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Game Day 2024 Trade Period
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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 $$ in this deal
Is their cap that bad that they are still paying off players?
Surely we are getting some $$ in this deal
That’s very witty Liam
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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.
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This'll be a Christmas gift I reckon.
He will sign on straight after his 100 100m runs
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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?
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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.
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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.
Id think we'd be lucky if they were looking at Sturt. It'll be one of our other two 'good' forwards Sydney would want.
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I absolutely think that’s what we’ve done, it’s why we sign our stars after trade and draft but before the start of a new year, we load up the first year of the deal and flatten out years 2-5. Plus I don’t think we are paying full market value for some of our younger players, Amiss and Treacy I don’t think are on anything like the “Star” KPFs of the comp, throw a 3mil contract in front of a 21yo and see if they say no, that could be only 600x5 but for Treacy who we were actively looking for an upgrade for at the start of the year, that’s a great deal.
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I think andy will definitely sign.
The key question is for how much.
$1m a year?
$1.1m a year?
Would be good value but I think it’ll be a lot more than $1m a year to get his signature.
If the saints offer him 7 years at $1.5, we will need to pay him $1.3 a year at least to sign.
He might be passionate freo but he’s not a charity either, and if he signs a 6 year deal he isn’t leaving $3m on the table just because he’s a good bloke and wants to keep freo fans happy.
His manager will be quite rightly using other teams offers to crowbar more money out of Freo.
The key question is for how much.
$1m a year?
$1.1m a year?
Would be good value but I think it’ll be a lot more than $1m a year to get his signature.
If the saints offer him 7 years at $1.5, we will need to pay him $1.3 a year at least to sign.
He might be passionate freo but he’s not a charity either, and if he signs a 6 year deal he isn’t leaving $3m on the table just because he’s a good bloke and wants to keep freo fans happy.
His manager will be quite rightly using other teams offers to crowbar more money out of Freo.
If we're talking Sydney's immediate needs, and a straight swap, it's him or Treacy, and to me Treacy is the more important player to us.
I am keeping Amiss and Treacy over Warner. KPF who are young and both have shown they can kick goals. Warner can go kick rocks or go Eagles.
18, F1 and Erasmus is good enough for Warner. Throw in Sturt if need be.
18, F1 and Erasmus is good enough for Warner. Throw in Sturt if need be.
Or Brisbane already did it (Daniher).
To keep everyone together, we need everyone on 1 million or under.
This is a concern with Bolton who is reportedly on more.
Anyone know if his deal has salary increases built in if salary cap goes up.
If your Sydney no way you're taking that deal for warner
What exactly is he supposed to say? The entire trade period is posturing..
English not a first language because those things are the same like Beyoncé and Fat Bastard?
They’re going to lose Baker, Graham, Rioli and a bunch that have retired. They’re not keeping Bolton just because.
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