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Title: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: one-eyed on October 10, 2011, 04:15:42 AM
AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda

    by: Scott Gullan
    From: Herald Sun
    October 10, 2011

ST KILDA needs to pull the trigger in trade week to appease an AFL request to reduce its salary cap.

The Saints loom as a key player when the clubs converge today on Etihad Stadium given they have to shed a significant amount of cash from their salary cap by the end of the month.

Defender Sam Gilbert is the biggest name to have already been thrown out there along with out-of-contract pair Zac Dawson and Farren Ray.

AFL salary cap investigator Ken Wood has been a regular visitor to the Saints' Seaford base in recent weeks. He is understood to have found the Saints to be in breach of their salary cap but has given them room to move before the deadline of October 31.

So the Saints must move on players and they'll do so without a senior coach.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-investigators-salary-cap-fix-deadline-looms-for-st-kilda/story-fn69a32t-1226162472545
Title: Re: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: mightytiges on October 10, 2011, 04:35:37 AM
Talk about a club in freefall. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse for them - it does!  :lol
Title: Re: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: FNM on October 10, 2011, 05:22:57 AM
Why are they giving them "room to move"
Are they in breach or not?
Title: Re: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: Dubstep Dookie on October 10, 2011, 08:05:15 AM
Loving this  ;D
Title: Re: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: WilliamPowell on October 10, 2011, 08:33:30 AM
Quote from: FNM on October 10, 2011, 05:22:57 AM
Why are they giving them "room to move"
Are they in breach or not?

I think it means they are in breach for 2012 FNM.

First set of numbers for 2012 are due 31st Oct before the draft

So that means they do indeed have until 31/10/2012 to get the numbers under the cap, not that there is a cap right at the minute thanks to the players not accepting the currnet CBA offer

Couldn't happen to a better club  ;D
Title: Re: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: FNM on October 10, 2011, 09:20:10 AM
Quote from: WilliamPowell on October 10, 2011, 08:33:30 AM
Quote from: FNM on October 10, 2011, 05:22:57 AM
Why are they giving them "room to move"
Are they in breach or not?

I think it means they are in breach for 2012 FNM.

First set of numbers for 2012 are due 31st Oct before the draft

So that means they do indeed have until 31/10/2012 to get the numbers under the cap, not that there is a cap right at the minute thanks to the players not accepting the currnet CBA offer

Couldn't happen to a better club  ;D
Swap Goddard for Jackson - fair trade
Title: Saints still face salary cap issues (afl site)
Post by: one-eyed on October 17, 2011, 05:06:40 PM
ST KILDA has conceded it has some work to do before the end of the month to alleviate its salary cap squeeze after a Trade Week that did little to relieve the pressure.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/125213/default.aspx
Title: Re: AFL investigator's salary cap fix deadline looms for St Kilda (Herald-Sun)
Post by: Dubstep Dookie on October 17, 2011, 06:00:35 PM
Translation:

"We thought we would have won a premiership or two by now and in the Geelong mould, justifiably would be in a position to ask the players to take a pay cut to stay together. However, as the a r s e has fallen out of the club over the past 12 months, if existing contracted players don't take responsibility for our fups and take a pay cut, uncontracted players will be asked to nominate for the PSD."