The Bedge wrote:What is a soft cap?
The football departments at each club has a "soft cap" that they run to, $9.5m, it's not to say you can't spend more than that, you can spend as much as you like, but anything over the $9.5m will be taxed.
It's hurt lots of assistant coaches the most, blokes like Ben Hart, Brett Montgomery and Mark Williams all left the AFL system for a year ( or in Williams' case longer ) because they couldn't get a job that was in a department under the "cap".
It's really to stop the likes of Collingwood spending $20m on their department ( because they can ) and then the likes of the Bulldogs do the same to "keep up with the Jones'" and compete.