Quote Originally Posted by The Adelaide Connection View Post
Forgive my ignorance, but whilst there is the general notion that 'all players get a pay rise' isn't the extra 20% cap space at each clubs discretion and won't it likely end up being gobbled up by the high end talent or recruiting blokes in?

Or are current contracts held to ransom and whatever the previous signed on figure is has to be adjusted by 20%? ie If Harry Highpants signed on last year for 4 years at $400k, does the remainder of his contract automatically adjust to $480k initially and then by the incremental 1% or so increases thereafter?
Some contracts will have a clause in there anticipating some sort of increase from the new CBA and will go up 20% as a result, however it's not an automatic thing. If there's no clause in the contract then they stay as they are and the extra money just becomes available to use in order to re-sign existing players or chase new ones.