Victoria Giants pay structure?

[Squeak]

At half-time in last night's game, they had a story with Peter Fiddes, owner of the Giants, and he said they were paying only $500,000 in wages this season. I played around with the numbers and came up with this:

85000 - Jamahl Mosley
85000 - Darryl McDonald
60000 - Darren Smith
50000 - Dusty Rychart
50000 - Nathan Crosswell
40000 - David Biwer
30000 - David Cooper
30000 - Nik Mirich
20000 - Miles Pearce
20000 - Marcus Wright
15000 - John Crofts
15000 - Rhys Carter

Thoughts?

 

[Bulldog1954]

D-Mac should get more, he's easily their best player.

Darren Smith should get less, seriously how the hell is he co-captain??? Is it just to keep ex Titans fans???

 

[Squeak]

Originally posted by Bulldog1954


Darren Smith should get less, seriously how the hell is he co-captain??? Is it just to keep ex Titans fans???

I think so. I reckon he should be on less too, but I concluded that he must be on a bit if he's co-captain.

 

[naughty monkey]

Originally posted by Squeak
At half-time in last night's game, they had a story with Peter Fiddes, owner of the Giants, and he said they were paying only $500,000 in wages this season. I played around with the numbers and came up with this:

85000 - Jamahl Mosley
85000 - Darryl McDonald
60000 - Darren Smith
50000 - Dusty Rychart
50000 - Nathan Crosswell
40000 - David Biwer
30000 - David Cooper
30000 - Nik Mirich
20000 - Miles Pearce
20000 - Marcus Wright
15000 - John Crofts
15000 - Rhys Carter

Thoughts?

Isn't there a min salary for each player? Would have thought 15k was too low.
(Cap is $1.05million?)

 

[Squeak]

Re: Re: Victoria Giants pay structure?

Originally posted by naughty monkey



Isn't there a min salary for each player? Would have thought 15k was too low.
(Cap is $1.05million?)

There is a cap, but Fiddes has decided to pay way below it, believing that the money is better spent giving sponsors value for their dollars.

Not sure about a minimum wage, they are virtually employed for 8 months of the year, and can hold down other employment.

 

[Bulldog1954]

There is a cap, but in theory only.

It is common knowledge that half the sides cheat it, the kings have been believed to be over twice the cap in past years. Even last year the Titans were paying 1.6 million. And if sides like the 6'ers and Wildcats aren't over it I'd be surprised, its also amazing how we have managed to bring in the leagues best player with no mention of the salary cap.

 

[King Crow]

And to think the NBA salary cap is just above $42 million US

 

[naughty monkey]

Originally posted by Bulldog1954
There is a cap, but in theory only.

It is common knowledge that half the sides cheat it, the kings have been believed to be over twice the cap in past years. Even last year the Titans were paying 1.6 million. And if sides like the 6'ers and Wildcats aren't over it I'd be surprised, its also amazing how we have managed to bring in the leagues best player with no mention of the salary cap.

Trivia Question:- How many times have the 6ers and Wildcats been audited by the league?????

 

[Marissa16]

Originally posted by Bulldog1954
D-Mac should get more, he's easily their best player.

Darren Smith should get less, seriously how the hell is he co-captain??? Is it just to keep ex Titans fans???

At the moment, D-Mac is not easily our best player. And Darren Smith does deserve what he gets, he is an awesome player, he just hasn't got his form at the moment! You don't know anything!

 

[Bulldog1954]

Originally posted by Marissa16


At the moment, D-Mac is not easily our best player. And Darren Smith does deserve what he gets, he is an awesome player, he just hasn't got his form at the moment! You don't know anything!

Maybe not at the moment, but when fully fit and without OP D-Mac is your best player, he has done far more then anyone at the Giants. And what did he get the other day, 15 assists???

And Darren Smith is good at defence, attacking wise he is awful. What does he average 6 points maybe. How he is co-captain is a disgrace, he would not start for more then 2-3 teams and at the moment isn't starting at the Giants. He isn't good enough to tie the other captains laces

In this thread it was suggested that Smith would get more then Rychart, do you agree with that??? I mean Nathan Crosswell is better then Smith for christs sake, as is Dave Biwer

You don't know anything

 

[ant]

Originally posted by naughty monkey


Trivia Question:- How many times have the 6ers and Wildcats been audited by the league?????

I think the Sixers get audited every year, or have done for many seasons now after we went over the salary cap a few years ago, IIRC

 

[naughty monkey]

Originally posted by ant


I think the Sixers get audited every year, or have done for many seasons now after we went over the salary cap a few years ago, IIRC

Exactly!!!!!
The last time we were busted it was for $35000 and the sixers were fined $70000. It was to do with the 6er's paying players $2-3K for conducting coaching clinics etc and how many of these appearances were to be counted toward the cap. Sixers were adamant they had done nothing wrong (they had documentation showing they were cleared by the NBL earlier in the year when they queried the rules) but decided they would spend more in legal fees than just paying the fine.

All that is beside the point though, I recall an interview with Bernie Lewis (6er's boss) at the time who said that the NBL only ever audited two teams a year for the last 11 years. The sixers had been of those two teams EVERY SINGLE YEAR. He also said that the Wildcats and the Kings had never been audited. GRRRRRRR!