Hoops

Are the Wildcats paying LESS this season?

I'd assume that Prather got a significant raise too. He's a whole different player this season to the one we signed up last year.

Damo got a big pay rise.

I don't know how true it was but there was a bit of talk early last season that Jawai was the highest paid player in the league on around $500k.

The certainly raked it in for 13/14.
IIRC the media claimed a $1M surplus?

For 14/15 Marvin claimed a loss. Maybe spent up big in anticipation of the usual windfall?
Keep in mind that (as part of Jack's directive) the Cats are a vehicle for spending on community programs.
And yes, they have staff coming out their ears.

I'm not suggesting they're doing it tough, it just seems to be that apart from Prather who was their MVP and obviously a priority to get back, they seem to have gone for role-players as imports, rather than big-scoring stars?

Keeping Martin was obviously a huge priority, and he and Knight would be on good money, but I wouldn't think massive, and not much of an increase?
Hard to know what Jawai was on? Rumour was HE was their Marquee player last season.

Remember that Beal re-signed for two years, after winning GF MVP, and one of the rumours was he was cut because he wanted too much.

Can't imagine the extended bench would be costing them too much. DKD wouldn't be on much, Redhage would be playing for peanuts at this point, Kenny would have gone up, and maybe Hire a bit.

Be interesting to know whether Prather is as highly paid as some might think. Obviously it would be decent, but the issue with him was always whether he could land an NBA gig, not how much the Cats were offering him to return.

Jawai would've been expensive last season. Doubt Beal was too ridiculous. Would've benefited from having a year in the league, but still not considered a scoring star.

Martin, Wagstaff and Knight would all have been paid well. Prather obviously went up. Brandt likely ate Jervis' salary.

Remember that teams have gone to 11 players and three imports. It's probably mostly Jawai's number that made this difficult to answer.

I'd be surprised if they lost money due to a solitary finals game, unless they had spent up very aggressively on non-core staff. I think they'd be raking in money.

OK so this will require some thought:

Who do people think are the ten best looking blokes who have played in the NBL.

Here is my list


1. Luke Nevill
2. Matt Nielson
3. Karen Doltan
4. Khazzouh
5. Geordie Cullen
6. Joe Inlges
7. Tim Behrendorff
8. Phil Smyth
9. Matthew Knight
10.Russell Hinder


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