGovern owns one of footy's richest deals, securing a $6 million deal over five seasons in 2018. But that deal is back-ended so he is believed to be on just over $1 million this year before the contract rises in coming seasons. Like many sides in premiership contention, West Coast has had to back-end some deals to remain in the premiership window.
Patrick Dangerfield
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $1,000,000-$1,050,000
COVID SALARY: $720,000-$756,000
On track to win his eighth All-Australian guernsey this year and fifth-straight since he joined the Cats at the end of 2015. Has been one of the top few players in the competition over that time, clearly justifying the big money. Locked away until the end of 2024.
Jack Martin
Club: Carlton
SALARY: $1,100,000-$1,150,000
COVID SALARY: $792,000-$828,000
Martin is footy's unluckiest player after Jeremy Cameron given they are on massively inflated deals for 2020 compared to the average salary of their total contracts, and players are taking a total 30 per cent cut. The average yearly wage in his contract is about $600,000 but the deal was front-ended because the Blues had cap space and wanted to scare off rivals in the pre-season draft.
Dustin Martin
Club: Richmond
SALARY: $1,175,000-$1,225,000
COVID SALARY: $846,000-$882,000
One of the most talked-about contracts in football history - and also one of the most lucrative - runs until the end of 2024. A seven-year, $8.4 million deal was significantly less than what Martin had been offered to join North Melbourne, but it was enough for him to remain a Tiger effectively for life. Will turn 33 in the final year of his deal.
Nat Fyfe
Club: Fremantle
SALARY: $1,200,000-$1,250,000
COVID SALARY: $864,000-$900,000
Fyfe deserves every cent he gets and the expectation is that an average contract of $1.1-$1.5 million is heavily-front ended when the AFL's official figures come out early next year. Because who else are the Dockers paying? The dual Brownlow medallist secured a six-year deal when Victorian clubs were lining up to pitch for his services
Lance Franklin
Club: Sydney Swans
SALARY: $1,400,000-$1,450,000
COVID SALARY: $1,008,000-$1,044,000
One of the few contracts that is publicly known, Franklin is due $1.4 million in the third-last season of his nine-year contract. He hasn't won a flag for the Swans but by every metric his free agency acquisition has been a masterstroke, even if the contract lifts to $1.5 million in 2021 before dropping to about $1 million in 2022.
Jeremy Cameron
Club: GWS Giants
SALARY: $1,500,000-$1,550,000
COVID SALARY: $1,080,000-$1,116,000
Signed a heavily back-ended deal which is set to earn the Coleman medallist more than $1.5 million this year - making him the game's biggest earner in 2020. Unfortunately, this year's COVID-19 pay cuts will ensure Cameron misses out on a huge chunk. Terrible timing.
Club: Melbourne
SALARY: $900,000-$950,000
COVID SALARY: $648,000-$684,000
Melbourne's highest-paid player deserved the big dough. And he could earn closer to seven figures if he capitalises on some performance incentives as one of the top-two ruckmen in the game. Also one of footy's most marketable stars for endorsement deals.
Lachie Neale
Club: Brisbane Lions
SALARY: $900,000-$950,000
COVID SALARY: $648,000-$684,000
Neale won the Lions best-and-fairest in an extraordinary first season with the club, but he has taken his game to an even higher plane this year. He was handed a five-year deal from Brisbane at the end of 2018 and while his average is lower, this year's component is in the mid $950,000-range. The 27-year-old's current deal runs until the end of 2022
Marcus Bontempelli
Club: Western Bulldogs
SALARY: $950,000-$1,000,000
COVID SALARY: $684,000-$720,000
Dogs fans rejoiced when 'the Bont' extended two more years to the remaining year of his contract in late 2018. That takes him through to the end of 2021, and it's near impossible to see any rival prying the Bulldogs skipper away from the Whitten Oval. The Dogs will be looking to have him locked away again by early next season.
