amber_fluid wrote:How so?Jim05 wrote:tigerpie wrote:The AFL and clubs made a rod for their own back when they started stuffing around with the TPP and offering front or back ended contracts, deferred payments etc.Jim05 wrote:[quote="amber_fluid"]
Small businesses are taking a hit maybe the players should too.
At least the senior players on good coin anyway.
$600k a year down to $480k won’t send them broke.
I can understand people asking for a 20% cut across the board but with so many different contract structures it’s near on impossible. If I’m in the final year of a back ended contract there is no way I’m giving up 20% of my pay
Then you'd be a greedy prick!
Let’s just say I’m on a $2m contract over 5 years and the club comes to me and says we are in TPP strife and instead of taking $400k a year can you help us out and take $200k each year for the next 4 years and $1.2m in your final year when we are better placed. So you agree to do that and you have taken the lower wage for 4 years and then in the final year the AFL tell you they want to cut 20% off $1.2m I’m telling you to get stuffed and I don’t care if that makes me greedy or not.
The AFL and the clubs created the mess it’s up to them to fix it
I’m sure the poor bastards won’t starve if you take 20% off their 1.2 million.
That was 1.2 million $$$$$$[/quote]I’m all for taking a hit off this years wages but in my scenario you are taking a hit for your last 4 years aswell.
That needs to be taken into account when the AFL are making these decisions. Not every contract is the same