Originally Posted by
The Magician
Doubt it very much... nothing goes down in price in this society.... 'Established' first graders wages will continue to rise incrementally each year, clubs will put a heavy price on experience as other clubs try to entice more experience to join and will have a flow on effect...
Lets be honest here... this NPL structure, PPS, etc will not stop exorbitant player wages, and clubs will not risk introducing more than 1 or 2 so called "development/ club developed" players into the first grade starting line up each year, unless they have already had a taste of first grade somewhere else, the player pool is not as deep as everyone thinks... we already see now that players 18-20yo leaving the E Jets are commanding $300+ per week and double that at certain clubs. If something is in DEMAND people will pay, and pay handsomely, even loyalty has its price.
If clubs are averaging $50-60K now per season Expect a $5K increase each year from now (inception of NPL) until the issue comes to a head and clubs start getting into serious financial ruin... so what money is left for developing facilities? hahahahaha
Lets say Jaffas (for example) average $400 per week per player for their starting 11... and it is well know that certain players in the Jaffas starting line up 2014 get much more than that so you will still have a few players at $200pw in the squad... but at $400pw average for the starting 11, 21 games per season, that over $90K... average $300 per week thats $69K... not many established players are going to change clubs for under $300pw, so if they aint going to change for that much they'd expect to stay for that much... and clubs will have more pressure to push established players out to cater for youth (whole point of PPS) but competition between clubs for these "fringe" players will and is becoming more intense... and more and more money will be thrown at these players as coaches 'guarantee' them first grade... I don't know what the answer is.
There is a strong rumour that 50K has been allocated to the coaches of Maitland to buy 6 players to ensure they dont get relegated first year up? And we expect bonus's will go down... laughable.
It seems when it comes to the NPL and the restructure of the competition with the increased expectation of professionalism and administration, player bonus's have followed suit and will continue too long into the future. As we pay our $8 every week we expect to go to games to watch quality football involving quality players, not donkey kids running around because some PPS said they have too, there is a lot of pressure on coaches and clubs to deliver a quality product (and not get relegated).