Speculation Sam de Koning [OOC 2025]

[WalshistheGOAT]

How will you afford him?
Have you checked your salary cap lately. It's epic.
Knowing the Blues, they'll likely get Houston in on a 5 million dollar deal to push that cap to the brink.

Williams, Mcgovern, Newman, Docherty, Saad and Hewett all OOC end of 2025. That will be atleast a few million cleared if we needed.

We're also more likely to be hitting the draft this year than Houston. We'll have plenty of coin to throw around given our top 5-6 all took pay cuts in their pact to stick together until they hopefully win a flag.

 

[My Tilly]

Williams, Mcgovern, Newman, Docherty, Saad and Hewett all OOC end of 2025. That will be atleast a few million cleared if we needed.

We're also more likely to be hitting the draft this year than Houston. He's not a positional need for us where as a KPD is.

I thought you signed up Williams to a ludicrous long term deal

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

I thought you signed up Williams to a ludicrous long term deal

Oh sorry, he'll be OOC in 2026. Not to worry though, when he's OOC he'll clear 800k or so.

Our cap will be just fine going forward, plenty of space for SDK coming up.

 

[sexyhunk]

Williams, Mcgovern, Newman, Docherty, Saad and Hewett all OOC end of 2025. That will be atleast a few million cleared if we needed.

We're also more likely to be hitting the draft this year than Houston. We'll have plenty of coin to throw around given our top 5-6 all took pay cuts in their pact to stick together until they hopefully win a flag.

yep getting rid of those guys will allow you to extend jacob weitring and your so call highest value player in TDK both contract ending 2025.

so question remain where the cap space coming from for SDK.

but I will acknowledge now brain cook is at the helm, he wont be spending the entire cap on 6 guys like carlton have in the past. one of the best operator around.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

yep getting rid of those guys will allow you to extend jacob weitring and your so call highest value player in TDK both contract ending 2025.

so question remain where the cap space coming from for SDK.

but I will acknowledge now brain cook is at the helm, he wont be spending the entire cap on 6 guys like carlton have in the past. one of the best operator around.

Both those players will be due for moderate pay rises but we'll have a hell of a lot more $$ coming off our books. Will have plenty of cap space to play with if we don't pick up Houston which from all reports we won't be.

 

[sexyhunk]

Both those players will be due for moderate pay rises but we'll have a hell of a lot more $$ coming off our books. Will have plenty of cap space to play with if we don't pick up Houston which from all reports we won't be.

it was widely reported TDK took less money to prove himself to get to FA. he pdid exactly that this year so the pay rise wont be moderate, otherwise that defeats the purpose of taking less to get to FA. plenty of offers be coming in from multiple clubs.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

it was widely reported TDK took less money to prove himself to get to FA. he pdid exactly that this year so the pay rise wont be moderate, otherwise that defeats the purpose of taking less to get to FA. plenty of offers be coming in from multiple clubs.

TDK is already on good money but turned down monster deals from other clubs. He won't be getting a 1million dollar pay rise or something though. Blues have plenty of pieces we can move on if we needed cap space for SDK after signing Weitering and TDK.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Lmao Sam similar ability to TDK in the ruck??

You guys had TDK on the scrapheap at the same age