@formerguest said in [Signing Suggestions & Rumours](/post/1442588) said:
Finally some news on roster change, even if it is costing us $390k to have a player to wear other's colours
So what I don’t understand is why would you negotiate, what I’m essence is a settlement of $390K, to move on Mybe unless you had plans on who your going to spend the money saved on?
With a recent history of missing out on targets, we must be confident in getting some decent players here otherwise some of the guys we currently have are getting a decent pay rise.
It’s a cycle.
Pay now save later.
Say Mbyes $850 in total is available next year. It will cost us $390 on the cap but wait. With Mikalee and Seyfarth potential resignings and Twal for instance off contract end of 22. You could arrange extensions for the above players this season. Front load part of their deal into this year all to the Sum of $390k and you’ve saved yourself his full wage next year. All legit.
Say no one is worth that money on the market in 22 and get to the end of the year and still have a bit of extra to spend. Do the same again.
Year by year our available cap spend for a year will be greater than 100% in addition year by year our core group gets more experienced and the playing talent within the Tigers improves making it more attractive to join the squad thus making signing the right marquee possible by having the attraction and the money.
Cool plan. Cant work. Ever year you have to have 30 contracted players and you must spend 90% of your cap.
Technically. But there are loop holes.
You need 30 contract by July, August this year but you don’t need the necessary amount through the year.
And there is nothing that what I mentioned doesn’t mean we haven’t met that requirement each year.
30 by 1 August. Must spend 90% by 1 October. Can do it first year, after than the maths doesnt add up.
I’ll answer both within the same post. Your focusing on just one player. There are 30 players and they are all off contract at different stages.
Essentially there are different type of players and therefore different types of recruitment strategies.
Consider the ‘stacked’ team the roosters had in 2013. SBW was promised 1 mil a season for two years. He himself knowing that it will only be a short term deal.
And more recently the 1 mil or so that the roosters recruited Cooper Cronk for. He was happy with a two year deal before he retired and man did it pay off. Over this time you have long term deals for all these nobody juniors (at the time) in Collins, Tupinoua, and long term stalwarts like Hargreaves / Friend etc. if they end up getting a little bit more when they are struggling and a little less when they are challenging does it matter? Plus if they are on a little less at the time of resigning and they are struggling it just makes it that much easier for the club to move on and pick up a potential new recruit to start shuffling their money around again.
