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ABL Salary Cap

Precisely yogee, beat me to it!

Maybe it should be 70/30 to the women to develop the womens comp.

No disrespect intended to any of the women, but the talent pool is so obviously a lot more shallow for the women, so getting more money into the women's teams to help with player development would be a great idea.

Personally, I think 50/50 is the way to go. What makes a female player any less of a club member, and therefore less desreving of payment, just because of her gender?

As far as legal issues with salary caps, AFL Players Association tried to challenge it years ago, along with the draft, and it got thrown out of court.

Heh, no way I'm a North boy!

More issues: should players who have come through juniors expect payments? If so, why?

And if this isn't the case, then I think the salary cap, after reflection, is a good thing, to help keep clubs afloat and promote junior development. After all, unless clubs are paying EVERY player, they're not paying much higher, are they?

My issue with the salary cap is the 60/40...why not just make it $15k each for mens and womens.

What an interesting idea! A salary cap for Central ABL. If it comes to pass that such a regulation is adopted won't it be a fun game for a club administrator to work out ways of getting around the reg. The challenge for a club will be how to circumvent it. Of course what happens if a club is found to be in breach of the regulation? And who is going to police it? Will a club be fined? I do not think so. It would be nothing more than a paper tiger, something that would give the clubs a feeling that they are all on a level playing field. If I were a hotshot club administrator I would wait for the regulation to be adopted and then gather enough legal opinion to challenge it. If successsful I could then offer my services to the 36ers to help them. They seem to have had some trouble in the past over this issue. Come on club Presidents bring in your salary cap give us lawyers some fun at your expense. Will that help the game progress? I don't think so, although it could give a media scribe something to write about thereby increasing the coverage that the ABL gets in the morning daily. Maybe I have just answered my question as to why a salary cap? To increase the amount of publicity that local basketball gets in the mainstream media. Cornesy and KG might also be interested. Good work, guys.

Referring tot he comment re losing Newley to SEABL.

He plays in the SEABL as part of the AIS team, so he wasn't "lost" to SEABL, rather, thats his "college" team.

Surely you wouldnt expect Newley to have knocked back an AIS cholarship, because it meant he couldnt play Central ABL?

And even if your referring to when he joing the Crocs, they may request him to play in SEABL, rather than ABL, as their coaching staff can keep a closer eye on SEABL (mind you, I think they would ask him to play in the Queensland comp).

I guess the idea is that players like Newley who grew up playing for the club will end up playing for it for free...did alot for Jacob.

Been there, seen the bottom line, read many Management meeting notes and club account reports. I know where it's at!

And Yosemite Sam...Daffy Duck is sooooooo much more superior.

It's not hard to type your name in for a start.....

Juniors are the benchmark of every and any club, I can say in my time that I do not think my club has neglected its junior program, and rather its senior program in the effort to gain the rewards of promoting good juniors to the senior program (read - no money issues).

However, I'm also in the position that I think that clubs should be doing their all to promote basketball in this state, and if that means that because they have worked hard to present a good sponsorship package to the right companies, then they have the right to spend what they earn. If this means playing imports or paying a wage to keep the best SA players in the ABL during Winter, so be it.

Infact, if it keeps ANY players in basketball at all, so be it. The big dropout rate of kids and seniors alike is because the enthusiasm that the sport once had back 10 years ago has disappeared...

Whilst i agree with Issac that Forestville have recruited well to replace guys already making big contributions, some might see this change as a type of 'Forestville Clause'. I know there are a few F/ville posters on the forum, how do they feel about this?

Further explanation must be sought. It was my understanding that imports (such as E. Bradley) were paid somewhere in the minimum of 25K? Have i been mislead?

The Presidents, again, take it into their own book to screw up basketball for the rest of us in South Australia...