It's not the worst situation to be in as a club if your high payed recruits are playing in the reserves. All the players that continue from last year will be 1 point less so that opens up a bit of a budget to add a few more players, and if that pushes some into the reserves that's a good thing as a club. Salary Cap is about $550 per player, surely EK bottom 5-8 players would be on a lot less than that.There is not a chance in hell they will be able to fit there best 22 under the points cap next year, not even close which was pretty much the case this year also. How are players that know they should be playing seniors going to deal with being rotated through the two’s? What happens come finals time. It’s bizarre to say the least. As for the salary cap well that’s another story.
Are the these recruits being given jobs or something? What ROI are you wanting when giving a B-Grade Footballer $15k in Oct? I know numbers always get made up on here, and I don't believe 95% of the figures.15k sign on to one of their new recruits.
Where would EK be getting their money from?