2016/17 Squad Thread

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It's not a rort if it's in the rules.
Paying someone out eats into the cap and limits the ability of the club to invest in the team.

If you pay him out say 55k and replace him the new player essentially costs you their wage plus the bloke you sacked. So a 75k new player costs you 130k of cap space.

You'd be better off moving Brennan out from under the cap and using that 130k to get a 130k player.


The "rort" isn't being used to ignore the local NPL, it's being used to spend money more wisely in the squad.

Brennan if not gone sooner will not be here next year and the club can go back to ignoring the local NPL without any fuss.

Its not in the rules, thats exactly what I am saying. And rorting the salary cap, no matter how minor, is not something we should be particularly proud of. If this was SFC or WSW we would be spewing that they can bend the rules whenever they like. And they do it a damn sight better than we can.

If we don't want to pay out 55k (would be now 41-46k after 3 months) players then we shouldn't stupidly be signing them to 2 year contracts in the first place. We shouldn't be signing your Clut's and Hoole's if we don't have enough squad places. Its 46k and we are owned by a multi millionaire. Its nothing to do with salary cap space or 130k when we haven't used either marquee position. We are being tightarse over 46k and being dodgy in the process.

If thats infact what does happen, as I doubt it will, or that the FFA will actually approve it despite what "unamed FFA official" may or may not have said. I mean why is Miller openly talking about moving players on before the season even starts if everything was peachy and we had the squad spot available. Why wouldn't McKinna just come out and say it, why would the FFA official be unnamed. Just announce at the next press conference that Brennan has been moved to the MA Rookie if everything is above board.

The FFA statement at the time said

Clubs can pay a Mature Age Rookie outside the Salary Cap to encourage talented players in the National Premier Leagues. This player must be over the age of 21, not played in a fully professional competition for the last 18 months and last played football in Australia. This player must be paid at least the Minimum Salary

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/...j1vyywqy5lcn3g

Anyway lets see how this plays out over the next 2 weeks