- Heaps of cap room.
- Add to that, the cap is going up by a further $2 million.
- Destination club cred' - young, exciting and on the rise.
- Our rebuild is at the stage where it's time to finish it off with some raiding.
- Yoda Bains to make deals happen.
Here are some possible combinations.
Please note, all offers are approximations, as I don't have access to who is currently being paid what, so as to more properly work out what we'd need to pay.
In the interests of simplicity, I haven't considered whom we could trade out for extra draft picks or to sweeten a deal.
For the full list of 'what is available' see http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/out_ ... ct_players
So, lets shop.
Kelly - for that Dawk's pick. $1 mil a year. Could we get him for $900K, with sweetners(?)
Whitfield - for our remaining 1st rounder. Shouldn't break the bank, as he hasn't done too much yet, but rumoured to want out.
(We'd arguably be paying unders for Kelly, slight overs for Whitfield - so balances out.)
Rockcliff - restricted FA. Offer $600K, a flag, and redemption to him. (If the Teddies match the $$$, which is unlikely, we can always frontload to make it harder for them.)
Dusty - $1.2 mil and a flag to him.
We may as well avail ourselves of FAs, as they don't cost us draft picks.
If (when) some of these fall through:
Offer the Kelly deal to Jake Lever, or McGovern (Crones), or Weitering (Carlscum), or Petracca. (Offer less $$$ for McGovern - defenders command less $$$.)
Offer the Whitfield deal to Harry McKay (Carlscum), or Cockatoo (Hillbillies), or Hopper (Wogans), or Weideman (Dreamons), or Dan Rioli (Tuggers), or Zak Jones (Swines), or Zac Dawson (I'm kidding).
Offer the Rocky deal to Zarharkis.
That's the starter pack. What else could be on our shopping list...?