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Icey what your getting at...

Only in the accounts department...

Oh...

About the biggest role we play in GF day. Who is running for us? Blease? Jamar? Who will win? Dangerfield?

I expected it from the rest of them but not from you Mr Burgundy...

If I recal Adelaide were chasing last year before he signed a new contract.

I think he actually polled 21 and from round 16 onwards would have had the most votes in the league. His second half of the season was exceptional...

Though to watch those highlights...what a talent!

GWS may be more interested in a pick than a player so we better hope the are not interested in Shaw now he is on the market. Hopefully they view him as too much to handel and Adams prefers what we offer anyway.

GWS may be more interested in a pick than a player so we better hope the are not interested in Shaw now he is on the market. Hopefully they view him as too much to handel and Adams prefers what we offer anyway.

Does that mean he's not trying to poach Swans academy players?

No PJ's recent comments were specifically that attracting talent will be difficult because we can not "afford" to pay 100% of the cap.

He's up there no doubt and we seem to be on the short list. But I suspect the recent performances of the respective groups may count against us. Fingers "crossed"

If you want to see a competitive Melbourne it should concern you. Peter Jacksons comment was not overpaying an inadequate list. It was about the difficulty in addressing that inadequacy without being able to afford 100% of the cap. "he said it was no secret the club needed midfielders but it was restricted in what it could afford to offer because it wasn't able to pay 100% of the cap at the moment". You are right to be just as concerned about not not having the talent on our list in the first place (although the AFL will tell you we have plenty). And having the assets to satisfy a club in a trade is important. But you won't get to that point unless we can convince players to come to us and without being able to pay 100% of the cap we are at a significant disadvantage in a very competitive market. I still chose to believe there is a way through this but it does stack the odds against us.

The Salary Cap Dazzel...it's how much we can pay our players. We are at present performing on the field at the same level as GWS and behind GCS. We are told that we have enough talent to turn it around. Yet those two teams who are trying to mature as we are have significantly more talent than us on their list and they not only pay 100% of the salary cap they pay well above it. Which means they are better placed to retain the greater talent they already have and still bring in more when needed. How are we suppose to compete with the expansion clubs let alone the top teams of the competition who will be the greatest benefactors of free agency? True equalisation would be either giving us sufficient funding to allow us to pay 100% of the cap and attract and retain players or providing us with with draft assistance to bring in the talent we may not be able to attract or providing us with a fixture that assists us to generate the funds ourselves. The latter is by far the most preferable. No doubt the ability to restructure our football department and bring in someone like Roos is huge. But i suspect we are on a dripfeed to struggle town.

With Sports Science being his interest it is not surprising the 3 clubs are Blues, Port and us with Mission, Buttifant and Burgess. While Mission is very good I suspect the latter two would be slightly more credentialed and appealing.

I am more upset to learn we are not able to pay 100% of the cap than not getting a PP.

I suspect our application will be granted next year when we don't do a Port and finish behind GCS and GWS. Watching the Cats v Hawks on Friday night I was thinking we are so far from this kind of footy and the top teams it's not funny.

I just read in an article about watts being close to signing and PJ said that we are not paying 100% of the cap. This is reprehensible in this day and age. This funding provided is a drip feed and will keep us afloat but not competitive. It's a chicken an egg thing. We will not get a better fixture and better commercial outcomes until we are more competitive...but it will be difficult for us to be competitive until we can afford to pay the cap. Seems we are no longer forward paying the cap to create a gap for future years.

GWS have pulled out. His offer from the Tigers might be down to 400k now. Ralph Carr you idiot.

And what are we looking for from him?

I hope none of our players have Ralph Carr as a manager.

If Roos is having chats with the players I just hope he doesn't talk to the indigenous boys as a group.

Pun intended?

Cheers for the year lads.