Daisy charged for striking Laidler! - can accept 1 game suspension

[Thryleon]

I reckon Robert Walls has a pretty good handle on how much Thomas is being paid and I accept his assertion that Thomas is our highest paid player on at least $700K.

Even if he was on $450K for four years with an option for a fifth year, it would still rate as on of our worst list management decisions.

Is that with or without excess loading on a contract?

Hypothetically speaking its possible that he was right in that particular 12 month period, but if rumours are to be believed, the captain is actually the highest paid player at the club, and not Daisy.  That might not have been true of 2015, but it would have been true of their total contractual amount.

Which means we have been front loading Daisy's contract, which might explain why he is on 700k per year.  We might have given him an entire year of his contract in the last 2.  Given where our list is at, I would expect this to be the case because we dont have that many high earners at the club and the ones we do, would also be on front loaded contracts.

This means that Walls can be right, and LP's point might also be accurate.

I suspect that the dollar values of contract don't necessary coincide with what we pay in wages per season, and we must be due to have a fair chunk of salary cap space available for use in a year or two to put towards a Treloar type player.