Leroy

G'day, boys.

How you going?

Look, I'm a local recruiter for a Gippsland side.

I won't say who it is, but the thing that we have to go through to try and entice players and people to come down to our clubs to play is almost near on impossible now.

A lot of the bigger clubs, they offer big money that they get externally from, like,

to say dairy farmers or beef farmers or someone like that, that sponsor outside of the footy club to pay these players big money to get in.

It's just about killing country and local footy.

Oh, absolutely, they are.

I mean, our salary cap is, it's almost impossible to entice players

really good players to come and make you competitive.

And that's why clubs go, they pay outside of the cap that, you know, they fudge the numbers on the contracts that go to the contracts that end up going front because you've got one at the club and then you have one that goes to the league.

And there's always different numbers that are on those contracts because they get a little bit of cream externally.

Yeah, around $30,000 to $40,000, yep.

It was a league that folded a couple of years ago that then had to merge with another league as well.

So we've got two leagues kind of merged into one.

We've got some really, really big clubs that have won up to 37 flags in the history of the clubs.

Some of the smaller clubs have never ever won one because they just can't compete with these bigger clubs.

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