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Ben Rutten

The Big Richo said:
The way the contract works is the club has to pay the agreed salary or make up the difference if the employee takes another job.

So if Rutten was due to earn $600,000 as a base and stay unemployed they pay the full whack. If he takes a job working full time at Woolworths on a checkout and earns $65,000 they owe him $535,000.

The obvious thing to do would be to sign him as a coach for $1 and let Essendon fund your coach but this has been raised before and the AFL has made it clear they will not allow a contract that is not in keeping with industry practice. So they will look at what other assistant coaches with similar skills and experience are getting and Rutten's deal would need to be in the same ballpark.

Effectively we might get him for a bit skinnier rate than normal but it won't be a huge amount. The only real winner financially is Rutten who will paid 600k to do a 350k job.
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I’d be staying at home for a year practicing piano
 
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spook said:
I'd like to see Truck take a year off, travel the world with his family and start an Instagram account called 'Postcards to Esserdum', in which he posts photos of himself at iconic landmarks and beautiful settings, with added text to note the score from Essington's latest loss, and how much they're paying him for his walk up Machu Picchu or dinner at the Ritz.
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Yeah you win, that’s a brilliant idea
 
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RoarEmotion said:
So he can take a year off and get paid 600k or work and get paid 600k? This doesn’t make sense either. What’s the incentive to work?

Separately you reckon woolworths checkout pays 65k? More like 40k would be my guess.
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He holds all the cards because Essendon terminated his contract without cause. He could do a Clarkson and have a year off but some people prefer to work or want to remain in the industry.

Guilty as charged in terms of not being connected with the common folk.

tigertim said:
Can you say “Bens a development coach with the VFL side”? What’s that worth, $50k? Or would the AFL monitor his VFL/AFL involvement? (I know the club wouldn’t do this, just asking.)
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Legends of 2017 said:
What about creating a new “ unique” position? Would the AFL have any say on what that would pay?
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I think you would have to be very careful. He is going to have to have a formal position description and if you tried to do something like that I'm sure the AFL would take an interest. Ultimately it would likely be more of a detriment to his value to the organisation I think.

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I'd like to see Truck take a year off, travel the world with his family and start an Instagram account called 'Postcards to Esserdum', in which he posts photos of himself at iconic landmarks and beautiful settings, with added text to note the score from Essington's latest loss, and how much they're paying him for his walk up Machu Picchu or dinner at the Ritz.
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That's basically what Clarkson has done. His final up yours to Hawthorn is signing to start at North officially from November 1 so he gets the full 900k. Hawthorn are now paying him 150k to coach North for the next 2 months.
 
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seven said:
Word on the street is he’ll be going to Port.
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That’s a shame. Thought he would have been good for our backline. Who will replace Kingsley? Would really like to see some real quality introduced to our assistant coaching ranks. We are a bit thin at the moment. Pay the tax if we have to. We have the money
 
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There will be plenty of good assistants around. No need to panic
 
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Im thinking Teague will take over Kingsley's position and we will get Lambert to become an assistant coach
 
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Massive get.

Our backline was a big worry this year as we were unusually very disorganized and leaky.

Hopper and Taranto will go a long way to fixing our clearance work and Teague has done a great job with our forward play.

Great stuff.
 
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