Ok I’m going to throw some hypothetical salary cap stuff out there and get people's feedback.
So as a club we have 9.9 mil to spend on players.
That equates to $333000 Per Player.
The minimum wage is $115000
Squad make up
8 middle forwards.
3 hookers
6 second rowers
4 halves
9 backs
Makes 30 How does that look to people?
So let’s say you have 5 min wage people. That’s $575000
Cap is now 9325000 for 25 or 373000 per player.
So realistically you are asking at least another 5 players to be around 200k so you can buy some marquees.
That leaves us at $8325000 or $416250 per player.
Now, these are all hypothetical. But I think people need to realise that 500k is actually a really good chunk of cap space and on the forum, every second person wants to give the average bloke that coin.
If we use something like this model it actually shows you how hamstrung we are atm.
Packer $700k
J-rey $750k
Mbye $950k
Just those 3 put us at 2.4mil Making our salary cap 7.5 mil
7.5mil – let’s say 5 min contract players puts us at 6.975 mil
$6975000 or $310000 per player.
Now if we go further and use figures that are reported we also have
AD $600k
Joey $600k
Lucy $450k
Nofo $450
Brooks $550k
Totallying 2.65 mil
So if we include that in the mbye, jrey, packer stakes that leaves us with
$6975000-$2650000
$4325000 total or $255000 per player
So with just those players our squad needs are (if we were using all of them and I know we have a lot of these covered this is just for arguments sake).
7 middle forwards
3 hookers
5 back rowers
2 halves
5 backs.
At least 5 of these have to min wage but looking at our figures probably more.
Now if you add all the other players we have using @curly_tigers estimates
You have
Billy Walters $200k
Stefano 270K (800k over 3 years)
Tamou 350K
Liddle 300k
Garner 300k
Aloai 300k
Twal 200k
Momo 250k
That totals $2170000
So now our totals are $4325000 – 2170000= 2155000
2.155mil or $240000 per player for the remaining 9.
So an update on the above formula
3 middle forwards
1 hooker
4 back rowers
2 halves
4 backs
5 positions filled with min wage.
I guess my purpose in this is trying to understand what management is trying to pull players in with.
With the rough estimates above we need 9 players on 240k per player.
If we give Josh 500k like some have stated it gets scarier, 1.655 mil between 8 which means 205000 per player. If we give another recruit 500k it works out at 145k per player for the remaining 8.
Basically that means we have 13 players on min contracts. That is a hec of a lot.
Anyway would be interesting to get people’s views on this I know some of the numbers will be wrong one way or another but it’s a rough guide.
For me I’d hate to be in management atm because realistically we are bargain bin shopping
So as a club we have 9.9 mil to spend on players.
That equates to $333000 Per Player.
The minimum wage is $115000
Squad make up
8 middle forwards.
3 hookers
6 second rowers
4 halves
9 backs
Makes 30 How does that look to people?
So let’s say you have 5 min wage people. That’s $575000
Cap is now 9325000 for 25 or 373000 per player.
So realistically you are asking at least another 5 players to be around 200k so you can buy some marquees.
That leaves us at $8325000 or $416250 per player.
Now, these are all hypothetical. But I think people need to realise that 500k is actually a really good chunk of cap space and on the forum, every second person wants to give the average bloke that coin.
If we use something like this model it actually shows you how hamstrung we are atm.
Packer $700k
J-rey $750k
Mbye $950k
Just those 3 put us at 2.4mil Making our salary cap 7.5 mil
7.5mil – let’s say 5 min contract players puts us at 6.975 mil
$6975000 or $310000 per player.
Now if we go further and use figures that are reported we also have
AD $600k
Joey $600k
Lucy $450k
Nofo $450
Brooks $550k
Totallying 2.65 mil
So if we include that in the mbye, jrey, packer stakes that leaves us with
$6975000-$2650000
$4325000 total or $255000 per player
So with just those players our squad needs are (if we were using all of them and I know we have a lot of these covered this is just for arguments sake).
7 middle forwards
3 hookers
5 back rowers
2 halves
5 backs.
At least 5 of these have to min wage but looking at our figures probably more.
Now if you add all the other players we have using @curly_tigers estimates
You have
Billy Walters $200k
Stefano 270K (800k over 3 years)
Tamou 350K
Liddle 300k
Garner 300k
Aloai 300k
Twal 200k
Momo 250k
That totals $2170000
So now our totals are $4325000 – 2170000= 2155000
2.155mil or $240000 per player for the remaining 9.
So an update on the above formula
3 middle forwards
1 hooker
4 back rowers
2 halves
4 backs
5 positions filled with min wage.
I guess my purpose in this is trying to understand what management is trying to pull players in with.
With the rough estimates above we need 9 players on 240k per player.
If we give Josh 500k like some have stated it gets scarier, 1.655 mil between 8 which means 205000 per player. If we give another recruit 500k it works out at 145k per player for the remaining 8.
Basically that means we have 13 players on min contracts. That is a hec of a lot.
Anyway would be interesting to get people’s views on this I know some of the numbers will be wrong one way or another but it’s a rough guide.
For me I’d hate to be in management atm because realistically we are bargain bin shopping
