Tigers looking good . Not a bad strategy to go with all Australian team .

Cap what Cap ?

Teams that make the finals will be audited.

You guys who continually beat up the tigers over salary cap issues are a joke. How can signing 5 players and a development player put you over a 1 million dollar salary cap???

wortho, anstey, barlow, do you honestly think they would be asking for anything less then MAXIMUM

that would equate to somewhere between 700k and 900k there alone on market value

You guys seriously are sooks.

Tigers sign great players because their an excellent club, in an excellent city. Just because they have edge when it comes to signing star players doesnt mean they are cheating.

It does how ever show how much sore losers you SA guys are. Why would anyone not from SA want to live in adelaide after playing for Townsville, Perth, Gold Coast, Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne, or Cairns?

And when they do sign, you guys a very quick to become haters if they play one bad game. You all get on here and bash em. maybe thats why melbourne players can sign stars and you guys can not

"And when they do sign, you guys a very quick to become haters if they play one bad game. You all get on here and bash em."

Great call. Not sure that'd be why anyone doesn't sign here but true.

Seriously though, there's no way the Tigs could pay the rest of their roster any more than the minimum without breaking the cap.

You'd think, with the sport going through reform process, with BA , that salary cap in the men's elite competition would be an important issue, and one that has to be right.

Yeah you would also think they would see that the points cap is a crock of shit. The two issues go hand in hand I guess.

Vic your logic and reasoning is just stupid and devoid of logic and reasoning- exactly what we'd expect from a one-eyed Tigers fan.

Most teams have been over the cap for 10 years , including 36ers.
We are not going to take the risk , this season.
Teams in the finals will get checked out with BA's additional resouces - Government etc. and, disqualified.

When we look at last years Tigers team, there was no way that team could lose....star power at it's best....but they did...
let the games and players do the talking when the season starts...

good to see some teams coming together nice and fast...

the maximum player payment was supposed to be around 175k last season. There would be a few on the tigers demanding that as a minimum

Tigers likely spending $750-800K on starters and $200-250K on bench. Given that Anstey and Mackinnon would likely have retired had their been no Tigers, they would hardly be asking for exorbitant money, especially knowing that the Tigers lost $500K last year.

Since when have players given a shit if an organisation loses money?????????

Older players are very aware of what an organisation will or will not pay given their financial status. Especially when those players dont want to leave the city that club is in.

Agree with paul. no way that the Tigers are paying the amounts indicated by some.

going with the all australian team gives many more opportunities than relying on imports .

Hope 36ers really will get value for money when they find their import as last year's players did not deliver.

Camel 31 (#240388) - I thought the 36ers were in a financial bind at points in the last 10 years that meant they couldn't afford salaries that would have put them over the cap? I recall a lot of heartache on this forum about the fact that we were not offering players what they could and did get from signing elsewhere.

One thing I recall too was the 36ers and supporters lamenting that, when the salary cap was reduced back to $700,000, there were some long term, big dollar deals that made it hard for them to fit other players under the cap. i.e., Rogers' & Maher's contracts at the time.

Vic - If we're all sooks and sore losers, then why get on here and read our posts?

Peter - My comments are , after listening to Ninnis talking to Cornsey, as to how the 36ers will be paying less , when the salary cap has gone up.

Ninnis was in general terms that most were over for about the last 10 years.
I'd guess there were seasons when we were in financial binds, although last season Hodge,Tynadale,Schenscher,Maher etc would be more that $1M.