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    A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

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    The AFL will increase the soft cap on football department spending by $500,000, leaving it up to the clubs on whether they spend the extra money on senior coaches or other staff.

    AFL boss Gillon McLachlan told the 18 clubs on Wednesday that the soft cap - which was slashed during 2020 from $9.7 million to $6.2m and is about $6.5m this year - will be bolstered by a further $500,000 in 2023. This does not count the further $670,000 that clubs can pay outside the cap in exemptions this year.

    All told, clubs will be able to spend more than $7.6m when the exemptions - which are largely for health-related spending on players - are included, as the game’s parlous finances slowly recover.

    McLachlan and the league, however, have opted not to have a payment for senior coaches outside the soft cap, even though this was McLachlan’s own preference. McLachlan had been unable to persuade the majority of club presidents to have the exemption for the senior coaches, sources said.

    Clubs have been pushing for an increase in the football department cap on the grounds that coaches and other staff have been over-worked. The senior coaches are aggrieved that their stress and workload have increased during the post-pandemic period, but their wages - and capacity to hire assistant coaches in support - have remained suppressed.


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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Can we get a goal kicking coach? Restraining myself from using any expletives

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by macca View Post
    Can we get a goal kicking coach? Restraining myself from using any expletives
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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    Two dogs is available and has a theory. You may have heard it.
    Can we see it on youtube?

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog4life View Post
    Can we see it on youtube?
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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    Two dogs is available and has a theory. You may have heard it.
    Can we just hire Twodogs as kicking coach ?

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    SO this is probably 2, maybe 3 additional staff?

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by FrediKanoute View Post
    SO this is probably 2, maybe 3 additional staff?
    Depends on our needs, 3 seems about right.
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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by FrediKanoute View Post
    SO this is probably 2, maybe 3 additional staff?
    There's probably some capital investment that needs to be done as well I'm guessing???
    What should I tell her? She's going to ask.

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    It's a positive. Would it change our approach to, seemingly, cheap as chips assistant coach appointments if we had this $ last year?

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    McLachlan and the league, however, have opted not to have a payment for senior coaches outside the soft cap, even though this was McLachlan’s own preference. McLachlan had been unable to persuade the majority of club presidents to have the exemption for the senior coaches, sources said.
    If this had happened would it potentially have priced the smaller clubs out of the market for the more high profile coaches?

    Say West Coast and North are both in the market for Clarkson, West Coast could simply blow North out of the water with a huge offer outside the cap.

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    Re: A win for the clubs: AFL increases cap on footy department spending

    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    If this had happened would it potentially have priced the smaller clubs out of the market for the more high profile coaches?

    Say West Coast and North are both in the market for Clarkson, West Coast could simply blow North out of the water with a huge offer outside the cap.
    Agree, the rich clubs could lure the best coaches and once more the smaller clubs miss out.
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