I wonder if being locked on a plane for 9 hours every second week is a contributing factor. If so, might see Freo Covid number heading north soon too.
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I wonder if being locked on a plane for 9 hours every second week is a contributing factor. If so, might see Freo Covid number heading north soon too.
I take it the same applies to the Richmond players who they were associating with?
It was different at some clubs but a very popular model was like $500 for a win and $100 for a loss. Of course in this professional world that is different now. but it does lead to a common question of why is the cap floor so high.
If the cap floor was dropped to like 70% we could drop what these guys are being paid to the level they are performing.
Only in sport you can get away with not performing and still get huge money. Normal work place it simply doesn't happen.
Anyway it is what it is.
Got to be getting close now
No one is going to know for certain, because they refuse to confirm who is missing due to actually having COVID, versus missing because they were isolating as a close contact.
At least a few players may have missed due to isolating, but could end up getting COVID later in the season.
And of course... plenty of people are getting it twice, so there's that to.
Nope, it will be totally Simmo's plan still and I am sure he will be on the phone with them for the entire game.
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Ryan and H.Edwards (pre-season)
Kelly and Bazzo (Rd 1)
Kennedy, Barrass, Waterman, Redden, Naitanui, Hough, Langdon, Rotham, Jones, Dixon, Winder, Hedwards again (Rd 2)
Shuey, Duggan, Rioli, Williams, Williams (rd 3)
Petch (rd 4)
McGovern (rd 5)
Jamieson (rd 6)
Foley (rd 7)
Nelson, Witherden, Clark, others (rd 8)
Probably missed some.
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Yes, but they are not our problem.
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Depends on the workplace, there’s plenty of examples of people getting paid good money to do **** all.
We’re going to be asked to re-elect a whole bunch of them in a couple of weeks time, just for a start.
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Had to walk to the ground too. In the snow! None of this bloody namby pamby “team bus” nonsense.Miguel we never got paid period in the old days and had to bring our own orangesfor half time.
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Does the hippie club still have sticky floors otherwise its a rare occasion nelson hadn’t slipped over for no reason
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Laugh, cry, bullet? what do you do?
We have quite literally been shagged from the inside out this year and we are only 7 rounds deep.
No team in the history of the AFL would of had such a compromised start to the season even including Essendon and their protein problems and Carlton with their spending spree.
Oh well at least we are going to get a few players back who play with vigour.
We have quite literally been shagged from the inside out this year and we are only 7 rounds deep.
No team in the history of the AFL would of had such a compromised start to the season even including Essendon and their protein problems and Carlton with their spending spree.
Oh well at least we are going to get a few players back who play with vigour.
I take comfort in the fact the Hip-E is still a thing
Was impressed with Knights presser. Was very direct and transparent.
Wish i went to the Hip-E Club last friday instead of letting Nesbitt blackmail me into going to the game and supporting those losers.
In those days, you also had chook raffles to help run the club.
There's no way the Players Association would agree to dropping the salary cap.
The guy struggled through his first 60m of footy in a year and a half.
It would be irresponsible to even consider playing Trew IMO. It is how underdone players get serious injuries stepping up to AFL level when they are not ready.
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The AFLPA can go f themselves…
A body set up to earn more with doing as little as possible…
Every player should have a guaranteed base payment with incentives for performance… soon figure out who wants to play for cash or for performance… some downhill skiers will quickly realise defence doesn’t just go around de house
Never going to happen.
The cap floor not the salary cap. It is insanity that the last placed team pays their players the same as the first placed team.
I agree, but it's never going to happen.
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Makes it difficult to plan out your salary cap if a huge chunk of your players salary is contingent on them doing particular things.
What performance markers do you set? If they’re straight stats, you’ll wind up with players trying to rack up stats to meet their contractual marks. If they’re subjective, you’ll wind up with arguments about whether teams have marked players down just to save cash.
And if players are offered an incentive-based contract at one club and a guaranteed contract at another, they’ll grab the sure thing more often than not, so clubs that don’t load up contracts with incentives will have a much easier time recruiting.
Apart from that, it’s a great idea.
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