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Half Season Contracts for Veterans?

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problem is contacts begin at end of October, so a 6 month contract basically means nov,dec.jan,mar,apr,may - not much actual football here

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    14 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    problem is contacts begin at end of October, so a 6 month contract basically means nov,dec.jan,mar,apr,may - not much actual football here

    He didn't say 6 month contract, he said a 10-12 game, half season contract.

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    19 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    He didn't say 6 month contract, he said a 10-12 game, half season contract.

    Not a stupid idea, as it probably only would be used for assisting veterans get to a milestone, or giving guys on the fringe a last chance at impressing the FD.

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    6 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Not a stupid idea, as it probably only would be used for assisting veterans get to a milestone, or giving guys on the fringe a last chance at impressing the FD.

    i guess this would also mean a mid season draft?

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    I wouldn't mind this, potentially packaged with some kind of role to keep Jones involved in a coaching or training capacity (similar to what we offered Lewis, Cross and Byrnes). It's about time we started keeping some long-time servants of the club on as staff rather than watching them build their post-footy careers elsewhere (Yze, Neitz, Bruce, Green, Rivers, Miller to name a few). With that said, I have no idea whether Jones wants to pursue coaching or if he'd be good at it.

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    20 minutes ago, Dee man said:

    I wouldn't mind this, potentially packaged with some kind of role to keep Jones involved in a coaching or training capacity (similar to what we offered Lewis, Cross and Byrnes). It's about time we started keeping some long-time servants of the club on as staff rather than watching them build their post-footy careers elsewhere (Yze, Neitz, Bruce, Green, Rivers, Miller to name a few). With that said, I have no idea whether Jones wants to pursue coaching or if he'd be good at it.

    The soft cap for 2021 has been slashed by one third from approx $9M to $6M.

    Coaching and support jobs will be at a premium.

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