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Dustin Martin
- Thread starter Rosy
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Yep. Bet there's also ambassadorial payments and marketing payments not part of his playing salary paid by the AFL which won't be considered as part of compensation.
Right, so not included in judgement of compensatory draft pick? So even less chance. Will he be getting ambassadorial payments? I'm not sure Dusty would want work that requires public speaking.
Yep I think he is gone. The 300th game was his farewell to us. To avoid the media fanfare the move will kept tight lipped until after the season.
One of these days, one of these d1ckhole AFL journos is going to get Martin's next move correct on their millionth try, and they'll be creaming themselves silly and backslapping whichever scribe happened to break the 'exclusive' - or more to the truth, it'll be whichever journo wins this tedious and years-long game of pass-the-parcel. That's how the AFL media circle-jerk runs, doesn't it?
Dogwick bit hard on Dimma our three time hero coach. Do not think Dimma was flavour of the month after split from his missus so was time to move on a bring some stability back to the family environment in the club. Besides that Dimma was orrible until Balme & Caracella stood behind him.
What irks me is the media spent the best part of a decade trying to move one of our greatest players somewhere. I don’t get the fascination in wanting to see a champion change clubs. Ask yourself this, why did Hutchy and Eddie and the media stooges never speculate on their beloved Selwood, Pendles et al
How *smile* must Sam NoClue be now. Been spruiking to the Suns for years, the year that it might actually happen and someone else breaks the story hahahahahahahahaha
Whilst it pains me to say it, I think the journos are probably right on this one, Dusty will either retire, or move to the GC, staying with us is probably the 3rd option as it doesn't really benefit either Dusty or the club.
Pretty sure the free agency compensation is based on the total contract as a whole. Would expect any ambassador payments would be a related 3rd party payment and form part of the contract and therefore included in any calculation for compensation. Contract needs to be 2 years min. for compensation pick.
Any ambassador payment would just be outside the salary cap.
Ambassador role for Dustin Martin would probably be in name only - the likes of a few kids training clinics etc.
Under the AFL's clandestine approach to assessing UFA compo and the fact it is Richmond involved, 95-100 more likely.
If Duz goes there, then how about fair trade? Dimma the Divorcer can give us some good players. Why the hell are we all of a sudden their carers????
If GC thing is a done deal then I'd be OK for it to be announced to the fans before season's end. Dusty's final game might also be v Hawks. Not sure I'd wanna see him play GC in final game but on the flip side would be awesome if he played and we knocked em outta finals.
No doubt.
The other thing is also any ASA (Additional Service Agreements) payments should be included in any compensation pick calculation along with salary and ambassador payments.
Would expect quite a few of the GC sponsors would be keen to use the Dustin Martin brand. Pretty sure his manager would find it pretty easy to negotiate some juicy deals with them.
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