Game Day 2024 Trade Period

[King Huskii]

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One of the better comments!

 

[freo_leo29]

There has been 0 noise in the media about Richmond paying Bolton's contract right?

Is their cap that bad that they are still paying off players?


Surely we are getting some $$ in this deal

 

[Fred Ziffel]

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One of the better comments!

That’s very witty Liam

 

[CaseySibosadoHOF]

There has been 0 noise in the media about Richmond paying Bolton's contract right?

Is their cap that bad that they are still paying off players?


Surely we are getting some $$ in this deal

Lack of reporting probably means at the very least it's not a massive factor.

We're not privy to cap details, so this is guesswork. But if significant salary isn't involved, I think it's more likely that's because we're fine with paying Shai's deal. Being spread over 5 years so maybe slightly less per year, maybe he's not on quite the money that people were speculating, cap raise, the fact we've already sorted a lot of our deals, all of that might play into that. But bottom line may be that we need to preserve assets more than we need to preserve cap room at the moment.

 

[Hamann188]

This'll be a Christmas gift I reckon.

 

[dxlr8]

This'll be a Christmas gift I reckon.

He will sign on straight after his 100 100m runs

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

He's just waiting to see what we can do in trade week so Freo can work around whoever we bring in with the finer details. Front loading back ending etc. Andy and Caleb want our first premiership as bad as anyone. Lucky to have these guys.

 

[ilikepotatoes]

He's just waiting to see what we can do in trade week so Freo can work around whoever we bring in with the finer details. Front loading back ending etc. Andy and Caleb want our first premiership as bad as anyone. Lucky to have these guys.

On that note is there anything stopping a club from pulling a contract like that baseballer who's gonna get paid most of his contract in 10 years time?

Obviously salary cap is an issue but what's to stop a club giving a player a 15-20 year contract and paying them minum salary for 10 years when they expect to contend then a few mil a year for 5 and placing them on the inactive list with knee OA or something every player in the sport would have?

 

[gaskin]

On that note is there anything stopping a club from pulling a contract like that baseballer who's gonna get paid most of his contract in 10 years time?

Obviously salary cap is an issue but what's to stop a club giving a player a 15-20 year contract and paying them minum salary for 10 years when they expect to contend then a few mil a year for 5 and placing them on the inactive list with knee OA or something every player in the sport would have?

The AFL has to tick off all contracts. That is obviously rorting the system and the league won't allow it.

 

[ilikepotatoes]

The AFL has to tick off all contracts. That is obviously rorting the system and the league won't allow it.

Until Carlton do it.

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

On that note is there anything stopping a club from pulling a contract like that baseballer who's gonna get paid most of his contract in 10 years time?

Obviously salary cap is an issue but what's to stop a club giving a player a 15-20 year contract and paying them minum salary for 10 years when they expect to contend then a few mil a year for 5 and placing them on the inactive list with knee OA or something every player in the sport would have?

It's possible the club has already done something along those lines. Signed a lot of our guys to long term deals the last few years. Could we have payed let's just say Young for example a huge chunk of his contract in the first year of the deal to free up cap space down the line? We've been rebuilding for a long while and we keep hearing in the media that we have heaps of cap space.