A.F.L. Thread II

[howardj]

Inglis to Essendon?

Wont happen.

To entice guys to take such a risk, there would need to be a big cash difference between what the Bombers would offer and what league/union could offer. The offers of KHunt and Izzy were one-offs - marketing ventures into new frontiers, heavily subsidised by marketing budgets, with the AFL also kicking in, and then $200 000 in salary cap. Inglis would only get the equivalent to the salary cap component, I reckon i.e. $200 000 - $300 000. No established club would offer an untried player more than that.

 

[benchmark00]

Nah, could easily offer him the same deal with only paying him the average salary ($250,000).

Blurs the line of what should and should not be included in the cap, but definitely do-able under the current rules.

 

[benchmark00]

Jack Watts is so far behind the standard at the moment.

 

[howardj]

Nah, could easily offer him the same deal with only paying him the average salary ($250,000).

Blurs the line of what should and should not be included in the cap, but definitely do-able under the current rules.

I'm not sure. I would have thought Ginglis would get a $500 000 package in the NRL - just in salary (more with outside endorsements factored in). I'm not sure whether an AFL club would pay over that, or could come up with a package of that magnitude, for a player who hadn't played the game. You'd think they'd need to pay overs to get him across.

 

[benchmark00]

Hasn't he pretty much said that he doesn't want to leave Melbourne because he's set himself up down there with his family etc?

Each football club has a bit over $500,000 for player marketing which isn't included in the cap. Say they pay Inglis $300,000 playing salary, plus $500,000 in player marketing. Then you take into consideration that he'll still have those outside sponsorships, such as Aasics which I think he's personally sponsored by. It's reaching towards the million dollar a season mark without him having to leave Melbourne, which the NRL will probably make him do if he stays in the code.

It's not that big of a risk really. He's fit, so you'll just have to spend a pre season getting his aerobic capacity up and teaching him game sense and he'll be right to play straight away, unlike recruiting a youngster who is 50kg and having to spend the best part of a year or two just bulking him up. Essendon would be a good fit for Inglis also.

 

[howardj]

Good post.

And yeah, I guess if O'Halpin (sp) only had a hurling background, then any prof athlete can make it lol

 

[pasag]

Dees coming back here. Making a game of it.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Re: the AFL teams lashing their marketing budget on players from NRL; only supposition on my part, obv, but isn't there a fair chance of resentment amongst the specialists who've been born and bred into the sport that league carpetbaggers are getting such huge slices of cheddar when (in all probability) their on-field performances won't justify them?

Also mildly surprised to see Hunt playing union in France; would've thought he'd be paying his AFL dues in a lower grade team.

 

[benchmark00]

Re: the AFL teams lashing their marketing budget on players from NRL; only supposition on my part, obv, but isn't there a fair chance of resentment amongst the specialists who've been born and bred into the sport that league carpetbaggers are getting such huge slices of cheddar when (in all probability) their on-field performances won't justify them?

Also mildly surprised to see Hunt playing union in France; would've thought he'd be paying his AFL dues in a lower grade team.

There is a chance of resentment, but who cares? The AFL is the best paying football code in Australia so why would they go anywhere else? I have no doubt that pretty much the majority of AFL players could make a career in NRL, but why would they take a pay cut to play in front of bugger all people?

I think there'll be an average increase in salary after the re-negotiation of the next Collective Bargaining Agreement anyways, so it's not like they're going to be living in poverty.

 

[pasag]

Re: the AFL teams lashing their marketing budget on players from NRL; only supposition on my part, obv, but isn't there a fair chance of resentment amongst the specialists who've been born and bred into the sport that league carpetbaggers are getting such huge slices of cheddar when (in all probability) their on-field performances won't justify them?

Also mildly surprised to see Hunt playing union in France; would've thought he'd be paying his AFL dues in a lower grade team.

Fev way ahead of ya

Brendan Fevola blasts Isreal Folau's $6 million Team GWS contract

 

[benchmark00]

Tyson Edwards to be picked next week??

 

[BoyBrumby]

Fev way ahead of ya

Brendan Fevola blasts Isreal Folau's $6 million Team GWS contract

Just saying what his more politic confreres are thinking, I reckon.

Interesting to hear Falou say the "majority" of his family are backing him too. In those kinda stage managed press gladhands everyone usually says all their friends and family are solidly behind them.

 

[benchmark00]

Great start here. Carn Roo boys.

 

[benchmark00]

So ***y.

Not confident yet though.

 

[benchmark00]

PS. Lachie Hansen's improvement makes me feel tingly inside.

 

[benchmark00]

Backing Brisbane to win this from here. **** we can be so spineless at times.

 

[benchmark00]

Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please DROP HALE FOR **** SAKE.

This is disgustingly spineless stuff here.

 

[benchmark00]

Nah **** this. Go **** yourself everyone. ****heads.

 

[benchmark00]

Backing Brisbane to win this from here. **** we can be so spineless at times.

It's so sad how well I know North Melbourne. Wrote this when we were 31 points up.

 

[benchmark00]

You are a disgrace David Hale. A disgrace.