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Salary cap to match isn't a meaningful roadblock. Any contract more than three years they can park all the excess cash in year 3+ where they won't have players contracted.
If he comes into 2025 with the form he showed at the end of the year I think he's easily worth a million per year.
The Salary Cap just increased dramatically
Even still, I don't think he's quite got the runs on the board for that. You don't want to get caught out over paying a ruckman
Looks about right to me.
Owies is a very limited player. Don't let the jumper tugs cloud your judgement. Martin was delisted due to being injured literally all of the time.
Kennedy is the same type of midfielder as Cripps/Hewett/Cerra. You can't play all four in a team and he had the most trade value. Young has been shite apart from 2022 and was rightly told to explore his options but had zero takers. Hopefully that has lit a fire under him.
Petracca was never leaving Melbourne this year, so there's that. Houston is a gun, but it never made sense for us.
I assume you're referring to Martin/Carroll/Owies/Kennedy as the four players. All of them have serious limitations to their game. Martin's is injuries. The rest is skill and foot speed. Everyone knows we are a slow team and in order to get faster types in we needed to make room in the team.
Especially since he isnt best 22 in actuality but will be to make Matt Clarke happyTbf I thought it was a joke when they originally reported it
Literally couldn't be happier we took Jagga over Houston, far more of a need for us than Houston.
How does losing 5 decently paid players not equate to having cap space now?
You already budgeted for most of them leaving before everyones new contracts. Only ones you wouldnt have is Owies and Kennedy . I do feel both happened to up TDKs offer to the 1 mill mark but still think Essendon will go insane and go crazy abvove that
Literally couldn't be happier we took Jagga over Houston, far more of a need for us than Houston.
Pies fans want to live in La La land making out as if we're under massive cap problems and we missed out on Houston because of it... Keep dreaming of our downfall campaigner
Who are the younger players? Always suspicous of stuff like this. If you had faith youd have just named them in that post. Seems to me more wishful thinking then anything with true substance
Crazy suggestion. Sam Draper will get that much, if not more. TDK will get much more
I think all Blues fans are aware Jagga isn't going to single handedly catapult us into a grand final lmao. Nor would Houston have.
You think he’s going to be paid more by Carlton than Cripps?
When in Premiership mode id rather the latter. Its a bad fit list profile wise.
We have plenty of quality options in the half back line, wasn't a need at all.
Id suggest with the word Restricted Free agent in the mix they wont have a choice in the matter
He'll be signed up by the bye for less than Cripps. Put ya house on it.
If he stays with Carlton he’ll stay for unders. Will either be that or a huge contract elsewhere, well in excess of $1m hence the question.
While this is a strong possibility i would add a disclaimer that this is not financial advice and general in nature
Are we? I think the more likely answer is the Pies fans are still feeling insecure that Houston wanted to go to the Blues over them, so in turn the Pies fans are desperate to make it seem like we made the biggest mistake of all time taking a kid instead.
