SMH article about Manly’s shambolic salary cap situation

[Under the Sticks]

Jake will be on 1 million next year? What in the actual ****! He was never even close to a million dollar player. Tom sure but jurbo LOL a few weeks ago he made 29 meters in 5 runs over 80 minutes 🤣

It’s only because they couldn’t pay him $1m four years ago so they back ended it or so Dessie told me!

 

[double hoops]

$2.4 mil next year for Jake and Tom. Fu*k me drunk is this,club for real !!!!
2026 is going to be worse than 2025. What "Bozo" and I use that term loosely made that insane deal.

On a positive note, at least that's less than what the club will be paying the Shoe.

 

[Chip and Chase]

Can we read the article and comprehend it before we go off half cocked. The brothers are on big money next year because their contracts were BACKENDED. It says it there in black and white. That means instead of getting the same amount each year of their contract, they took less money in the initial years and the balance is made up in the final years. So instead of making outrageous claims about Jake being the highest paid forward in the game, use your head.

Whether backending contracts is a good thing or not is debatable, but it is a valid method of managing salary cap pressures.

 

[Dion Johnson]

The cap is 11,950,000 in 2026 and 97.5% (11,651,250) of that needs to be spent, hopefully the club can target some highly talented younger forwards as the journeyman approach strategy has been hit and miss.

Combination wise if they can land some talented edge forwards they can grow their games with Walsh and Large, would have liked the club to have shown interest in Ethan Robert’s but the Tigers got him.

Bishop Neale played extremely well for the Warriors in Harold Matt’s, if the club can’t get 19-22 year old players they may have to target the 17-19 year olds, there are a few of them.