on the rails wrote:am Bays wrote: To be competitive they are going to have pay more to attract the calibre of players they will lose or if he is delisted and stays in Adelaide I'm sure Tambling will want more than $200 a game. So Sturt are going to have arguably find an extra $20 000 a year minimum to put a league side on the field in 2014
They wil have to find at least double that based on the NAFC allocation this year for AFL players and the "replacement real money cost" for 2014 and we have well under half per game based on this season compared to the SFC.
I agree my $200 a game is based on the minimum league player payment as I understand it to be. So the minimum is ~$20 000 based on playing juniors and amateurs/country recruits. To replace them quality, as you say, they will have to at least double that.
For all SANFL clubs the AFL players are merely a token amount against the cap. Next year all SANFL clubs will have to find real $$$ to replace those players lost (fair enough too as they aren't our players) and for some clubs, not just Sturt, that will be an issue.