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Our Salary Cap

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Crazy Costanza

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Why is it that everyone in the football world seems to think the RFC have no room in the salary cap to recruit a player like Judd?

The last time I checked, the RFC was not a publicly listed company for this info to be open to the public domain.

Admitedly, reading some other forums, many Carlton supporters are set in their own minds that Judd could enter the PSD and we would have to pass on him because of our Salary Cap so-called restrictions.

I just don't get it.. How many superstars do we have at Tigerland that are on the big $$$? Not many I don't think. Richo and Bowden are/should be on the veterans list next year, whilst Lids, Tambling, Polak, Johnson, Pets and Newman would be on reasonable contracts but not earth shattering.

Does anybody know the absolute true TPP figure at Richmond? Of course not. Very few people would.

I'd love to draft Judd moreso for the fact to prove all these 'so called' experts like Tim Watson wrong that if we want Judd and he becomes available - we CAN and WILL take him in a flash.
 
I don't understand how this could be the case either, unless we have a whole lot of front loaded contracts.
Pretty sure Richo went off the veterans list in 2006 as we had to include his entire salary to make the minimum 92.5% of TPP for the year. Not much has changed since then, if anything Cogs & Brown are now on reduced contracts, Gaspar is gone, as are Hall, Knobel & Kingsley. Krakouer's ridiculous contract will be gone at the end of the year and half the list are kids on either AFL specified contracts out of the draft or their first negotiated contract.
 
I think it's more a case of not having the cash at the moment. March has turned the finances around by prudently basing our budgets on worst case scenarios i.e. minimum memberships, few wins with small crowds, low sponsorhip levels etc, and by doing so, we have produced profits because we have performed above these worst case scenarios.

I think they would be reluctant to offer Judd the type of contact he wants, based on potential incomes that his arrival might deliver. That hasn't been their way for the last couple of years. I believe they will be re-directing money into the football department rather than channel it into one player.
 
If Carlton thought we had the money then there is no way they'd let him go into the PSD.

If Richmond are saying they don't have the money then it may simply be a ploy............you join the dots.
 
Does anybody know the absolute true TPP figure at Richmond? Of course not. Very few people would.
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All the footy operations staff at the AFL are aware of our TPP payments, loose lips sink ships.
 
i was of the understanding that we were only paying 92.5 % of the maximum payments. due to our financial position we have been doing this since spud vacated the coaches position. this being the case we could easily afford to fit judd in our salary cap.
 
realfooty Steve Butler and Jake Niall | October 4, 2007

RICHMOND has ramped up the pressure on Carlton to come up with a suitable deal with West Coast by claiming it will have the salary cap room and financial backing to take Chris Judd in the pre-season draft.

The former Eagles captain, who is returning to Melbourne after six years in Perth, revealed on Tuesday he wanted to continue his career with the Blues.

But with West Coast and Carlton at a stand-off over the Blues' No. 1 pick in the national draft, the Tigers could still get Judd at the pre-season draft on December 11.

The Blues have the second pick in the pre-season draft and could get Judd for nothing if Richmond was unable to fit Judd in its salary cap.

West Coast will today have its first trade talks with Carlton, Eagles recruiting manager Trevor Woodhouse saying last night he would meet Carlton football operations manager Stephen Icke about Judd at the draft camp in Canberra.

Tigers football director Greg Miller and West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett have already held discussions about Judd — another indication that Richmond is positioning itself as a player in the Judd trade.

Miller said yesterday the club was focused on its youth policy but could take Judd if West Coast and the Blues could not agree on a deal next week.

"Ninety-nine times out of 100 in these cases Carlton would do the deal," Miller said.

"I can understand West Coast wanting No. 1, but Carlton will have to make the decision and we're not involved in the processes behind the scenes.

"We're not focusing on it at all, but we've made preparations and we're not too close to the salary cap in that regard and there's no financial preclusions on us at any level."
 
Of course we have room in the salary cap. We've been paying well under it for some years now.

Can we afford to pay the full amount? With a million dollar profit you'd think so. Plus, a sports business journalist with BRW said on SEN yesterday that Judd could be worth $2 million to Carlton through merchandise, sponsorships etc.

The only problem would be putting all our eggs in the one basket, with little room to resign our kids when they command more $$$ in future years.
 
Tony Braxton-Hicks said:
The only problem would be putting all our eggs in the one basket, with little room to resign our kids when they command more $$$ in future years.
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By that stage we won't have Brown, Richardson, Johnson, Bowden & Simmonds.

We'll worry about that when the time comes but it shouldn't stop us getting Judd now.
 
Tony Braxton-Hicks said:
The only problem would be putting all our eggs in the one basket, with little room to resign our kids when they command more $$$ in future years.
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Apart from Lids and Foley, our kids haven't really shown that they will command huge $$$ anyway
 
Intresting excrecise, get ourlist out and look in what the direction the money is being spent.

It shouldn't be that hard. A think in the AFLPA charter there is a minuimin payment for each player depending on how many years they have been on a list. If someone could find that charter it would make it a easy task.
 
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