Re: Wingers : Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:52 am  

Either way, there's not a chance they shared a £175k payrise between them (at cap value).

Especially considering Hastings was already a marquee player so any payrise would not count on the cap anyway.

Re: Wingers : Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:19 am  

Wigg'n wrote:

Either way, there's not a chance they shared a £175k payrise between them (at cap value).

Especially considering Hastings was already a marquee player so any payrise would not count on the cap anyway.

Hastings wasn't a marquee (or he's been telling barefaced lies if he was). Ignoring the odd dispensation, we have £2.1m between our best 25 players. Take out the marquees and it's £1.8m between the other 23. So your average player is on £78k. Bearing that in mind I think the below sounds realistic

French from £75k to £150k (fringe player when he joined, one of the best players in the league when he signed his new deal)
Hastings from £125k to £150k (already well established but his stock did improve)
Havard from not counting on the cap to £50k (went from an academy player to regular in the 17).
Byrne from not counting on the cap to £50k (see Havard).
Field in for about £75k

Easy to see where the money could be swallowed

Re: Wingers : Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:37 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Either way, there's not a chance they shared a £175k payrise between them (at cap value).

Especially considering Hastings was already a marquee player so any payrise would not count on the cap anyway.

I didn't say that did I?

I saidnthey took a large part
Let's put it this way, it was about 2/3rds of that figure between them.
And they got similar rises

And I would be surprised of Hastings wa Marquee nominated, especially before the pay rise.