Great signing for the Dragons if its true. Great to keep him in Australia. He's definitely entertaining and worth the money to watch.

shit!
makes them tough...

So South Melbourne is the new Brisbane - i.e. "ridiculously disregarding the salary cap in an attempt to buy a championship"?.

Lots of new employees at the marketing dept hey?

Points Cap check

Ere 10
Horvath 10
Ingles 9
Worthington 10
Burston 7
Smith 8
Vukona 8
Martin 5
Hobba 4
Herbert 3

= 74 Points how are they doing this squad?

and they only have 1 point guard in Martin.

I think Ingles holds a lower internal rating maybe?

Ingles would still be signed under a previous contract which makes him a 1.

i'd say that vukona would be less than an 8, ie 6
horvath would have been re-rated after being out for a while- ie 7
burston could be on loyalty down to a 6
martin re-rate to 4

thats already down to 68

although still gotta add that second import

Vukona is an 8, Horvath a 10, etc.

Here are the ratings

Gee whiz how valuable is that Ingles contract to the goons effectively a free hit at 8 points.

Also from the way i read it under the rules when Joe comes out of contract he gets deduction of 2 points for loyalty so still only making him a 7 point player.

Can't Ingles fulfill the YAP requirement?

I guess we should say goodbye to the Dragons in 2010 then. Old boy Gorj is up to his usual tricks, moves to a team when promised mega bucks to buy the team. Puts together a team well above the salary cap wins a championship and shortly thereafter they fold due to the heavy financial loses of the previous seasons.Of course it doesn't matter to him, some other idiot will do the same thing to win a championship as well.

So according to the recently released internal ratings and what I have read on the Dragons website, this is our current roster... Please correct me if I have made a mistake somewhere.

Ere(I)= 10
Horvath = 10
Worthington = 10
Vukona = 8
Smith = 8
Burston = 6
Ingles = 1
Herbert= 1

=54 out 68 points used

1 Import Spot Open

PG:?/?
SG:Ere/Herbert
SF:Ingles/Smith
PF:Worthington/Vukona
C:Burston/Horvath

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With 14 points left and an import spot anything could happen.

In my perfect world, would love to get Hodge (10) & Aaron Bruce (3). Not going to happen though :(

Also what about development players? Is Seebohn staying on?

Nash....im with you

Why are people saying we are turning out Financial Losses...Is there any reports of this?

I just cant wait for 36rs vs Dragons

Ninnis, Holmes and Hill vs Old Team...

Should be a cracker....Wortho to give it to Holmesy Boy

Ere adds some scoring punch but that was what Cortez was supposed to do but under Heal he was never going to score 30+

Speaking of which anyone heard where Cortez is headed this yr?

Financial losses are based on fairly reasonable guesses at salaries from people with decent contacts, e.g., 250+ to Ere, 250+ to Worthington, around 250 to Smith (waste of money, IMO), 150 to Vukona, etc. That's the salary cap gone in four players.

I don't think Smith would be on that much nowadays, but the rest are about right.

Haven't we all but established that the salary cap is crap anyway? I don't think there's a team that's under it. Maybe Hawks, Slingers and Pigs, but that's it.

We have room under points for a PG (big hole there)and a young player (Would almost have to be a backup PG unless they hold Martin). Bruce would be the guy that everyone is after.

Hell of a roster if Burston can stay healthy and Horvath keeps up.

Is the Ere info fact or rumour?

Very strong rumour. If 10 is 'fact', I'd have it as at least 8.5 as the source was very good. e.g., don't bet your house on it, but for the purposes of forum discussions, fantasy depth charts and the like, you can consider him signed IMO.

As someone mentioned earlier, what about Seebohm??? He would fit the U23 player.

I'd make the 8.5 into a 9.5, based on what I've heard too.

EC - you have many times stated that there is little or no valuer in targeting local players. Imagine Holmes, Forman and Ingles all on loyalty reduction in a Sixers uniform. Leaves plenty of cap space to sign say a Worthington or a Bruton when there's a clean out at other clubs. There's the real value, not extra crowd numbers.

doc, I have said target the best players, not necessarily local players and not necessarily ignore local players either. Im not sure what you mean about your comments regarding loyalty reduction, but wouldn't that theory blow out the window considering Forman and Holmes have disregarded loyalty by leaving Adelaide and Ingles never played for Adelaide. This is the exact reason why you shouldn't look at local players with that theory in mind.

Keep players under contract and they will be less likely to leave!

Shannon Seebohm has apprently been forced into permanent retirement due to his heart problems.

Sad for the young bloke.