News Secrets of Chris Judd's pay packet revealed

[matt decat]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25124318-19742,00.html

Secrets of Chris Judd's pay packet revealed

• EXCLUSIVE: A JIGSAW puzzle is a key piece of Carlton superstar Chris Judd's lucrative contract with cardboard giant Visy.

The Herald Sun can reveal the list of obligations placed on Judd in his role as Visy's "environmental ambassador".
As well as the use of Judd's image on an environmental puzzle, his duties include providing green tips for the AFL footy record and appearing at Visy staff functions.
Cash payments from Visy to Judd - believed to total several hundred thousand dollars a year - come on top of his $1 million-a-season Carlton pay packet.
AFL chiefs have approved the arrangement.
Visy is owned by embattled billionaire and Blues powerbroker Dick Pratt.




Pratt, 74, stood down as Carlton president last year to face criminal charges that he lied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over price-fixing.
The Visy deal is believed to have been a deciding factor in Judd choosing Carlton after he left West Coast Eagles in 2007.
Both Carlton and Visy have refused to disclose the size of Judd's off-field payments.
"The exact details of his contract with Visy are confidential," company spokesman Tony Gray said.
"We are more than happy with the arrangement and believe Chris has delivered excellent value for us."
Mr Gray said Judd would be the face of Visy's school program to be launched on World Environment Day in June.
He would also host lectures for schoolchildren in the Visy Sustainable Living Centre to be opened at Princes Park.
Blues spokesman Ian Coutts said he knew nothing of the arrangement.
"I have no idea. It's completely separate to Carlton," he said.
Judd has previously defended the Visy contract.
"What I do for them is largely based around increasing awareness of recycling," he said last year.
"One of Visy's major pushes is the use of recycling as a tool against climate change. I have done a couple of talks for them . . . I'm pretty green."
Judd's long-time partner Rebecca Twigley, a model and part-time speech pathologist at The Alfred hospital, has emerged as one of Melbourne's A-list personalities.
Coutts denied suggestions a public relations firm had been hired to help Judd improve his own image.
"I don't know where that has come from. It would be a pleasure if all of our players were like Chris Judd," he said.
"He presents as well as anyone - on and off the football field."

seems like a pretty easy job, wonder if they have more of these positions available

 

[jonoman89]

More media speculation. What new points does this actually raise? It gives no evidence of what he's being paid.

 

[OZBomb]

seems like a pretty easy job, wonder if they have more of these positions available

If you're one of the best footballers in the country, I'm sure they'd find something.

Much of our promotional budget has been moved from Fevola to Judd.

 

[XXX KINGS]

Think of all the publicity VISY have been gaining off of Judd.

The AFL wouldn't have approved this if it didn't represent fair value on VISY's behalf, a hell of a lot more people are speaking about the company since Judd arrived at Carlton than beforehand and his role is to be an ambassador for them.

This is fair game imo, just like a model gets paid good coin to be an ambassador for fashion week or a celebrity like Paris Hilton gets paid huge money to come stand around in a marquee at the Spring Carnival.

 

[Faz 2000]

Yawn.

I want more articles on what AFL footballers get paid for other than football. It makes me feel great about my salary.

 

[The_Groscz]

This is just dirty Murdoch Sumbaggery.

Everyone forgets what a rabid ANTI-SEMITE Murdoch's father was, and it runs like a filthy smell in his empire, the attacks aimed at Pratt through the back door.

Add to that their anti-green stance, those dirty filth in Murdoch's empire will do any below the belt punch to graft sensation and a buck!

The Herald-Sun's footy reporting has deteriorated somewhat in the last few years, and anyone with a footy brain knows that. They just go for bullshit sensation and muck-racking, reducing the game into a lousy soap-opera, rather than talk about the Semantics of the game itself.

Murdoch is just jealous Pratt makes money out of all his thrown-out newspapers and copies of Mx!

 

[Warsaw]

No one else would but I find it amusing that this is probably the most discussed news topic on BF today yet the least on here.

 

[Bronx Bomber]

No one else would but I find it amusing that this is probably the most discussed news topic on BF today yet the least on here.

That's because it features two topics that the users of BigFooty are just obsessed with - Carlton and Juddy.

 

[OZBomb]

This article is purely an attempt to fuel the ignorant who will use this story to point to Carlton cheating the salary cap. I guarentee a Collingwood or Richmond fan calls SEN today talking about us cheating the salary cap with this, completely ignoring the fact that it is approved by the AFL as part of our promotional budget that every club has.

 

[Faz 2000]

This article is purely an attempt to fuel the ignorant who will use this story to point to Carlton cheating the salary cap. I guarentee a Collingwood or Richmond fan calls SEN today talking about us cheating the salary cap with this, completely ignoring the fact that it is approved by the AFL as part of our promotional budget that every club has.

Richmond would be wise not to heave stones around their rather glass-like house at the moment, with those articles circulating about property deals.

And the Pies wouldn't want to either. All that great work Dids and Heath do for the TAC...

 

[thylacine60]

That's because it features two topics that the users of BigFooty are just obsessed with - Carlton and Juddy.

Has anyone else noticed how Cuddy and Jarlton are starting to merge into the same word?

 

[HBF]

Does anyone really care about this? Visy have come out and said that the details are confidential, as they should be. How would that journo who wrote that like their salary published for everybody to see.

Move on......

 

[gbatman]

So he has a job outside footy... ok then.

 

[Gezza125]

Slow news day... yawn.

 

[Will.B.Worth.Da.Waite]

LMAO that is a ridiculous title for the article. It doesn't even mention one "secret" of Juddy's pay packet. What an absolute joke. It is an article about sh*t f**k all really