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Ashman23
Club Legend
With all due respect, I'm not sure why anyone of us should be bothered about what a player is getting paid.
I trust the club to do what it has been doing in building the list.
For such a long time, we'd supposedly missed on many free agents as we had our 'salary structure' and were rigid. It gets reported/discussed in the AFL media that to pry someone out of a club, you 'have to pay overs'.
For me, it's 'Is player X a best 22 player at Hawthorn in 2025', if the answer is 'yes', then I trust the club to do their job and get them in.
I trust the club to do what it has been doing in building the list.
For such a long time, we'd supposedly missed on many free agents as we had our 'salary structure' and were rigid. It gets reported/discussed in the AFL media that to pry someone out of a club, you 'have to pay overs'.
For me, it's 'Is player X a best 22 player at Hawthorn in 2025', if the answer is 'yes', then I trust the club to do their job and get them in.