Swans salary cap concessions

[Big Al]

Re: Swans salary cap concessions

Well you can choose to eat those baked beans at a fancy restaurant or you can eat those baked beans at a roadside diner. You shouldnt be paid more just because you do the former.

Serving Baked Beans at a fancy restaurant sounds like a St Kilda issue and not a Swans one.

[erica]

I can see and appreciate the point you are trying to make, the fact of the matter is that these boys, because of logistics, HAVE to live in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and that is some of the most expensive real estate in the country! I would think that we would be the only club in the competition that really needs their players in a specific location or at least in an area where there truly is no cheaper alternative.
If they didn't get a pay packet reflective of the cost of where they have to live, they would have no choice BUT to eat baked beans on toast!

My thoughts on it anyway.....

I don't agree they have to live in the Eastern Suburbs. Jude seems to manage quite well from Lane Cove/Longueville. Thousands of people manage to travel to work every day in Sydney without living near their workplace.

Besides, GWS gets the salary cap concession for being in Sydney, too, and their players don't live in the Eastern Suburbs.

[Big Al]

Also, what if the club dietitian says they're not allowed to eat baked beans? Do they risk censure from the club to get around the cost of living allowance.

So many conundrums.

All this baked bean talk is giving me the @@@@s.

[Industrial Fan]

All this baked bean talk is giving me the @@@@s.

And I thought the baked beans were making things flow quite nicely.

[aardvark]

Here's the boys at dinner after training....

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[Cardinal]

Melbourne cheaper city for renters

[Triple B]

A guy rang into SEN late yesterday with an idea that had merit.

Sydney to operate under the same cap as everybody else with the AFL themselves handling the extra 9.8%.

If Ireland isn't telling porkies about the extra COL allowance being spread across the list, Sydney should have no complaints and makes it transparent.

So if Tippett signs on for 600K and papers are lodged for that amount under the salary cap, he receives an extra 58.8K from the AFL (ultimately coming from the Swans money obviously). Rookies who receive let's say 50K, would receive an extra 4.9K from the AFL etc...

[ShockOfHair]

Doesn't AFL audit the clubs' player payments? Or do they just rely on the clubs' own statements? If so, how do we know there isn't a Storm brewing?

[ScottH]

Doesn't AFL audit the clubs' player payments? Or do they just rely on the clubs' own statements? If so, how do we know there isn't a Storm brewing?

They must do. Ask Carlton.

[Mr Magoo]

I love how all year long the swans are seen as a dour bunch of reasonably consistent players yet when we win a premiership they instantly assume that our team are a highly paid bunch of stars due to the loading. What a croc.

The lure for the previous two high profile forwards to come our way was of course the money being offerred but also the chance of living outside the fishbowl of melbourne. Maybe Tippett sees the same advantages as Lockett and Hall did as well as being near beaches that Adelaide could only dream about and near family and friends.

[GongSwan]

Doesn't AFL audit the clubs' player payments? Or do they just rely on the clubs' own statements? If so, how do we know there isn't a Storm brewing?

Of course they do, but don't try to tell that to an opposition supporter. All auditors are independant too. When those blokes with the green pens walk in, accountants everywhere start panicking

[707]

In an ealier post I alluded to the need to compensate players fo the high cost of living in Sydney because almost our entire list is from outside Sydney/NSW so therefore unlike most other teams our players aren't playing in their home city/state with the reduced living cost and comfort of home state of mind.

The going home factor has really come to the fore in the last couple of years. Non Melbourne clubs have always had to deal with this down side of recruiting. So how many home grown products are on each teams list, that is players who aren't going to ask for a trade on the homesick basis. I've done the rough figures -

29 - North Melbourne
27 - Geelong
25 - Richmond, West Coast (they draft WA whenever possible)
24 - Collingwood
23 - Hawthorn, Melbourne
22 - Carlton, Essendon
21 - St.Kilda, Western Bulldogs
19 - Adelaide (draft SA whenever possible and after Tippett will probably never draft a non SA again!)
16 - Freo
13 - Port Adelaide (hit hard with go home)
8 - Brisbane
5 - Swans (Armstrong, Bird, Jack, LRT, McVeigh)

[Nico]

I love how all year long the swans are seen as a dour bunch of reasonably consistent players yet when we win a premiership they instantly assume that our team are a highly paid bunch of stars due to the loading. What a croc.

The lure for the previous two high profile forwards to come our way was of course the money being offerred but also the chance of living outside the fishbowl of melbourne. Maybe Tippett sees the same advantages as Lockett and Hall did as well as being near beaches that Adelaide could only dream about and near family and friends.

There is a fair chance he reckons there is a better pool of women in Sydney, particularly the southern beaches.

[dimelb]

There is a fair chance he reckons there is a better pool of women in Sydney, particularly the southern beaches.

He was watching 'The Shire'?

[Big Al]

Swans salary cap concessions

There is a fair chance he reckons there is a better pool of women in Sydney, particularly the southern beaches.

There's a better pool of women living out of boxes in the Kuringai National Park than Adelaide. I should know, all my E-harmony dates start there.