Daniel said:
1 million over 3 seasons is overs for a player who has no fixed position yet and who has only played a handful of games. I mean he has talent but this is ridiculous.
The media is going to be responsible for clubs going under. They talk up players and inflate their prices. Sons clubs pay overs for them and then we have a handful of players taking up the lion share of clubs cap.
We can't just increase the cap because clubs can't afford to meet the cap.
I think I might knock up an article on this
I don't understand your complaint about the media talking up the players. Isn't that exactly what we want the media to do? Use them to help promote the game?
I also think you are overdoing the impact they have on what the clubs pay for them. Just because a report says player X is being offered Y amount from a club doesn't mean another club is automatically going to Y+$ to land him.
Blowfly said:
While I'm confident of Hoppa staying at Manly I must get this off my chest.
I am getting more and more angry at how the Bulldogs continue to sign players and not be mentioned as having salary cap issues.
Pritchard, Tolman, Graham, Hodkinson, Keating, Millington, Eastwood, Morris, Ennis, Goodwin, Turner, Stagg, Halatau, Paea, Wright, Lett, Tia-Kalifi, Payne, Romelo all came from other clubs in the past three years.
They've also upgraded contracts for Barba, Ennis, Morris, Stagg, Payne and others in this time.
I realise they lost Kimmorley, Hannant, Patten and Idris (rookie contract) in this time but they're now also linked with Will Chambers, Joel Reddy and now have a lazy mill to throw at Hoppa.
They have form on the board in regards to rorting the system and that snivelling Gallop puppet Greenberg can't be trusted.
Then in a media release boasting their win in the Harold Matthews the club trumpet how they have great juniors!!! WELL how about using them sometime then?
That is all...
Alot of those players the dogs have signed aren't on any decent money. It would be like supporters claiming we have gone over the cap because we've signed Gaulavo, Robinson, Harrison, Cross, Bailey, Williams, Seu Seu & Rodney. They offered Hodkinson a lot more than we did, but he would still be one of the lowest paid no 7s in the NRL.
Also a lot of those players you've mentioned aren't even first grade regulars and for them to earn the full amount of their contracts would mean they'd have to play a certain amount of games in first grade. And most of them aren't going to get there.
If we don't have the money to sign hoppa then a lot of if it is our own fault. We were in pole position to tie him up long term. No other club had the intell on his ability more than us and to be honest, we should have signed him before a ball was kicked this year. We were always going to face competition for his signature, the only thing his form has done this year is other clubs are willing to open their chequebooks more than they did before.
We might be spending the cap but if other clubs have a greater pool of third party deals (only a small percentage of which can be club guaranteed), then its something our management team need to be working on. I'm sure this is part of the brief of our new COO to expand those commercial opportunities.