Re: Daisy charged for striking Laidler! - can accept 1 game suspension
Reply #94 –
I reckon there is some dodgy mathematics being applied with regards to these contracts.
I think people are looking at the years of contract combined with a figure we might have paid in one particular year (where front loading may have been performed) and multiplying by 5 to end up with a result that gives them ammunition to sling mud at our club.
Daisy is rumoured to have been on anywhere between 600k and 750 a season.
That doesnt mean he will get that money every season, but it might have been a figure he was on at this point. When you consider he was a restricted free agent, and Collingwood were only offering 450k a year plus bonuses (using this article as a relevant point) why would we indeed have gone double?
The answer is most likely that we havent. I believe his actual contract would be closer to 600k a year (still too much for what we have gotten/getting) and that there is a bit of creative accounting being used everywhere to simply pot the club like people are used to doing.
Front loading may have put him on a big packet in one season, but that would have had as much to do with us having cap wiggle room as anything else. We had Fev on 750k odd a few years ago, and we lured Judd at that time on a similar number, the cap space has increased quite signficantly since then, and we have no where near the salaries now that we did then. We must have heaps of room. We may have our biggest contracts being paid out as we speak leaving us signficant room available to play with moving forward which is all Im genuinly concerned about.
Its possible that Daisy's 5th year might only cost us a few of hundred thousand as we have paid him the rest of his money already. We probably wont find out for sure but no doubt some will use this as ammunition against our footy club as there are certain media types that are constantly having a go at our footy club. They are effectively kicking us whilst we are down, and Daisy is an easy target because the footy he is producing is putrid, and he is on a high price even for a good ordinary footballer.
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