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Re: Early Trade Rumours 2023
I think with the new regulations he's worth $1M and I think he's genuinely still improving his game. Nothing of his trajectory to date says' to me he's about to stop improving, and while that's not to say he won't get challenged at times I think he ads more via his positive attributes that can be measured versus the intangibles that can't. Though me saying that is comparing intangibles versus tangibles and that'd be hypocritical so I'll leave that there.
Where does he improve? Obviously his strength in the contest and his craft, however, I also think he has another gear to go up as he continues to get stronger that will see him less fatigued and less prone to dropping out of games. It's not a binary thing, increased strength to compete in the grind gives us more chances at the coal face, but it also equals less fatigue and higher capacity to keep going around the ground. I'm not putting a ceiling on what he can do across his whole game.
Leaving Jordon Sweet out of the equation for the moment, who is on the market that could do as good a job as Darcy Cameron who's probably going to be on $800K - a year after Tim hits $1M at the end of next year - if he keeps playing the way that he is or earlier if he extends? It's great to say we could save $4.5K per listed player if we just moved on Tim and found a Darcy Cameron to play his role instead, but that's much easier said than done. If we want to find someone as good as Darcy Cameron we're probably paying $800K to $900K unless we gamble on a lesser player to step up.
And the latter part is really the crux of it. We all snigger at players reportedly moving on for as little as $40K per year, but if we pay Naughton and English $200K per year more than we might like what's the actual impact spread across the playing group (maybe $10K a player)? Does it really smash affordability as much as we think it does or are there ways around it through smart management and well, actually being a good place to work?
I think with the new regulations he's worth $1M and I think he's genuinely still improving his game. Nothing of his trajectory to date says' to me he's about to stop improving, and while that's not to say he won't get challenged at times I think he ads more via his positive attributes that can be measured versus the intangibles that can't. Though me saying that is comparing intangibles versus tangibles and that'd be hypocritical so I'll leave that there.
Where does he improve? Obviously his strength in the contest and his craft, however, I also think he has another gear to go up as he continues to get stronger that will see him less fatigued and less prone to dropping out of games. It's not a binary thing, increased strength to compete in the grind gives us more chances at the coal face, but it also equals less fatigue and higher capacity to keep going around the ground. I'm not putting a ceiling on what he can do across his whole game.
Leaving Jordon Sweet out of the equation for the moment, who is on the market that could do as good a job as Darcy Cameron who's probably going to be on $800K - a year after Tim hits $1M at the end of next year - if he keeps playing the way that he is or earlier if he extends? It's great to say we could save $4.5K per listed player if we just moved on Tim and found a Darcy Cameron to play his role instead, but that's much easier said than done. If we want to find someone as good as Darcy Cameron we're probably paying $800K to $900K unless we gamble on a lesser player to step up.
And the latter part is really the crux of it. We all snigger at players reportedly moving on for as little as $40K per year, but if we pay Naughton and English $200K per year more than we might like what's the actual impact spread across the playing group (maybe $10K a player)? Does it really smash affordability as much as we think it does or are there ways around it through smart management and well, actually being a good place to work?
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