Jeremy McGovern
Club: West Coast
SALARY: $1,000,000-$1,050,000
COVID SALARY: $720,000-$756,000
McGovern owns one of footy's richest deals, securing a $6 million deal over five seasons in 2018. But that deal is back-ended so he is believed to be on just over $1 million this year before the contract rises in coming seasons. Like many sides in premiership contention, West Coast has had to back-end some deals to remain in the premiership window.
Patrick Dangerfield
Club: Geelong
SALARY: $1,000,000-$1,050,000
COVID SALARY: $720,000-$756,000
On track to win his eighth All-Australian guernsey this year and fifth-straight since he joined the Cats at the end of 2015. Has been one of the top few players in the competition over that time, clearly justifying the big money. Locked away until the end of 2024.
Jack Martin
Club: Carlton
SALARY: $1,100,000-$1,150,000
COVID SALARY: $792,000-$828,000
Martin is footy's unluckiest player after Jeremy Cameron given they are on massively inflated deals for 2020 compared to the average salary of their total contracts, and players are taking a total 30 per cent cut. The average yearly wage in his contract is about $600,000 but the deal was front-ended because the Blues had cap space and wanted to scare off rivals in the pre-season draft.
Dustin Martin
Club: Richmond
SALARY: $1,175,000-$1,225,000
COVID SALARY: $846,000-$882,000
One of the most talked-about contracts in football history - and also one of the most lucrative - runs until the end of 2024. A seven-year, $8.4 million deal was significantly less than what Martin had been offered to join North Melbourne, but it was enough for him to remain a Tiger effectively for life. Will turn 33 in the final year of his deal.
Nat Fyfe
Club: Fremantle
SALARY: $1,200,000-$1,250,000
COVID SALARY: $864,000-$900,000
Fyfe deserves every cent he gets and the expectation is that an average contract of $1.1-$1.5 million is heavily-front ended when the AFL's official figures come out early next year. Because who else are the Dockers paying? The dual Brownlow medallist secured a six-year deal when Victorian clubs were lining up to pitch for his services
Lance Franklin
Club: Sydney Swans
SALARY: $1,400,000-$1,450,000
COVID SALARY: $1,008,000-$1,044,000
One of the few contracts that is publicly known, Franklin is due $1.4 million in the third-last season of his nine-year contract. He hasn't won a flag for the Swans but by every metric his free agency acquisition has been a masterstroke, even if the contract lifts to $1.5 million in 2021 before dropping to about $1 million in 2022.
Jeremy Cameron
Club: GWS Giants
SALARY: $1,500,000-$1,550,000
COVID SALARY: $1,080,000-$1,116,000
Signed a heavily back-ended deal which is set to earn the Coleman medallist more than $1.5 million this year - making him the game's biggest earner in 2020. Unfortunately, this year's COVID-19 pay cuts will ensure Cameron misses out on a huge chunk. Terrible timing.
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Jack Martin is not worth half of that
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Gee I was wrong on this one. I wasn't aware of the Mason Cox story. In fact, Mason was in a perfect storm too - courted by Bris and managing to leverage a more than adequate payday from the Pies. No wonder he gave up engineering...
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Geeze the saints are overpaying some of their players. Gonna come back to bite them
How much of that is because clubs are forced to pay 95-105% of TPP? How many players get overpaid just to enable clubs to hit that 95% minimum? It's +/- about $650,000 so not a lot of wriggle room.
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its difficult to justify paying the richmond players the same amount collectively as the adelaide players. I would argue that tex walker needs to pay the club at the moment. But the salary cap does more good than bad in the overall scheme of things
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Yeah, I'm a fan of the TPP salary cap and its role in balancing the league. I just think there should be more latitude to bank those underspend's rather than just re-balancing the ledger the following season. I still think the money we offered Wells and Mayne was TPP motivated rather than a reflection of relative worth.
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There were other factors in those two. Nearing a premiership and topping up with players that might help. The players association might argue against your suggestion
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Yeah, I'm not saying that we didn't target them, Mayne for suggested F50 pressure, Wells to replace Swanny, just that we paid overs and that that was as much about TPP as inducement.
