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Dustin Martin
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I reckon we should just trade the early picks for ready made mids.
Tarranto or Green otherwise we will end up with another Higgins and Ellis
This, I cant understand why we cant buy the player we need... surely there is a way salary cap can be layered..... look at Carlton ffs how are they doing it, dont say brown paper bags because it is aint so
Especially after Astbury Houli and Rance are all gone.
Maybe the salaries weren't cut enough off Edwards Cotchin and Riewodlt to help to get someone in.
Not sure who else is eating away our cap.
Lynch & Martin both over a mill
Prestia over 700k.
Jack Cotchin Grimes BigV Edwards 600k
Nakas 500k
Graham Bolton 400k
Who else??
Not meaning any offence, but you probably weren't as muscular as Dusty was when he went into hospital, and muscle weighs a lot more than fat. There could well be some exaggeration to the figures, but it wouldn't surprise me that a professional athlete would lose a significant amount of weight from being bed ridden for such a long time and being prevented from the same physical activity they're used to.
Fingers crossed he heals up quickly and can get back to his best for next season.
That list would just about have it covered. We always knew we would pay a price down the track for Dusty and Tommy but oh it was so worth it!
People forget how instrumental Lynch was in the 2019 flag.
And by the way, we pay our elite players across the AFL way too much. It's not as if Franklin, Martin, Petracca etc would earn anything like half their current pay doing anything else. The AFL holds all the aces but has allowed payments that are way out of scale with the rest of Australian society. Team salay caps don't work. Individual salary caps just might solve many problems.
Very naive post.
Why on earth would you hold professional sports people up against the rest of society?
Do people pay to watch you work?
And as for AFL players getting payed too much? We’re losing half our kids to soccer and basketball because we can’t pay them enough. Would you like to see our great game disappear because we can’t attract athletes?
Is it naive to believe 500,000 would be enough to attract players to the AFL?
The simple reason I hold players up to the rest of society is because people on low wages are supporting clubs who spend too much money.
A mate of mine saw Dusty the other day & was pretty shocked at how much weight he'd dropped.
The game generates a lot of money because people freely choose to pay to watch it. The players are a major part of that, so they are entitled to a fair chunk of the profits generated. Sure they earn way more than the rest of society, but that is because the rest of society value them that highly. You personally might not value them that highly, but it is not for you or anyone else to tell others what to value.
Mitch Robinson always wanted to be famous for something. .... hope it's not for ruining a great career.A mate of mine saw Dusty the other day & was pretty shocked at how much weight he'd dropped.
Karma awaits!
I've argued this before but it is the AFL executives that get paid too much, not the players.
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