these things are nowhere near mutually exclusive.
Eade was the wrong fit and they’re also an ordinary organisation.
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But he is bang average and the media make him out to be a more than good coach.
Solomon has harmed his future head coach career aspirations, with his negative performance, as the Sun’s interim coach.
Meanwhile Tassie doesn’t have a team.
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Possibly,
I think he has to move somewhere else now, else he becomes part of the problem rather than stuck in a difficult job.
If he was smart he would go to Hawks, being under Clarkson is the best CV item you can have for a aspiring senior coach right now.
Cocharane should either demand a second round pick (Which is Geelong’s first pick in the draft from memory and they will never give it up) or demand that Ablett pay back the portion of next seasons contract that has already been paid and let him go for a late draft pick. Would take away the high moral ground that Ablett and Geelong will try to play.
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Barrett on radio basically saying GC starting point will be, get a lesser player back and Cats pay the salary of that player.
Be it coming direct from Geelong or via 3rd club trade
This is due to fact GC has front loaded Abletts salary (and would have only been on $600k next year)
They want compensation for that outlay.
With Cats already tight for salary cap and with Smith, Hopper and co in sights surely can’t get it done. Although salary cap increase perhaps does give them room.
Well I guess they should have back-ended his contract instead.
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They wanted compensation for Jaegar too and…
You know your season was bad when the guy who won your B&F only played 14 games and doesn’t even want to be there.
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Sounds like they’re trying to increase his trade value by giving him an award.
Doubt they’d get much more than a pick in the 30s for him.
Agree. But Geelong might get sucked into giving up more than that. We shall see.
EDIT: May be worth going overs for Geelong. Can you imagine the Geelong public if they got him back? Would be enormous and the boost in membership and exposure would be worth a bit more than others are willing to give up. Not that he’d go anywhere else anyway.
Underlined comment is both a failure of basic math as well as emotive revisionism.
When GCS & GWS entered the comp, their lists were very roughly 2/3rds draftee kids, and 1/3rd experienced players. The draftee kids get paid very little (on their first contract), but GCS and GWS had to spend a minimum portion of their cap somehow. How did they achieve this? They paid front-loaded contracts to their experienced players. Basic math. As this article states: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/western-sydney/gws-dangles-huge-bait-to-snare-stars-20110306-1bjlc.html:
“GWS will have an extremely young list when it enters the competition, making it not only possible but preferable for it to offer front-loaded contracts”
So yeah, i think you’ll find many of the experienced players who went to the two expansion clubs got front-loaded contracts. Nothing unique at all about Ablett getting one.
Man there’s a lot of bitter people in here.
True for his initial contract of 5 years but what about his extension?
In 2015 he signed a new 3 year deal that was heavily front loaded and now he wants to skip after taking the money in the initial 2 years and leaving with a year to go.
His contract was worth approx $1.1m a year for the first 2 years and about $400k for 2018.
Have no problem with front loaded contracts if you see out the term as he did in his initial contract but if you don’t see out the term as he won’t now you are effectively stealing money
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Yeah, and so? If you’re right that the deal was 1.1 + 1.1 + 0.4, that means he earned an average of $870k per year. He signed that deal after the 2014 season, when he was still one of the best players in the game - in 2014 he played only 15 games but polled 22 Brownlow votes, won GCS’ B&F, and was an All Australian. You reckon he hadn’t earned that $870k per year based on form? And who the hell else were GCS supposed to be paying money to? Their list was just as terrible then as it is now.
If you demand a front loaded contract you have to be prepared to see it out. Bet if it was a back ended contract he wouldn’t be so keen to get out of it! I hope the Suns hold out and either make him retire or the Cats send a player up there and pay his wage for a year
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Lol was he even there to accept the award?
You make it sound as though he literally held GCS to gun point and forced them to sign his front-loaded contract. This ignores the reality of the situation, which is that GCS has to pay a minimum portion of its cap (just like every other club), and they had very few players in 2015 worth paying decent money to outside of GAJ (and they still don’t have many good players who deserve a big contract).
Back-ending GAJ’s 2015 extension would have been completely stupid from both GCS and GAJ’s standpoint. Stupid from GCS’ standpoint because the expectation at the time in 2015 was that they needed to keep space in their cap in the future for when their young players - who at the time were earning little - blossomed into good experienced players, and thus would demand big pay increases. And obviously stupid from GAJ’s standpoint as the general idea is pay mimics form in 2015, and it wouldn’t make sense to earn under-market while still in career best form, while earning way above-market on the cusp of retirement in 2018.
In any event, based on some cursory Googling, i’m not even sure if your 1.1 + 1.1 + 0.4 is correct - this article states he’s due to be paid ~$700k in 2018: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/gary-ablett-set-for-significant-pay-decrease-at-the-end-of-the-season/news-story/845345595203730483bb69734bb36ae2.
He actually did hold them to gunpoint as it was at his demand not the clubs for the extension to be front loaded. He was willing to leave the club in 2015 if they weren’t prepared to agree to those terms. As for the figure who knows, I’ve heard about 4 different figures so the truth is probably somewhere in the middle