daysofourlives wrote:I took it as being a salry cap of 20k for the season with a maximum of 400 per game for any one player.
Arn't the Crows top ups only getting 100 per game.
This would make the deals pretty similar on that front
The Adelaide Crows'
deal is that top-up players taken from other SANFL clubs get a big $100 per game, but top-ups taken from outside the SANFL system get $400 per game. No mention of whether the SANFL top-ups can or will continue to get paid by their SANFL club. No mention of whether the Crows are allowed to pay any top-up from anywhere a sign-on fee/ guaranteed weekly stipend (nor if they
are allowed, what the net limit is, if there is one).
No explanation in the Crows deal of why, if there aren't sign-on fees/ stipends etc, any 'fringe league' player who didn't have rocks in their heads would agree to be listed with the Crows 2s. Imagine: you've battled your way into the top half-dozen reserves players in your SANFL club and have even made your league debut. You're hoping that 2014 is going to be your year to really push up into the league side. If you can manage to get picked more often than you miss, then realistically you have to expect that your total payments are going to be in the realm of $7–$10,000 a year (i.e. somewhere around half of the mean per-league-player salary cap, reflecting your junior status in the team). Unless the player has insane stars in their eyes and just thinks, 'I'm going to hang out with Tex Walker and become the next Rory Sloane', who would give that up for, 'Well, there's a fair chance that you'll be able to play some league games for us— we can't guarantee you anything, and sometimes you may have to be pulled out or called up last minute, depending on AFL injuries— but we see a real hope that you'll be able to crack 10 games for us this year. And if you do, you'll collect a big thousand dollars!'?
No mention of any salary cap at all in the Crows' deal— so as far as the current documentation goes, they can pay their "leadership player" $200k a season.
If the Power 2nds salary cap really is $20k + $400/player/game, then based on the maths in the previous post, everyone of interest on the Port Adelaide Magpies 2013 roster is gone.
Some may see a giant conspiracy in all of these gaps and failings; but given how this whole thing has unfolded, I just see a giant cock-up where they're making up random and inconsistent rules as they go.
Don't get me wrong, Port Adelaide are doing the wrong thing by going down this path. And if they throw away everything that makes them Port Adelaide—i.e. a club that's grown out of, and is intimately connected with, the suburb of Port Adelaide and immediately surrounding suburbs—and just turn into Brand Power, they'll dearly regret it in the long (or even medium) term. But the SANFL can't treat unlikes alike and call it fairness. Port Adelaide Magpies have a fully functioning league team with a full league team roster of players— let alone their zone, reserves and U/18 sides. All of it is controlled by the AFL-dominated entity, the PAFC. Adelaide Crows have none of those things. To effectively require Port Adelaide to throw all of that stuff away virtually overnight, and permanently, just to accumulate another 12 to 15 AFL-listed players as playing for Port Magpies at SANFL level, is insanity. And of course, even greater insanity if Port agree.
