plugger66 wrote:SuperDuper wrote:good idea imo to get jolly to the club for no cost.
Great spread of rucks on our list with Jolly ....Hiclkey Stanley and Pierce are all still young
Jolly to play a handful of games when needed
It does cost. it costs us a pick in the draft or the delisting of a contracted player. It always costs something. Understand why they are doing it but not sure we need to do it. Certainly doesnt worry me what sort of guy he is. Im sure we have other dickheads on our list.
Clearly Plugger, I was referring to draft picks when I said it will cost us nothing. We just add him to our list without losing a draft pick in any of the 2013 drafts.
As for his salary, we need to pay 95% of the salary cap (or some such minimum amount) .. I cant see how we can reach this amount if Fisher and Dal leave, even one of them... so I would guess total salary payments will not increase if he comes, once they juggle all the contracts to make sure we pay the full 95%...
As for the list, if it means a player gets delisted and even has a contract payed out.. then so be it... again we can probably do this and still be at the minimum of the salary cap....All our players were given opportunities this year.. Some look like they are not AFL standard..
I would not be surprised if TDL is moved on, for example.. if you want you can call that a cost.... but I would attest that it would be paying peanuts.. compared to the high cost of using a high draft pick for a replacement ruck (eg on Longer)
And we also get as a gain a lot of experience to pass on to our young ruck trio and indeed to our entire young playing group
So: cost-benefit analysis seems very positive to me