Re: Wingers : Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:11 pm
Wigg'n wrote:
Wow - French and Hastings got huge payrises then if true.
We also had cap space from O'Loughlin, Greenwood, Flower and Wells.
We also had cap space from O'Loughlin, Greenwood, Flower and Wells.
Yes they did
But & trying not to sound rude, it amazes me how people just through the wages around of people leaving and think we can just bring in X players to replace them.
Those players were all known about leaving mid season and the next years salary cap with Bateman's return, Field coming, players incremental wage rises for the younger players, improved contracts for Havard etc. were all accounted for with regards to the 2021 season by August or so last year.
If Hastings & French Left (And it was very much a real possibility) then we would have had those wages to play with, when Burgess's leaving was known about (I would say Early Oct) it allowed negotiations to take place to retain the 2 players.
Not my place to say the number I was told (I may have mentioned it previously though) but lets say it was a 20/25% increase on their original 2021 contracts.