Hawthorn can pay about $750,000 subsequent yr for the salaries of traded veterans Tom Mitchell and Jaeger O’Meara, who might be taking part in at different golf equipment.
Whereas it was identified the Hawks would contribute to the salaries of the gamers as an incentive for golf equipment to commerce for the gamers on excessive contracts, the scale of the contributions was not identified.
Tom Mitchell and Jaeger O’Meara will nonetheless be paid partially by Hawthorn.Credit score:Getty Pictures
Sources confirmed the Hawks would pay about $500,000 of O’Meara’s wage subsequent yr and about $250,000 of Mitchell’s.
They’d been contracted for barely greater than $1.5 million at Hawthorn subsequent yr, so though the contributions to their salaries whereas they play for different golf equipment is a price, the Hawks would have a look at it as having saved $750,000 in salaries on older gamers that they had already been transitioning out of their midfield.
Mitchell has signed a three-year deal at Collingwood on about $500,000 a yr – Hawthorn can pay the residual on what was to be his remaining yr on the Hawks subsequent yr. O’Meara, who turns 29 in February, has signed a four-year contract with Fremantle.
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Extra golf equipment than ever are ready to pay the salaries of former gamers to maneuver to a different membership and play elsewhere as golf equipment recognise managing the wage cap is as necessary a part of checklist administration as bringing in expertise.
Collingwood are contributing greater than $200,000 a yr for ruckman Brodie Grundy to play at Melbourne whereas additionally persevering with to pay Adam Treloar, two seasons after his transfer to the Western Bulldogs. And within the greatest transfer of the low season, capitalising on the AFL’s relaxed guidelines on wage dumping, Jack Bowes moved to Geelong with choose 7 in trade for the Cats taking up all of Bowes’ $1.6m contract.
The Hawks’ determination to commerce their two ageing stars was a sign of their intent to expedite generational change.
