craig r
Draftee
Haha nice forty one.
Haven't been on a KDL club committee for 5 years, but been trying to recruit players far and wide in that time and I believe the 70G being talked about for a side would be well off the mark. A budget of $2,000 a week including coach (normally comes in under $30,000 a year with injuries) was the norm in my time. Would agree with the Nagambie claim that they would be around the mark I just mentioned, some clubs may get up to the $50,000 but it would be a small minority.
As you can see from iwantanotherflag's maths, paying 25 blokes just gets you to $67,500, most clubs would have more than half there senior players playing for nothing each week. 10 paid players at a club would be the max surely!
Dollars are up to what they were 5 years ago, some clubs say they not paying lots of money but money that goes through gate plus made on day got to go somewhere not to many rich clubs around.Clubs are paying close to 70G ,Not many players local or not if there got some talent they after dollars