Are we really up to the full cap?

Sept 19th six players leave:
Sean Long, Craig Fitzgibbon, Ewan Dowes, Danny Washbrook, Epalahame Lauaki, and Cameron Phelps.

Sept 22nd
Martin Gleeson, Mike Burnett and Lee Williams.

Oct 6th
Lee Radford

Nov 9th
Sam Obst

I may be wrong but I would think Long, Fitz, and Lauaki wage would have covered McKinnon, Heremaia , Seymour and Ellis.

If so, I think we have so far replaced Dowes, Washbrook, Gleeson, Burnett, Williams, Radford, Obst, and may be [iPhelps[/i wages, with Lynch, O'Carroll, Martin and Aspinwall.

If we are upto full cap then someone must be on one hell of a wedge.

Houghton signed a new deal did anyone else?

Would any players have their deals structured to have higher wages in their last year (O'meley, Manu?).

Nobody on here knows. All we can say is that we definitely [ihave[/i been up to full cap in the past as we've been pinged for exceeding it twice - albeit only slightly. I'm not sure that the side we had when we were caught the second time looked much more expensive than the one we have now.

Someone else mentioned it on another thread, but our lack of good quality youth players could be costing us in terms of the cap as we're having to employ more experienced - and therefore more expensive - players for cover.

Dunno and at the end of the day I'm not too fussed. We probably have paid over the odds in the last few years and I'm sure the likes of Seymour/Heremaia/McKinnon didn't come for peanuts. Hopefully things will rectify themselves going forward but it's not something else worth wringing hands about.

I reckon Seymour is on a massive chunk ie 250-300k

no way if he is then the club need shooting i reckon about 150k

Weve needed a proper scrum half for years and decent ones are hard to come by so when Seymour became available i bet FC just said name your price

i know what your saying but for a suoper league club to pay 300k for a player hes got to be somethig special like i say reckon hes on 150-180k

Trent Barrett was on about that wasn't he? Seymour is no Barrett!

Know one is sure what's he on , everyone is guessing

Are you on drugs?

didn't mcrea or pearson state that they couldn't believe what the past board were paying our overseas players in their contracts?

But you wouldn't offer them deals in line with the top Nrl players!

Moa, and I reckon it was probably a decent (but not massive) hike as his improvement has been significant.

At the moment a £1 buys $1.50 in Aus so if an Aussie wants $500,000 , which they can get here in Aus quite easily then we need to pay £330,000 pa !!!!! That is why some UK players are now in Aus as they get $500,000 and that is a LOT of UK pounds. So to get average Aus players over we pay over the odds. Also the salary cap here in Aus is higher in comparison to here.

Only 5 years ago it was nearly $3 aussie to £1 so we could pay an Aussie , like Barratt , £200,000pa and he would be RICH if he sent his money home etc

So , it is expensive to get a mediocre Aussie and I am not sure we are really even that excited about our new guys.

YOUTH is the answer and we MUST bulk up these 18-20 year olds and get them fitter , sharper and more skillful than they are now. We must think beyond the norm to do this and I HOPE Gentle has the answer

Oh dear oh dear!!!!!

I live in Auckland and go and watch the Warriors.

I know for fact Seymour was close to going back to an Austrailian club before FC came in for him.

Big money was waved in front of him to come to FC is my understanding.

I've got no doubt he'll be one of our top paid players but to pay one player a sixth or your cap would be a massive mistake.

Seymoor surely wont be on any more than £120k a year and even that would be to much for the player IMO.

Oh you do surprise me

I doubt he has ever seen him play, but 125K will be about right and when you think that NRL reserve players like Dobson will be gettong more than that, it might not be a bad deal.

Really this is a pointless thread as nobody on here knows who earns what and how close we are to the salary cap limit,

Well i believe Seymour is on a massive chunk and seen as nobody actually knows then it will remain my belief and i get this from the fact the exchange rate is poor, other clubs were in for him and we were desperate. He will no be on a miserly 125K even if people think that what hes worth and its just not worth coming afrom the best league in the world with its new salary cap to some to ty old England for what would probably be worse cash once you factor in the exchange rate.