Wow - your mail is way off the mark and incredibly inflated guys.
I would think we are more like half of that.
Comparing to Uraidla, Lobey, Mt Barker, Ironbank - and now TV to name a few.
As I mentioned before we are quite lucky that the players who we do look after are not mercenaries and are playing for the right reasons.
if we hadn't gone into Central we would have lost quite a few to Central clubs for the level of footy played and they were offering a lot more money than us.
The guys have a point to prove that we are competitive with a relatively unchanged side from Country.
They were also sick of flogging sides by 100 points and playing some weeks against teams a long way away.
Let's not kid ourselves fellas, no one has a clue what other clubs are paying their players so why float rumours that are completely off the mark?
Gotta agree with this, but it'll still get a run every year.
At the risk of sounding like 'incentivising' is the ONLY way to go, when it comes to HFL rep honours, what if the clubs with players that bothered to don the HFL jumper got $200 (or whatever). That's THE CLUB gets that. Otherwise, really, is there much drive for clubs putting up their best players with the risk of injury for zero premiership points?
The players picked were given petrol money with enough left over to buy a carton of grog and a packet of chips