Eels Salary Cap MK III

[Glenn]

apparently Greenberg just said on 2SM that if watmough gets his retirement approved then his contract would come off the cap from that date onwards.

Watmough to announce retirement tomorrow.;-)

 

[Kornstar]

Watmough to announce retirement tomorrow.;-)

Hope so and let Paulo go to Raiders early on top of Morgan leaving could get us close.

 

[Glenn]

Hope so and let Paulo go to Raiders early on top of Morgan leaving could get us close.

Would get us under if my Maths is right..

 

[Jake the snake]

Hope so and let Paulo go to Raiders early on top of Morgan leaving could get us close.

Need to keep Paulo this year. He's a must keep. Fringe players like Gower and co maybe have to be moved on. And I say that with respect to Gower who's a solid player.

 

[Gronk]

Paul Kent said this the other day about Watmerkin

Until now, when players began to age, a club’s best action would be to do what they all do, which was try to offload him to the English Super League at a reduced contract and be encumbered with just a percentage of his contract on the cap, offsetting the rest in England. Not anymore.

Every NRL contract is now guaranteed for its duration. If a player retires prematurely through injury it puts the onus on the club to recoup their money from the insurer.

Poor clubs cannot afford to risk an extra half million dollars a year on a player who might not pass the insurance test.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...g/news-story/1c49ab5bd30fe893acda4157c32f6335

I wonder what he meant about poor clubs ? I thought we all were on the same salary cap with no one club having advantage over the other ?

 

[Kornstar]

Need to keep Paulo this year. He's a must keep. Fringe players like Gower and co maybe have to be moved on.

Sure but that may not be enough, Paulo might get us over the line but not Gower.

 

[The EELiminator]

i really hope this court challenge is based on a sound legal defense and not wasting valuable members funds which could otherwise go towards our million dollar fine on a last ditch hail mary with 0% of success trying to save their own skins

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

If Watmough's retirement is accepted and cap relief granted then we have a good case to put forward regarding retrospective relief.

As I said many, many, many pages ago - it is the key.

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However, Morgs cannot assist us getting the points back. He can get us under the cap for our next game but offers no assistance in terms of retrospective release because he was legitimately under our cap until this week, so he counts until this week.

 

[woddy]

Who is paying Morgs ? surely the Storm have taken half of what he was paid here a mid season transfer?

 

[El Diablo]

We tried telling them the truth and all we got was abuse.... 3 million dollars worth of rorts later and the end of the season have hopefully finally wake up. Pathetic!!

#goodgovernance lol

bring back Spags

 

[eels_fan]

Some clubs may need to use part of the NRL's annual grants to fund their club operations/junior leagues etc as opposed to using it all for their salary cap... Effectively lowering their cap if they can't top it up in some other way. That is my understanding anyways..

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Where can we get a hold of the Minority Report? There's something fishy about this pre-crime.

 

[yy_cheng]

Sure but that may not be enough, Paulo might get us over the line but not Gower.

Paulo may not be on much this year

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Who is paying Morgs ? surely the Storm have taken half of what he was paid here a mid season transfer?

Why would they pay half? What if we were desperate to clear some cap space, as seems likely?

Still, getting rid of one of our most highly paid players has to help a bit.

 

[woddy]

They'd have to pay something ,to want him.

 

[IFR33K]

Need to keep Paulo this year. He's a must keep. Fringe players like Gower and co maybe have to be moved on. And I say that with respect to Gower who's a solid player.

We need to move on a player that's not on our pay roll or in our plans next season. It will create unbalance if we attempt to move a player that's signed for 2017...

 

[Chipmunk]

Hope so and let Paulo go to Raiders early on top of Morgan leaving could get us close.

We don't have a team capable of winning 12 from 15 this season without Junior Paulo, so I don't see the point of doing that.

 

[Kornstar]

We don't have a team capable of winning 12 from 15 this season without Junior Paulo, so I don't see the point of doing that.

I don't agree with that.

Who would you suggest?

 

[yy_cheng]

I don't agree with that.

Who would you suggest?

Peats and teps

 

[Kornstar]

Peats and teps

You want to get rid of our hooker and lock?