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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Ralphy suggesting 6-7 year deal at $1M and could be close to signing by R10 or close to it.
What are your first thoughts BT?
Do you think if accurate one of Smith or JUH (shudder) is gone?
More of an In Bruges guy?
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
6-7 years is a concern with his concussion history, but the money is definitely at a reasonable level.
It would be really interesting to see how we are planning to manage the list. Tying up $2mil per year in Naughton and English, possibly close to 3mill when you hopefully include JUH, is a big risk.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
chef
Perfect.
Agree
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
I just don't think he's worth $1m a season. Forget the inflated cap - to pay ONE player a million, I want a matchwinner and I don't see that with English.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
No way I'd be paying over 1m and giving him 6 - 7 years.
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Theres probably a dozen really good ruckman in the league and we have one, we just need to hold onto him. Im surprised by how underrated he is by our own.
The curse is dead.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
jazzadogs
6-7 years is a concern with his concussion history, but the money is definitely at a reasonable level.
It would be really interesting to see how we are planning to manage the list. Tying up $2mil per year in Naughton and English, possibly close to 3mill when you hopefully include JUH, is a big risk.
Cap in 2022: $12.4m
Cap in 2023: $13.5m
Cap in 2025: $17.7m
I expect in a couple of years every team will have a few players on $1m+. It's hard to fathom the 40% + increase in TPP in just years.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
G-Mo77
No way I'd be paying over 1m and giving him 6 - 7 years.
I hate the long contracts, the market has really forced that (thanks swans), however 900k or 1.1 mill i mean really with the increase in the cap it's not that massive a difference.
Tim is a superstar. Total match winner for mine.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
I hate the long contracts, the market has really forced that (thanks swans), however 900k or 1.1 mill i mean really with the increase in the cap it's not that massive a difference.
Tim is a superstar. Total match winner for mine.
Which games were those?
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
bulldogfan
Where did he say that ? If so good news
That show after AFL360 (that?s a pretty bad HUN show).
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
azabob
What are your first thoughts BT?
Do you think if accurate one of Smith or JUH (shudder) is gone?
I think JUH is a lick to stay and Baz is a lock to go. If Macrae doesn’t get back into the side for a meaningful role and amount of games, I think he goes too.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
Mofra
Cap in 2022: $12.4m
Cap in 2023: $13.5m
Cap in 2025: $17.7m
I expect in a couple of years every team will have a few players on $1m+. It's hard to fathom the 40% + increase in TPP in just years.
Things are about to change and as supporters we need to embrace that sides could have 5 players or more on a million plus.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
Jasper
Things are about to change and as supporters we need to embrace that sides could have 5 players or more on a million plus.
Agree with this.
The money is all relative to the cap which is increasing significantly and means that the best players who make AA, win Brownlow and finish consistently top 3 in B&F will be able to command these types of numbers on long deals competition wide. We either sign them up or someone else will.
Good to hear a degree of confidence we’ll get the deal with Tim done. Personally still think he’s got a lot of growth in his game and will only continue to improve. Hopefully he spends more time forward in 2024 (maybe 25%) which could see him finish the year with 30 goals to his name too.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
Originally Posted by
JanLorMill
Which games were those?
Rd 4 v Tigers 23.
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Re: Tim English - What Price do you pay?
I am significantly more concerned regarding the contract length over the money. English has built up a bit of a worrying concussion history, who's to say the next one won't be curtains on his career?