Just a thought. You look at house prices nowadays and you pick an area you like, peaceful, convenient, good transport connections and then you go looking for your dream house only to realize it is way beyond your financial means.
You think to yourself, I'm not going to pay that much to buy that house. It's not worth that much. I remember 5 years ago, it was only 60% of that value.
But in reality when you realize the market and economy has moved on, it is worth around that much give or take 10%.
This is what I believe is also happening to the player's salary. We say he's not worth that much and so drop out. But in reality, that is the going rate nowadays and other teams are willing to pay for them so the market is there.
Teams like Manly have probably realized that and will pay the best dollar for what they want. They have budgeted to spend that amount and so they will spend it. How it's allocated it's up to them.
It goes down to, pay a Simpson or a Hill $500K because we will have a higher chance of winning the title or no, that's too much, we'll try to make do with Zeb and Green. But it reduces our chance for the title.
We have the dosh, we are short of a 5/8th or Prop, I say go for at least 1 of the big names even if we are paying overs. For the remainder of the dosh, depending on performance, give out a bonus next year, pro-rata of course, Hindy the most, for number of games won and individual performances.
Unless we want to be stingy and keep the money to pay for pokies tax or something else.
