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I spoke to someone closely connected to an AFL club last week. This person told me that their son had just called and was super excited after the Club Best and Fairest night. This player told them that they finished 10th, and that got them a $55k bonus. Added to that, there was also a $20k bonus for playing 20 games. so thats $75k on top of their wage for being top 10, and playing 20 games. My contact said they did not know what their sons base wage was as they had never asked. (Fair enough). I was also told a couple of stories about a player who we (MFC) were once close to drafting (And should have) Just gossip, nothing pertaining to MFC so dont get too excited.

I would be very interested to know if anyone had a clue as to what sort of bonus payments our guys get based on the same benchmarks.

Its gonna be such a loooooong off season.

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    There are all sorts of incentives for B&F finishes, Brownlow, finals, games played etc. It would vary widely I imagine. Someone like a Dusty would be on quite large incentives...

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    3 hours ago, ding said:

    I spoke to someone closely connected to an AFL club last week. This person told me that their son had just called and was super excited after the Club Best and Fairest night. This player told them that they finished 10th, and that got them a $55k bonus. Added to that, there was also a $20k bonus for playing 20 games. so thats $75k on top of their wage for being top 10, and playing 20 games. My contact said they did not know what their sons base wage was as they had never asked. (Fair enough). I was also told a couple of stories about a player who we (MFC) were once close to drafting (And should have) Just gossip, nothing pertaining to MFC so dont get too excited.

    I would be very interested to know if anyone had a clue as to what sort of bonus payments our guys get based on the same benchmarks.

    Its gonna be such a loooooong off season.

    Maybe it depends upon a given club and whether the club is under or over the salary cap. ?

    It might be an adjustment to right any wrongs, within it's sCap.?

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    8 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    There are all sorts of incentives for B&F finishes, Brownlow, finals, games played etc. It would vary widely I imagine. Someone like a Dusty would be on quite large incentives...

    I would have thought the word be standardized incentives across the club, for the sake of the salary cap.  Ie they set aside $500k for BnF finishes, regardless of who places.  Similarly bonus for games played, would be a list wide standardised bonus.

    But then some players would have personal contract triggers: BnF, number of games,  maybe even other stats who knows?

    For someone like Dusty, you'd like that bonus would be over and above a pretty generous base salary. For a mid and lower tier player it could be a larger % component.

     

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    Chris Judd is collecting today as well.Retirement has not harmed his wages.

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    I have a vague memory of us having so many injuries and having to make so many bonus payments to rookies and lower paid players we had to let the afl know we were going to be over the cap

    Or am i imagining things

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