70s sainter wrote:Everyone seems to accept salary cap pressure, and having no money left to pay up and coming players as purely a result of success etc.
But the truth is its mismanagement pure and simple.
We need another big man forward.
Walsh was shown the ropes in the backline moving him forward towards the end of the season , so coaching wise it looked the right way to go.
Then when hes prime to step up our list manager or whoever is in charge of pay says " by the way , we have no spare money to give him"
It seems a bit amatuer.
Maybe hes not worth 300k, but at least if we could have offered him 200-250 it wouldnt have gone that far.
God i hope he doesnt end up being a star forward.
All this, especially the highlighted part.
And if anyone tells me that in a so-called "professional" organisation we couldn't have worked out a way to find $100K, or so, I think I'll puke. It's not like we had to find $500K. I mean surely we could have re-negotiated one or two contracts in the next week or so (before our salary cap deadline), so that they were structured differently (perhaps back-ended more), so that we could free up the required coin to fit Tommy in in the short term.
With the likes of Hayes and Milne over 30, you'd think they'll retire in a couple of years and that will then free up a lot of space in the cap. That space could have been used to pay someone like Roo his extra $50K then, instead of next year, or the one after. I doubt he'll notice the difference between $950K and a mil next year, if he's sure he'll get that $50K a couple of years down the track. Many successful teams take actual pay cuts to keep the list together, so surely delaying a portion of the payments for a couple of years, for one or two who are already loaded (rich), wouldn't have been too much to ask.
Now, after putting a couple of years into developing Tommy, we have to find ourselves another "key forward" pretty damn quickly, at a time when we're unlikely to have a high draft pick any time soon, as Kosi and Roo are starting to show their age.
This whole thing reeks of incompetence. Terribly disappointing.
YOU GET WHAT YOU SETTLE FOR.