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Forget Hay or Jacobs . Rawlings is THE player that I would love to see in the Red and White . He can play forward or back with equal ability and is a terrific mark and is just the player we need .Unfortunately , the Cats have made him their no 1 priority and he will be in great demand by other clubs.
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Hawks ask players for pay trim
September 3, 2003
HAWTHORN has asked senior players to accept a salary trim or risk the team being broken up due to payment pressure.
Senior players were called to the club on Tuesday and told there must be some salary sacrifice if the current playing group was to stay together, and remaining players were informed today.
Top-paid players at clubs including Brisbane and Carlton last year elected to moderate their pay demands in the interests of team solidarity, but it was a first for Hawthorn.
"We met with the playing group and told them where we are with the salary cap and have issues to work through," Hawthorn football manager John Hook told AAP.
"If they want to maintain must of the list together, we have to make some adjustments.
"The bottom line is to balance the salary cap....and our aim is to keep the players we want to keep.
"This in one part of fixing the problem, we wouldn't ask every players at the club to do it."peIn the recent past, clubs had been able to satisfy payment demands through burgeoning increases in the salary cap, but with an increase of just three per cent in the first year of the new agreement, such largesse had now been abandoned in the interests of fiscal austerity.
"If the players had just said they wanted three per cent (increase), we would accept that but that is not the case," Hook said.
That spelt bad news for players negotiating new contracts, which at Hawthorn included star players Jade Rawlings and Angelo Lekkas.
Salary cap pressure can also prompt some big name trades in mid-October's trade period, with Essendon last year forced to trade premiership trio Blake Caracella, Chris Heffernan and Justin Blumfield to stay within the cap, while Melbourne had to trade Brownlow Medallist Shane Woewodin.
AAP
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Hawks ask players for pay trim
September 3, 2003
HAWTHORN has asked senior players to accept a salary trim or risk the team being broken up due to payment pressure.
Senior players were called to the club on Tuesday and told there must be some salary sacrifice if the current playing group was to stay together, and remaining players were informed today.
Top-paid players at clubs including Brisbane and Carlton last year elected to moderate their pay demands in the interests of team solidarity, but it was a first for Hawthorn.
"We met with the playing group and told them where we are with the salary cap and have issues to work through," Hawthorn football manager John Hook told AAP.
"If they want to maintain must of the list together, we have to make some adjustments.
"The bottom line is to balance the salary cap....and our aim is to keep the players we want to keep.
"This in one part of fixing the problem, we wouldn't ask every players at the club to do it."peIn the recent past, clubs had been able to satisfy payment demands through burgeoning increases in the salary cap, but with an increase of just three per cent in the first year of the new agreement, such largesse had now been abandoned in the interests of fiscal austerity.
"If the players had just said they wanted three per cent (increase), we would accept that but that is not the case," Hook said.
That spelt bad news for players negotiating new contracts, which at Hawthorn included star players Jade Rawlings and Angelo Lekkas.
Salary cap pressure can also prompt some big name trades in mid-October's trade period, with Essendon last year forced to trade premiership trio Blake Caracella, Chris Heffernan and Justin Blumfield to stay within the cap, while Melbourne had to trade Brownlow Medallist Shane Woewodin.
AAP
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