Eels Salary Cap MK III

[Eelementary]

This is surreal. I never imagined I'd feel this way about my club.

 

[IFR33K]

I still think the NRL determined that all our TPA's have to be included in the salary cap, which is the only reason that we are now over the salary cap for this year, just yesterday and they informed the club of this at 7.30am this morning. Before then I believe the club still believed it was under the cap, which to be honest they probably had every right to believe at the time.

Sharpy and his mates are incompetent fools, but I think they were genuine in what they said.

Maybe sharp didn't understand the term, 'arms length'.

 

[Parra47]

Do we save anything if the five members do the honerable thing??? Is there any benefit or advantage???

Of course we do. If they go we still have a chance, no matter how slight, of making the finals. if they refuse to go we have no chance. And guaranteed the NRL will make things hard for us as long as they stay.
If those five are the ones who have caused this terrible mess they must go anyway!

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Who do you think would fund the football team if it wasn't funded by the PLC?

Well, the alternate is some form of private ownership. But obviously that comes with its own issues, and there would need to be covenants in any such deal fixing the base of the club etc. However, I can't imagine in what sense it could be worse than what we've copped for some time. The very fact that f**kwits (well meaning or otherwise) can 'take over' effective control of an NRL franchise by playing silly buggers at the AGM of a registered club should make the source of our current problems pretty obvious. And I'm not anti-Sharp or anyone in particular.

 

[Noise]

This is surreal. I never imagined I'd feel this way about my club.

Yep. I can handle 50 point floggings, I can handle wooden spoons, i can handle choking in big games, I can handle 30 years of nothing but I can not cop cheating!

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

You can be over the cap today through the total sum of your top 25 player contracts being more than the salary cap which you are obliged to pay. You can be under the cap tomorrow by negotiating releases of those players and their contracts and then replacing them with much cheaper players.

It aint rocket science

It's not rocket science. Unless we've already paid out $7.25 million or whatever, we're not over the cap. We're only projected to go over the cap. Given we have until mid season to change the roster, it's impossible to say for sure how much we will spend on players in 2016.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Maybe sharp didn't understand the term, 'arms length'.

Or maybe he is still wondering just whose arm is referred to? If it was Phil Mann that would be a very long arm, but if it was Paul Taylor's....not so much.

 

[Chipmunk]

One of these days someone is going to explain to me how we can be both under the cap and over the cap in the same year.

Day 1 - TPAs are not considered part of our salary cap
Day 2 - NRL determines that TPAs are to be considered part of our salary cap.
Day 3 and beyond - Players who are part our salary cap on both Day 1 and 2 are for a multitude of reasons (Watmough retires, Morgan goes to Melbourne) no longer part of our salary cap.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Even if we are cap compliant???

Yes. So he says.

 

[Chipmunk]

Toddles says unless they go we can't get points. f**k him.

Well this aspect is now part of court proceedings. I'd suggest before too much longer it won't be the only part.

I'd like to know for how long the NRL knew that we were over the salary cap?

 

[Chipmunk]

It's all about whether TPAs are counted under the cap.

Which we should at least let a few lawyers argue about in a court for a while.

 

[Chipmunk]

Well, the alternate is some form of private ownership. But obviously that comes with its own issues, and there would need to be covenants in any such deal fixing the base of the club etc. However, I can't imagine in what sense it could be worse than what we've copped for some time. The very fact that f**kwits (well meaning or otherwise) can 'take over' effective control of an NRL franchise by playing silly buggers at the AGM of a registered club should make the source of our current problems pretty obvious. And I'm not anti-Sharp or anyone in particular.

I don't disagree with your original thoughts, but who in this country, who supports Parra, has got the funds to fund a team capable of winning the comp?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Day 1 - TPAs are not considered part of our salary cap
Day 2 - NRL determines that TPAs are to be considered part of our salary cap.
Day 3 and beyond - Players who are part our salary cap on both Day 1 and 2 are for a multitude of reasons (Watmough retires, Morgan goes to Melbourne) no longer part of our salary cap.

The only thing that matters about the cap is that you spend less than x amount of dollars on players for that season.

And afaik we still have the ability to affect that.

 

[Chipmunk]

Yep. I can handle 50 point floggings, I can handle wooden spoons, i can handle choking in big games, I can handle 30 years of nothing but I can not cop cheating!

wrong comment....

 

[ek999]

I still think the NRL determined that all our TPA's have to be included in the salary cap, which is the only reason that we are now over the salary cap for this year, just yesterday and they informed the club of this at 7.30am this morning. Before then I believe the club still believed it was under the cap, which to be honest they probably had every right to believe at the time.

Sharpy and his mates are incompetent fools, but I think they were genuine in what they said.

You keep saying it but that doesn't make it true. The NRL would be in breach of the CBA of they were to do that

 

[Eelementary]

Yep. I can handle 50 point floggings, I can handle wooden spoons, i can handle choking in big games, I can handle 30 years of nothing but I can not cop cheating!

Parramatta has been something that has given me joy for a long time - even when we finished last.

I'm afraid my feelings towards the club now are anger/hatred, for the embarrassment caused, and complete indifference.

These f**king imbeciles - the gutless, dickless f**ks - who run our club have ruined our season, our reputation and our roster.

I will never forgive those merkins responsible.

 

[Mr Pmatta]

i want the club to expose the salary cap as the farce it is

The court injunction is for those 5 f**kwits board members who were punted, the are fighting to keep their jobs not have any points reduced, won't matter if we get below cap if they are fighting will still not earn any points.

 

[Noise]

It's not rocket science. Unless we've already paid out $7.25 million or whatever, we're not over the cap. We're only projected to go over the cap. Given we have until mid season to change the roster, it's impossible to say for sure how much we will spend on players in 2016.

So by your theory you could sign the entire Australian team, win a stack of games in the first half of the season and then as long as you release enough players before June 30 you are under the cap?

 

[Gronk]

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[Swiftstylez]

Don't forgive, just accept that it was nice to see the Eels play in a Grand Final in 2001 and pretend we won 2009. These thoughts will soothe you to your eternal slumber.