To clear things up this is how it works.
The club selects a top 30 roster with the minimum wage being 100k.They then select 5 development players who earn a maximum 60k a year.
The club must submit 29 names initially before March with the final one to be submitted no later than June. Due to salary cap problem we have been allowed to only submit 28 at this stage.
For a development player outside the top 30 to play we must show to the salary cap auditor that we have no one able to play in that position.
So basically to fill our final two spots we need to
1. Buy two new players from outside the club with money left under the cap as of today.
2. Promote development players if we can prove we have no one to play that position.
3. Upgrade the contract of any player within the club to NRL status with a 100k minimum contract while staying under the cap.
Finally guys who have left the club like Lussick and Myles remain as being counted in our top 30 as they are being paid( in Lussick case he has been paid enough before he left to still be counted )
Hope that helps
Minimum wage is 70k for players 30-26 of the roster and 100k for players 25-1.
There are actually 6 development players on 60k.
Therefore it’s only 10k to upgrade a development player. And it isn’t compulsory to then fill that development position.
We have the $ after releasing Lussick to make external purchases at around 100k (which given we are half way through the season is equivalent to a 200k player) so unless you are convinced a development player is streets ahead of what is available then there isn’t a great reason to upgrade.
We have been negotiating we 2 external players, although now given the injury issues and the fact that a player getting released from their current club and then registered takes time we may deviate from that plan.
