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Jack Bowes Salary Dump

DemonSam
in Melbourne Demons

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40 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

He’d probably have to go to Essendon for that, where he’d get poor coaching and fitness advice and be out of the league in 2 years.

This way he gets the Geelong special home cooking that sees all of their players add 5kg of bulk instantly and he’ll probably get a deal with Cotton On to sell undies. Plus he’ll play until he’s 33 rather than 26.

Don' t forget the farm/property he will pick up.

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    It's wild that we can't get a top 10 pick for Jackson leaving, and yet Cats get pick 7 and a player... 

    Crazy

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    37 minutes ago, ChaserJ said:

    This is very much at the heart of the problem. The AFL have stuffed the equalisation economy with all of the assistance GC received over multiple years (I’ll call it ‘pick-flation’).

    Theyve had so much draft pick stimulus pumped in, the value of a high pick has just diminished and created a salary cap squeeze in order to retain these highly rated players. Because they’ve taken on too much of that water, so they’re unloading and it’s the well run and well off clubs catching all of the overflow. Even when helping lift the poorer clubs up, the stronger clubs end up benefitting. It’s why equalisation measures are cooked.

    In order to maintain some integrity of the cap, AFL should have limited the capacity of contract smoothing for clubs taking on salary dump contracts. E.g. Geelong should take on the full 850 for a two year period, but permitted to negotiate a friendlier extension that only triggers when the original contract has been fulfilled. The measure of when a trade constitutes a ‘dump’ could  be measured by the other incentives involved in the trade (I.e. an objectively one sided deal). Funny that Ned Guy is in the role that l’d see assessing this function at the AFL. No wonder dumps were waved through this year.

    Allowing clubs inheriting the dumped contract and smooth straight away feels like a rort.

    That’s because it is a rort. 

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    14 minutes ago, old55 said:

    It'll be fascinating to see what Geelong send back.

    It should be F1 but it won't be.

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    1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    It should be F1 but it won't be.

    Well it can't be that now after Geelong's future pick trade with Brisbane, you're right.  Shaping to be F3rd - that's a shocker!

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    What is the rationale for Geelong trading around pick 60 to GCS?

    Is it part of the required trade process for them to give something in exchange.

    Thanks

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