They don’t, actually. That’s terrible cap management.
Need more Luke Hodge’s “injured” yet play out of their skins
Well yeah, they do, actually.
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You don’t have to spend you’re whole cap. Locking players into bigger contracts than they deserve because “somebody has to get it” is not good use. Front load some payments to guys like Merritt who deserve it if you want to, but don’t over pay players just because.
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The floor is 95% of the cap. That needs to be paid to someone.
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that is why we shouldn’t follow or continue on the path of doing it and figure out how geelong does it.
other than bowes, are they paying anyone way overs just to meet the minimum salary cap spend ?
redman isn’t worth the purported money. If adelaide want to pay him, and rankine and all the others that sort of cash, let them go down that path, and as you so poetically pointed out see how they go when they potentially have a bunch of polecs, or how carlton has faired with their over buying of players.
if you need to meet the minimum spend,
pay merrett more money
potentially pay wright more money
pay langford more
pay players who HAVE EARNT it, higher wages, and if guys like redman want that sort of money, they have to delivery performances on a regular basis to justify it, and not a purely numbers and flashy stuff, the hard stuff that goes unnoticed, the working hard defensively, the setting up of the team, taking on more responsibilities on game day.
It has changed now, more flexible.
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Only by a year hasnt it?
You can be below the floor for a season, but the total minimum has to be paid over 3 years or some such
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That’s not true. Toy can only roll 5% into the following season, you lose the rest. Doesn’t mean you should lock players into contracts they don’t deserve.
Dodo drafts so few good, competitive players that I just don’t think it makes sense to lose him.
Say we get a first round compensation for him …… what is Dodo going to do with that?
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Yeah something like that.
Id like to think we have been front ending the ■■■■ out of our cap for years.
What does Maynard earn? Redman should be about 80% of that if we got really generous.
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Draft a 197cm 72kg key position toothpick who will need 3-4 years of development, which will all be ■■■■■■ down the drain with constant leg injuries, back stress fractures, throw in some OP…
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I know they changed it so you can bank if you spend under 100%, but I can’t find anything that says you can spend under the floor of 95%. I know for sure north had to have a fundraiser in 2013 just so they could reach the salary floor.
If anyone has anything to the contrary, it would be much appreciated, I do like to know this boring ■■■■.
Edit: just adding this because it’s funny
The $800,000 raised by North Melbourne at a special fund-raiser will enable the Roos to pay the minimum salary cap required under the AFL rules this year.
The Kangaroos raised the funds at a function for wealthy backers at Parliament House, when AFL legend Leigh Matthews spoke - along with coach Brad Scott and other key North officials.
The club has confirmed that some of the money raised will be used to bring its total player payments up to the minimum of 95 per cent of the 2013 salary cap of $9.14 million.
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I agree with this, but I’m not convinced it’s where the industry is at post free agency.
Does anyone realise Rob Forster Knight is the one who has the main say on who we draft. Dodo is literally just the deal guy not the one who is finding the talent in the first place
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That’s a relief. We’ll need a new scapegoat when Jackets is gone.
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He will be polluted by Dodoro thinking. He’s a Trojan horse. We need a complete break from the current regime as it relates to list management.
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Sure. The GM of List and Recruiting doesn’t have final say on our drafting.
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Dodo is literally the General Manager of recruitment. He is RFK’s direct boss & so has direct input into each & every recruitment decision.
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