Tassie Devil
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Haha can see the Kennel isn't a place for positivity right now. Best to give it a miss for a while
We had millions for this year? OK. I know for 2021 if that's what you're talking about?The last thing we needed was more cap space. We already had millions with no one to realistically spend it on. Who knows if we'll even be able to take advantage of it next year or what the cap will look like?
Why would rep players choose our club over anyone else right now? We just had one of our top 5 players de-registered and have a coach who has a 35% win percentage with the worst attack in the comp in over two years.. We just lost our only attacking 2nd rower who threw offloads..
Our only hope is that our juniors flourish or we sign young talent from other clubs but that just means more years of rebuilding.
The only way our cap space will be an asset is if they reduce the cap by percentage so we maintain our advantage in cap space and so many players are screwed over with their salaries that they'll be forced to sign with teams like ours who have space.
No, I meant we already had millions for 2021.We had millions for this year? OK. I know for 2021 if that's what you're talking about?
Was personally just asking who we could possible pick up this season but based on what everyone's saying ... no one.
Agree on the last point though. Just hope we're opportunistic enough to take advantage of it.
When is the footy coming back? How much will the cap be reduced and for how long? Will players even want to move clubs with a reduced cap? How long can players sign for?Haha can see the Kennel isn't a place for positivity right now. Best to give it a miss for a while
You mean, be lumbered with.think we can get a piece of timber to replace okumbor
We are so shit I'm convinced we will sign someone like Kevin Proctor as his replacement lolWe're signing no one
We have Foran (as mentor) and Shifty (as halves coach), pretty good coaching systems IMHO. If they don't bear fruit over time, 2 games isn't "time", then we can review.in all seriousness, we should probably bring Sezer home for a year or two.. sure he's not the best half in the comp, but it would be good to have some experience in the halves because there is so much pressure on our spine given that they obviously don't have great coaching systems around them. Also because we definitely, are not going to appeal to any of the top halves in the competition
We have Foran (as mentor) and Shifty (as halves coach), pretty good coaching systems IMHO. If they don't bear fruit over time, 2 games isn't "time", then we can review.
Go Dogs
Gone as a player maybe, gone as mentor maybe not.Foz will be gone at the end of year, and I am also thinking about having that on field stability, because we are just too frantic. I'd even take a Jake Friend for a year or two just to have some mongrel in the 9, because it's a position that we have been dominated in for years now
I've been saying this for a long time! We need experience in our spine... Give him a 2 year contract to partner up with Averilo or Wakeham..... You can't expect an apprentice to get the job done all by himself unless you show him the ropes..in all seriousness, we should probably bring Sezer home for a year or two.. sure he's not the best half in the comp, but it would be good to have some experience in the halves because there is so much pressure on our spine given that they obviously don't have great coaching systems around them. Also because we definitely, are not going to appeal to any of the top halves in the competition
I do also think he would offer more than just experience, Raiders have been one of the best attacking teams for years with him in the halves, even when Hodgson is not thereI've been saying this for a long time! We need experience in our spine... Give him a 2 year contract to partner up with Averilo or Wakeham..... You can't expect an apprentice to get the job done all by himself unless you show him the ropes..
It doesn't screw us. Everyone has to play to the same new cap. Players will just be on less money. That's all that changes. We will still have a higher % of the new salary cap to spend compared to other clubs. We're still going to have enough money to sign three to five more players depending on calibre. I'm pretty confident we'd have the salary cap space to sign JAC, Cotric, Milford and Friend if they were players that we wanted (I'm just using them as an e.g. as they make the most sense to me).We sat on our asses hailing 2021 as the year we have money to spend, put up with rubbish squads and continually performing badly. And now next year the salary cap will be reduced big time. Which screws us in the asshole.
Plus nobody knows how long till league starts and which players will come back unfit and shit etc and who will quit League full-time etc etc
Players will def be on less money but it will change the way players pick their clubs. Will be more about going to right club to win a premiership. We def arent one of those clubs. Big pay cheques are gone and so are the lure of top notch playersIt doesn't screw us. Everyone has to play to the same new cap. Players will just be on less money. That's all that changes. We will still have a higher % of the new salary cap to spend compared to other clubs. We're still going to have enough money to sign three to five more players depending on calibre.