Review Winners and losers - trade week 2024

[Tonythetiger]

You should lower your expectations, there's no world where the AFL will let a team pay under the cap floor to their own players, so the maximum potential is limited.

I'm sure we meet the cap floor, but let's say we have reached that and prepaid guys like Balta and Taranto a big chunk of their salaries and have one year where we are just paying the floor and want to purchase the best pick we can. There's talk of trading salary cap for picks too. Although this is a problem it would be better not to have. If a few of our draftees are looking good and want to commit long term, it might be better spent doing a few front loaded contracts instead.

 

[Profop]

You should lower your expectations, there's no world where the AFL will let a team pay under the cap floor to their own players, so the maximum potential is limited.

Isn’t the cap floor 92% or something close to that?

If we were to sell the remaining 8% for picks it is interesting what that would deliver

Bowes contract wouldn’t have been anywhere near 8% of the Suns salary cap and they gave up a top ten pick to remove that from their books

 

[Dr Tigris]

Isn’t the cap floor 92% or something close to that?

If we were to sell the remaining 8% for picks it is interesting what that would deliver

Bowes contract wouldn’t have been anywhere near 8% of the Suns salary cap and they gave up a top ten pick to remove that from their books

8% of the salary cap would get you a pretty good trae I would think.

 

[jackenny]

With Tasmania coming into the comp, I really like how aggressively Tigers are loading up on the draft beforehand. If they do the same next year, major props.

 

[BennyGan]

With Tasmania coming into the comp, I really like how aggressively Tigers are loading up on the draft beforehand. If they do the same next year, major props.

not sure what players they have left to offload now to do the same, unless you mean maybe trading out some of these later picks for future firsts

 

[jackenny]

not sure what players they have left to offload now to do the same, unless you mean maybe trading out some of these later picks for future firsts

That’s my thought. Being able to trade excess draft picks this year for future ones next year. Especially if they can turn single draft picks into multiples.

 

[BennyGan]

That’s my thought. Being able to trade excess draft picks this year for future ones next year. Especially if they can turn single draft picks into multiples.

if i were the tigers i'd be aiming to get at least two extra firsts for next year from the current hand they have

 

[THE_GUN]

Id be pretty confident we will trade 2 later picks for future 1st rounders that will give Richmond 3 x 1st rounders play 1st pick of the 2nd round.

Meeting the cap floor is no issue with
Taranto x 5 years $700k
Hopper x 5 years $700k
Balta x 7 years $1,000,000
Short x 3 years $600k
Broad x 2 years $500k

Thats $15,000,000 just there on 5 players that you can front load 60% just in 2025

 

[Hamingja]

If a few of our draftees are looking good and want to commit long term, it might be better spent doing a few front loaded contracts instead.

I reckon this is a big trap with the minimum cap. North have had talented young players like Thomas and Zurhaar not develop to their potential because they get a guaranteed game and big $$$ right out of the gate on potential because they have to pay someone. There ends up little incentive for those guys to really push themselves to get better. As soon as their original draft contracts expire they get $500k+. Flip side is someone like Dempsey at Geelong who would have been on a base of like $200k coming into his third year this year who needs to bust his arse to get a game and stay in the side and then actually has to earn that sort of contract. Minimum cap is a massive scourge for poor teams.

 

[HavUEvaSeenTheRain]

I reckon this is a big trap with the minimum cap. North have had talented young players like Thomas and Zurhaar not develop to their potential because they get a guaranteed game and big $$$ right out of the gate on potential because they have to pay someone. There ends up little incentive for those guys to really push themselves to get better. As soon as their original draft contracts expire they get $500k+. Flip side is someone like Dempsey at Geelong who would have been on a base of like $200k coming into his third year this year who needs to bust his arse to get a game and stay in the side and then actually has to earn that sort of contract. Minimum cap is a massive scourge for poor teams.

i get what you are saying but I don’t think those two players are good examples. Zurhaar broke out in his 3rd year then got paid which you have to do. Thomas always looked a freak and was always getting paid by someone.
Dempsey will now get huge long term offers after his third year, a lot more than Zurhaar for example. (Which he deserves but it’s the same thing)