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.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

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.

Which faith does the bishop belong to?

Names today…the idiocracy awaits.

 

[Dion Johnson]

Which faith does the bishop belong to?

Names today…the idiocracy awaits.

The tackle busting faith..😉😉

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

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.

You have to be prepared to spend an awful lot of money if your strategy is signing the top kids and bringing them through your junior sides.
As we have seen at Manly, they can be long gone before they become first graders and all that money was for...? eg Fainus
A club such as Roosters can afford to buy highly touted kids in bulk, if some never make it they don't even mind, because money is almost a bottomless pit for them.

 

[nightster]

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.

Bishop Neale

 

[The '47ers]

Which faith does the bishop belong to?

Names today…the idiocracy awaits.

Especially with the last name Neale.
Kneeling around bishops never ends well

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Especially with the last name Neale.
Kneeling around bishops never ends well

Haha, yes!

Just ask the Donald. Or in his case, it was the ‘Cardinal of the Kremlin’:

 

[Dion Johnson]

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Bishop Neale

Looks like some good negotiation skills are required to get him out of that deal 😂, the Warriors are stacked with edge forwards.

 

[Dion Johnson]

You have to be prepared to spend an awful lot of money if your strategy is signing the top kids and bringing them through your junior sides.
As we have seen at Manly, they can be long gone before they become first graders and all that money was for...? eg Fainus
A club such as Roosters can afford to buy highly touted kids in bulk, if some never make it they don't even mind, because money is almost a bottomless pit for them.

The Rorters are the pinnacle for sure with the academy and how they get the best talent.

Though the Raiders have done a job in getting the next available best to their club and developing them and getting good reward for that this season.

There is some pain in going with a strategy of getting younger players in terms of instant results and money spent, hopefully the club can get some much needed depth in the forwards with the cap space that is available and be competitive next season.