Useless wrote:OnSong wrote:Just follow the rules and you won't have a problem.
I think you are missing the point. You obviously do a lot for your club so well done, but unfortunately some clubs cannot find the people with the time to be able to do this as you.
I would think that your club would be in the minority in not only reporting correctly to the ATO, but in that they have minimal payments (not syaing this is a bad thing). some clubs need the extra players to be competitive and have to pay to get these. Success breeds success so you try and re-build a club around winning games. Its very hard to improve with out recruitment.
You have the advantage of being the biggest town in your league so the ability to gain juniors as well as other players is alot easier. This isnt just an attack on you or your club but just trying to argue my point.
How do you think teams in your league like hamley, united and perhaps virginia are going to survive if they cant pay players more than they can get at a club down the road from where they live. I find it hard to see under the new system how teams get better.
Yes there are some clubs that have not paid there players under a sustainable model. I feel if your club can generate the revenue and do it sustainably then they should be able to spend what they want or what ever they see fit.
Looking at Hamley as an example why did the league give them more points? they gave them enough rope to hang themselves. as much blame should be on the league as there is on the club.
another argument is to put the money into juniors, what can you honestly spend to gain juniors? do we start paying them? spare me. you gain juniors by winning games. you run football clubs to win games and premierships.
You can define a club's success with flags, but the one with the flag at the moment ain't having so much success now is it?
So by your reckoning, success breeds success, I think that's not entirely true, otherwise everyone would be at Hamley Bridge still, right?
I think by bringing in the cap, the exorbitant price players are asking will come down.
Every club will come under the cap, I feel there will be plenty of players out there not able to get money at metro clubs and seek country opportunities.
If anything, I would think the points system is far more restrictive, as club's are effectively punished for their success by limiting the number of players they can recruit.
You used the word sustainable. Problem is there are people out there who chase short term success at the cost of the sustainability of their club.
Sure, we're the biggest town in the area, but we also have two satellite clubs hacking into the population, as Mallala probably does too.
Mallala is the most successful in terms of flags but I'd consider their junior and senior depth as more of a reason for their success, than out and out recruitment of guns etc. Easy to say I guess. I accept there are other perspectives to it. Just want to see it in action before we declare it a failure.