Billy
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
He'd be cheering about that - probably out all night celebrating.
2017/2018 Knights Player signing speculation
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I would not count Adam Blair, Matt Gillet, Alex Glenn, Jordan Kahu, Andrew McCullough, Josh McGuire, Corey Oates, James Roberts, Sam Thiaday (maybe Korbin Sims) all average unproven players. That makes 10 players, then another 17 on top of that.
danknights
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Those origin and international players are only on 100k. Fit em in easy!!!!
cowboyman
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Third party payments are also included in that. Not all coming out of the salary cap.
Broncos have the most advantages in the comp yet still haven't won the comp in over a decade. They should be winning it every 2 years.
danknights
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
So those mentioned would be like 400 salary 600 club funded "tpa" haha
While I am aware there are two types of TPA, I was under the impression that the ones that aren't under the salary cap weren't supposed to be arranged before a player signed a deal or influence his decision because there is more money involved. They were only supposed to be arranged after the player has signed. And anything TPA arranged to sway a players decision should be included in the cap.
Which is why I find it weird how the Bird deal went down with the Broncos arranging a last minute TPA to get him over there.
If I'm not mistaken shouldn't that also count under the salary cap?
If say, Bird was offered $950k at the sharks and $850k at the Broncos, but he took the lesser money to play under Wayne Bennett or whatever, signed the contract...then say "XYZ Inc" a month later that has zero affiliation with the Broncos approached his manager saying "we want to sponsor/pay you for $150k, be a guest speaker at our functions, have our name attached when your name is read out at home games" then I understand that would be fair game
But if the Broncos were interested in Bird and say the Sharks offered 900k, the Knights offered $1m, and the Broncos in their 'cap' could only afford $800k but then said to his manager 'look we can only pay you 800k, but you'll get $300k from ABC Inc over each year, to be a guess speaker at functions and endorse our brand' then my understanding that is the illegal part and must also be included in the cap even if they don't want to.
How is it fair if this last minute TPA the Broncos used isn't counted in the cap? When the Sharks didn't have. Unless those rules have changed since then.
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Bird is 700k cap, 300k TPA. Widely reported Broncs have north of $2m in TPAs.
The Broncos can legitimately offer Bird $700k and tell his manager XYZ Inc are interested in providing a TPA. They are not meant to have any more to do with it than that, but how do you police it?
I'm in favour of TPAs, getting more money into the game is a good thing. If the Raiders and Cows can get in on the scam in the two smallest markets in the comp we just need to be smarter.
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Grandpa Joe
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
It's pretty epic alright, shame they won't bring back Schubert, guy was a real piece of work but seemed to keep people in line.
Grandpa Joe
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Far out mate his a current Australian rep and looks classy in the jumper, will go for big $$$$. As well would we want the Mundine stable near Newie?
Tasgirl
Tasgirl
Beatell
Darren Albert
Most clubs are close to the cap already may not need to pay as much as normal I wouldn't want to pay too much for him but atleast may an offer. Yeah not keen on Mundine at all.
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Ethan
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Trouble here is not enough companies and Rich people backing our club a couple of years ago the Bronco's came out and said they were turning people away that wanted to help with TPA's ...If the people there want to help theyre team like that good on them , I certainly wouldn't begrudge us that situation if it was the other way around ....I read today that Gagai is seriously considering Melbourne but where does that leave Will Chambers who is also off contract ...
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Sharks got plenty since Bird left. Tigers too
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Maybe they play gags in the halves?
Watching the AUS vs NZ game got me thinking. It would be great to have some taller ctr/wings for our halves to kick too. I really hope we can get graham and skd cheap. I.e if Graham is on a million dollar contract at the dogs I hope we can get away with paying 3/4 of that 750k. Maybe wishful thinking. And skd after his cocaine stuff hopefully we could drop 100k off his contract because of that. I like gagai but I think we need to let him go of he starts asking $700k + to play centre.
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