Legally you have to honour contracts (in terms of monies agreed). If you don't want to honour a contract then either be prepared to be sued or better still don't agree to one in the first place.
There's only two options - keep him and play him in the VFL next year or pay him out of his contract. No other club will trade for him let alone take on a $300k contract. Not the only player either who we'll be stuck with next year thanks to giving fringe players multi-year contracts .
I suppose you can pay part of the contract as part of a trade and then it forms part of next years salary cap.
I would think if we cull the list and bring in kids then we probably wont be paying close to 100% anyway so it would hurt us too much and if it frees up a spot then it's worth considering it
That's true WP but even if we paid them I'd still doubt anyone else would want McMahon
. He was playing VFL with the Doggies and he's playing VFL for us so he would just be classed as a list clogger even if he arrived for free at a third AFL club.