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Cairns signs Mee

one thing that puzzles me is we know that nearly all the other teams are way above the salary cap and manage to hide the fact but how do they get around the points system

If this is your argument Stephon, then there is something surely wrong when you look at other teams rosters. It seems that Adelaide is the only one doing this legally according to the cap. Either that or good players will play for less elsewhere and expect more here.

As far as Hill goes, isn't he a rookie? Nash said that an offer that was going around for him wasn't even enough to support his family. Assuming he could support his family last year on his income alone, he would have been on a resonable amount. Add that to Rees salary plus a difference in salary between Williams and Hill, you may have just scraped in to get Bradtke.

As for other players expecting a pay rise this season, that would surely be dependent on the salary cap increasing. You can't increase payments if the cap stays the same. I think the whole problem of money comes from the Sixers not even wanting to reach the salary cap and do things cheaper.

Money has to be the only reason because Bradtke himself said on last week's Talking Hoops program that he would have considered Adelaide. Unlike what Stephon said about who we would replace him for, we have lost Williams, Nash and possibly Rees. I would have taken Bradtke to replace all three of these as far as salary goes. If we then lost Hambour and Gower, I would replace them with another 2 rookies.

i dont know about anyone else but i am getting sick and tired of seeing the sixers go downhill because of bad management i really think we need more than truslove cooper and ng coming off the bench we need more substantial players like every other team has. please dont quote the salary cap because all teams SHOULD have the same amount of money. there is something terribly wrong with recruiting measures if we let players like bratke, mee,copeland, cattalini etc. be taken from us because we are too slow to pick up the phone.just because we are wanting to get farley back doesnt mean we dont go after other fantastic players.