Early last week The Advertiser reported that Lukosius was on 1M plus. If we pay him 800k he would be taking a substantial pay cut. Lukosius is a useful player but he is overrated and not worth 1M a year. I would sooner hang on to Dan Houston.
You are right we all complain about mediocrity yet want to take B+ players in the hope they will suddenly become something they are not. Lukosius is a useful player but he is far from a match winning forward. In fact he is that good as a forward that Gold Coast have played him in defence for a good proportion of his career.
We reportedly put a price of two first round picks on Dan Houston's head earlier this year and we should stick to it.
1. salary reporting is notoriously unreliable
2. it was consistently said that it was a largely backended contract , which mean even if he was on 1m ( I saw 900k elsewhere?) it was really a 800k contract, or whatever.
if someone was on 650k, 650, 750, 950 for example they were not on 950 k.