News Gus’ $5.6m splurge just put the squeeze on the Dogs and left four stars looking over their shoulders

[hackenbush]

Reckon Allan will stay for 1 more year & then rejoin Bennett at the Dolphins.

 

[Bob dog]

Quick!
Anything to upset the Bulldogs, WHO exactly is in charge of the five year salary cap balance projected possibility long term plan??

 

[Family Guy]

Player option

What a stupid move by the club. Nobody else was after him so why would we do that. Of course he's going to take up the option to spend the year playing NSW Cup. Thank God Gus is here because he never would have authorised such a rubbish deal. He's a total waste of a roster spot in 23 as Cook will have surpassed him by then

 

[ddt192]

Panthers have Crichton, Luai, Cleary, JFH and Kikau all on good money. I'm also probably missing a few.

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I see this posted and every team has something similar, if not worse???

We're trying to move on Flanagan, Allan and probably Waddell (anyone on decent money outside our top 17). A couple will probably leave from our top 17 too but we aren't in a salary cap crisis or anything... 2 of our signings are also for 23...

LOLLL Fuckin Thommo back up to 800k faarrkk off fox sports useless *****

 

[bulldogsmyte]

Whilst it would be very difficult to cope with, I can learn to live with Allan and Flanagan leaving.

Letting them go is a sacrifice our club has to make.

In all seriousness, the media didn't give much of a sh!t about us when were at the bottom - our roster has barely been reserve grade standard for several years. Now we have made some important signings we are suddenly under cap pressure and being described as "star studded" in one article I read. Even with several big signings we are still nowhere as "star studded" as the top 4 teams. That's just further proof of how sh!t our roster was in the first place before any of these signings.

The reason the media is crawling all over us now is because we are obviously on the way up and the media's just gotta bash a successful Dogs team - it's been that way for more years than I can even remember. It's really tiresome by now.

As a side comment interesting to see after winning the comp Panffers have lost some important players and it's a normal consequence if a team is legitimate re the salary cap. Funny how Rorters and Melbourne had multiple premierships and grand final appearances in successive years but no significant loss of players. They must both have a super duper accountant who I should get to do my tax return and get me a million dollar refund.

In fairness to Melbourne they have a history of turning unknown and ordinary players into stars. Who ever heard of Slater, Smith, Cronk, Grant etc before they played for Melbourne?

 

[JackDog]

Why the fark are the Chooks immune from questioning, FMD they have 7 players taking up $5.25m

Crichton	720
Keary	850
Manu	720
Radley	500
Taukeiaho	655
Tedesco	1,100
JWH	700

Plus there are only 2 spine players in their top 7 contract values. They are fair dinkum teflon coated, nothing ever farkin sticks to the Chooks.

Always a Bulldog

Don’t you remember Boozefields article earlier this year? He proved* the Rorters were cap compliant!




* used bullshit figures just like he does in every story he writes

 

[DublinDogg]

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how goods the URL lol. Like a car ad on gumtree 200sx s15 mazda rx7 rx8 datsun commodore falcon mazda 3

Also, Cotric just went back up to 650k guys. Speculating on salaries is just a waste of time as i've always said.

Wow they are really trying to capatalize on SEO lol

 

[Blueandwhiteblood1968]

The Bulldogs’ recent big-fish signings, Reed Mahoney and Viliame Kikau, have raised concerns over the club’s salary cap situation for the 2023 season.
Penrith powerhouse Kikau has reportedly inked a four-year deal worth just over $800,000 per season, while Parramatta’s pint-sized hooker Mahoney has signed a four-year deal at $650,000 per season.
That’s on top of the hefty salaries the likes of Luke Thompson, Nick Cotric and Tevita Pangai Jr stand to earn in 2023.


Mahoney and Kikau take Canterbury’s 2023 roster to a total of 21 players — plus Jack Hetherington and Jeremy Marshall-King have options in their contracts for 2023. That leaves nine spots to fill (if Hetherington and Marshall-King are not retrained) with not a lot of cash to spend.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the club will look to promote players from its New South Wales, Jersey Flegg and SG Ball teams to fill those spots.

Canterbury’s general manager of football, Phil Gould told the board on Thursday night that the club is planning on signing up to five players from the pathways teams to the top 30 for 2023, according to the Herald.

The Bulldogs will have plenty of cattle to choose from after it was announced last month that the club will bring back its own New South Wales Cup side next season, while also continuing its partnership with feeder side Mounties.
However, despite the vision to promote younger players from within, there’s fears the club will almost be forced into releasing at least one big-money player before 2023 to ease cap pressure.
According to multiple reports, Nick Cotric, Luke Thompson, Kyle Flanagan and Corey Allan are the players the Bulldogs are willing to let go early.

Cotric joined Canterbury-Bankstown on a rich three-year deal at $650,000-per-season. He was the first big-name player to sign as the club began its rebuild.
However, the 23-year-old has been heavily linked to a return to the Raiders, while he has also reportedly been shopped to the Eels and Wests Tigers.
Thompson had been linked to the Tigers — even coach Michael Maguire confirmed in August there was some interest in the Englishman — but nothing ever came of it. His $800,000 salary is chewing up a great deal of the Bulldogs’ cap.
Meanwhile, Flanagan and Allan are both said to earn $500,000 in 2023 — a startling amount given both aren’t guaranteed to land a spot in coach Trent Barrett’s 17.
However, there seems to be little interest in the pair from rival clubs.


Unless the Rugby League Player’s Association can negotiate an increase, the 2023 salary cap will be $10 million.

The Daily Telegraph claims the Bulldogs’ 2023 roster has already taken up close to $8.85 million, leaving just $1.15 million to fill the remaining spots. However, add in Mahoney’s salary and that figure drops to $500,000.

A minimum deal starts at $80,000.

Gould’s plan to fill half of the final spots with low-money deals for players from the pathways system leaves big question marks over the future of several players that come off contract at the end of 2022.
Matt Dufty and Paul Vaughan have just joined the club on one-year, lowball deals looking to revive their careers. If both players have a good season, their value will increase — but the Bulldogs won’t have the cash to keep them both.
As is the case for Raymond Faitala-Mariner, who is expected back from a foot injury in the early rounds of next season.

With Gould running the show we'll be right with the salary cap I have no doubt