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Message: [QUOTE="Anonymous person, post: 2387184, member: 2115"] they only approved it because St George backloaded it so hed be paid FAR more his final seasons - in this case 2012/13/14 - than a player would usually get, to make up for in particular his 2010 return only counting as something like 120k (iirc, or something tiny like that) in that years salary cap, and then not much more this year. if they hadve known he would retire and therefore St George wouldnt have the option of backloading the contract while never actually having to pay it out, they would NOT have approved it. its dodgy as all hell. it wouldve been like a team signing Slater, Cronk and Smith from Melbourne before the first round of the finals last year on 2 year contracts that were backended so they would be paid $20k for the finals series in 2010 and then 700k each for 2011, winning the premiership for that team in 2010, and then having them cancel their contracts before round 1 of 2011 and they resign with melbourne. they got the best players for a pittance, got a premiership, then never had to pay the huge payments that were the only reason they were allowed to sign them in the first place. not so much pay him, but his contracted amount for 2012/2013/2014 should be taken off their salary cap for that year. EDIT: read that he was initially signed in 2010 til the end of 2014, for $1.9 million. so they payed out about $120k of that for 2010, probably still far below market value for 2011, and then significantly huge contracts for 2012/2013/2014. [/QUOTE]

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