PatowalongaPirate wrote:A friend of mine sent this email out today.
To anyone who wants to bring this up again….
I actually want the cost of living allowance gone, just so people stop whinging.
They get under 10% extra, even though any job in Sydney would pay 20%+ more than the same job in Adelaide.
The fact is, Sydney have lost (or are going to lose) the salaries of Mattner, Bolton, Morton, Mumford and White. Even without the additional money they would be able to get Buddy.
Plus, people think they just have the $900k just sitting there ready for this kind of stuff. It is spread across the players. They already got Tippett last year supposedly with that money anyway, so how is it paying for Buddy? Given Buddy and Tippett will now earn 20% of Sydney’s cap, they probably do receive 20% of the additional allowance, but so what? Take $100k per season off both of their contracts and they would still be wearing Sydney guernseys next year. Even if the whole cap was used on Tippett and Buddy, $450k each, Sydney has still found the room in their cap to pay the rest of those contracts which would still be about $1.2 million. Where did that money come from? Good management.
People are jealous that Sydney have managed to get sustained success because they are better at drafting and recruiting than anyone else. They took Kennedy, Mumford and Richards from teams that barely gave them a chance, and made them all guns. They got Goodes at pick 50 something, and Hanneberry at pick 30 something. They find players like Rampe, Alex Johnson, Nick Smith, Mike Pyke, Nick Malceski etc that other clubs all could have recruited, and give them a chance and develop them to be decent players. Sydney haven’t had the top picks like Hawthorn (Buddy, Roughead, Hodge) Collingwood (Pendlebury and Thomas), and St Kilda (Riewoldt, Kosy, Ball) so have had to find good players late in drafts, off rookie lists or from other clubs. Richmond, Melbourne and Carlton have all had an abundance of assistance from the AFL (priority picks and early draft picks) and are still a disgrace, because they have terrible recruiting staff and waste picks on Scully, Trengove, Watts, Tambling etc.
If Sydney weren’t so successful, no one would be saying anything about the additional money, because everyone knows it is more expensive to live in Sydney. If it was to be truly fair, Adelaide clubs should receive the least salary cap as it is far cheaper to live in Adelaide than any of the other capital cities, and the other State teams would be scaled between Adelaide and Sydney.
Rant over.
To that, I say, bullshit.
People in our Sydney branch who do exactly what I do earn less than me.
