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The follow up to yesterday's article.  Here are some of the numbers for Melbourne players.

Remember - this is just what they are being paid THIS YEAR.

44 - Jake Lever.  On between $700-$750k

43 - Steven May.  On between $700-$750k

39 - Clayton Oliver.  On between $700-$750k

10 - Max Gawn.  On between $900-$950k

The top 10 in terms of who is on the most this season is:

Jeremy Cameron (on roughly 1.5 mill)

Lance Franklin

Nat Fyfe

Dustin Martin

Jack Martin

Patrick Dangerfield

Jeremy McGovern

Marcus Bontempelli

Lachie Neale

Max Gawn

 

Gee Franklin is getting paid well to be injured!

No real surprises in our list for me. Gawn obviously our best player of the last 4-5 years and deserves to be highest paid, as well as being captain of the club. I would expect his next contract will be on a reduced number so as to get our side together as much as possible over the next 5 years.

Clarry already a 2 time B&F winner and all-Australian so enough said.

Lever & Mar yet to justify their salaries, though they are trending in the right direction.

Geelong don't pay anyone around or more than $1m so surprised to see Danger there.

Surprised Patrick Cripps isn't there.  AA, Club Captain, 2019 MVP, 4th in 2019 Brownlow etc.

He, Pendlebury, Tom Mitchell and Josh Kelly are at or over $1m.

 
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3 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Geelong don't pay anyone around or more than $1m so surprised to see Danger there.

Surprised Patrick Cripps isn't there.  AA, Club Captain, 2019 MVP, 4th in 2019 Brownlow etc.

He, Pendlebury, Tom Mitchell and Josh Kelly are at or over $1m.

Cripps was number 11 at the same range as Max.

Selwood was also number 13 at the $850k - 900k mark (just to go with what Danger is being paid).

Pendles was number 16, Josh Kelly was 19 and Tom Mitchell was 37.  O'Meara is paid more this year than he is.

Damn. Even if we cleared Nat Jones and TMac off the books it wouldn't add up to Cameron. 


Is that Jack Martin from Carlton ? If so then there is something seriously wrong.

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Just now, dl4e said:

Is that Jack Martin from Carlton ? If so then there is something seriously wrong.

It is - but they would have front loaded his contract to outbid everyone else, although we were the only other team that might have had a look before their pick.  He will be on much less in the coming few years.

Paul Marsh on the Radio now saying this article is a complete croc of...

The information is simply not available to journalists.

Typical HUN article from Slobbo and Jon Ralph and others

 
35 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Paul Marsh on the Radio now saying this article is a complete croc of...

The information is simply not available to journalists.

Typical HUN article from Slobbo and Jon Ralph and others

I'd be very surprised if it's wrong by much other than the degree of front and back loading. Football clubs leak and it is the job of managers and journalists etc to know these things.

Given the salary cap and the need to maintain a reasonable degree of pay relativity it's not an impossible exercise by any means.

Would be very interested to know the advantage salary wise that the power clubs get from player loyalty (the desire to be at a successful club with a real premiership chance.)My guess is that it could be anywhere between 5 and 10%. There is also the advantage that the Eagles have with WA players wanting to play locally. MFCSS warns me that we could be training Nic Nats replacement.

23 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

I'd be very surprised if it's wrong by much other than the degree of front and back loading. Football clubs leak and it is the job of managers and journalists etc to know these things.

Given the salary cap and the need to maintain a reasonable degree of pay relativity it's not an impossible exercise by any means.

Would be very interested to know the advantage salary wise that the power clubs get from player loyalty (the desire to be at a successful club with a real premiership chance.)My guess is that it could be anywhere between 5 and 10%. There is also the advantage that the Eagles have with WA players wanting to play locally. MFCSS warns me that we could be training Nic Nats replacement.

It’s none of anyone’s business unless the Club is over the salary cap. 
 

 


remember ~2012 when Scully was the 2nd highest paid player after Ablett?  lol

great recruiting GWS

On 7/26/2020 at 3:36 PM, dl4e said:

Is that Jack Martin from Carlton ? If so then there is something seriously wrong.

Nah, it's ok. He's a spokesperson for Visy also


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On 7/29/2020 at 6:19 PM, DubDee said:

remember ~2012 when Scully was the 2nd highest paid player after Ablett?  lol

great recruiting GWS

Remember 2020 when Scully was a paid player at all?  Top work, Hawthorn :D :D

So we have 4 players earning around $700k that being Gawn, Lever, May and McDonald. Should we think about chasing a big fish in Cameron, Williams or Daniher? seeing as we have no 1st round draft picks and plenty of Cap space leftover presumably. 

1 hour ago, Caligula's cohort said:

So we have 4 players earning around $700k that being Gawn, Lever, May and McDonald. Should we think about chasing a big fish in Cameron, Williams or Daniher? seeing as we have no 1st round draft picks and plenty of Cap space leftover presumably. 

We also have, if you believe these figures:

56. Viney $675 - $725K

59. McDonald $675K - $725K

66. Petracca $650K - $700K

86. Brayshaw $600K - $650K

That would give a minimum of $5.6M between eight players. It is hard to imagine we have too much cap space available once you bring in Melksham, Hibberd, Langdon, Tomlinson and Harmes who would get another $2M - $2.5M between them.

 

44 minutes ago, poita said:

We also have, if you believe these figures:

56. Viney $675 - $725K

59. McDonald $675K - $725K

66. Petracca $650K - $700K

86. Brayshaw $600K - $650K

That would give a minimum of $5.6M between eight players. It is hard to imagine we have too much cap space available once you bring in Melksham, Hibberd, Langdon, Tomlinson and Harmes who would get another $2M - $2.5M between them.

 

If you accept the figures we have 8 players in the top 100. On a simple distribution between clubs it should be no more than 6.

Not sure what you can read into that but I expect we are overpaying some.


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