Ryles states he is is no rush to make signings! I am sorry, but we have an L plate coach who sees no rush? Really, we are second last on a ladder. We will be lucky to avoid the spoon. Unless something changes we have no change on last season, despite the fact that I do see improvements in the squad, but we are still way off the mark. I am stunned by this statement and we must have so much money available for the right players to improve this squad yet we appear to be doing risky squat! I truly hope there are some things going on in the background but if we keep status quo, we are in a word of pain for years to come. The fact that we still have no decent replacement for Dylan Brown says it all. I am getting beyond frustrated. We lack serious impact forwards and a quality 6 and centre. Are we just sitting and hoping or is the Club going to come up with something? One concerned and frustrated life long eels fan here.
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Arnold, Cumberland Eel, Frank the Tank and Wiz.
What a grouping on the same page of a blog.....well the brains trust has arrived, get ready everyone.
With top line operators like those 4 we have nothing to worry about.
Geniuses....
Says the biggest idiot bar none on here.
Poppa thinks he's a genius because he jumps on after a post to ridicule the opinions of others. That's not intelligent that's a troll fuckstick
Couldn't have said it better Wiz.
You have to spend 95% of your cap every season. There is no building a huge bank account balance as the value doesn't roll over each year.
What's 5% of 11.5 million ? If you play short every season which we seem to do , which is the equivalent of one good player , with interest your making what an extra 600k ? How are we spending our whole cap this season ? We aren't. No way on this Earth have we accounted for every cent in talent .
What I'd like to know is , are there any loopholes around this rule ? So if you release a million dollar player in say June ( example ) , are you expected to find another half million dollar player for that year to account for the savings you've just made ? I feel like this is where we are penny pinching.
some small loopholes exist Wiz, in the form of front loading. An example could be
ie Moses on $1m each year. We can pay him say $1.2m this year and $800k the year after for example using your cap this year on next years payment. There are certain rules about it but this happens a lot. This gives you an extra $200k to pay someone else next year. etc You do this a few times and you can get an advantage for a season.
In our case we front load players and then they jostle for a release in their final year or refuse to play 😂
No I get this , but as I was saying the other day in the " front loader " conversation, it creates a player vaccum as all of a sudden we find ourselves with a loaded squad all needing to be paid full freight after the " advantage " season is done.
We must be millions under this season , there's got to be a loophole around spending the entire cap. It'd be fucking reckless to have spent our entire cap on the players we have listed. Maybe we've paid Moses for the next 3 years in advance .
A Rookie coach that has a team running equal last after 14 rounds, must surely be a bit more anxious then what he states "in no rush to make signings."
Lets hope that means he is after quality and he's prepared to ensure we have the cap $$ for that quality player when he becomes available.
Cobbo, Staggs, Mahoney, Smith, Hass, Tino, Fifita all have get out clauses, are off contract, or are being shopped around. Some handy talent right there. I have zero confidence though that our recruitment team can negotiate and close a deal for a player that is wanted by other clubs.
And there could be more in the next few months BE. Some even better than what you listed.
Hope so, i'd hate to waste our warchest on has beens or maybes.
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