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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I had some issues with the flight yesterday, did we?
I just got delayed. Hello, Kane. Hello, Kingy. It happens. It happens to the best of us.
Chapter 2: What was Tom Morris's big BBL story last week?
Not much you can do. You've got to stop flying Jetstar. That's your problem. It was Qantas.
Yes. Delayed. But anyway, that's okay. Good to be here this morning. And it was a great game at the SCG yesterday. That ground, when it is rocking on a Sunday afternoon, is as good as it gets. 42,000 people. Good weather. Good game. Good game. Tom Chadwick in great form.
Good coverage on Channel 7.
Great. I thought the commentary was excellent from Al Nicholson, Jack Heverin.
Jack Heverin, fine form. Yep, yep, yep. Hey, all right. Before we address the football. Boring. Will you – with the experiment for the new ball emergency podcast.
Oh, I forgot about that. How'd it go?
Was it worth the effort?
I was on a run on Friday morning and just thought I'd tune in to you guys having a chat. And I hear my name and I hear some – I've seen pretty pointed criticism towards the new ball emergency podcast. First of all, Cain, a domestic cricket issue is massively underselling the merger of the Stars and the Renegades. In the middle of footy season, a domestic cricket issue is...
on sport with Beck Madden. Well, that was an error. You are out of touch. No, I'm not.
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Chapter 3: What insights did Tom Morris share about 'The Integrity Unit' podcast?
So hypothetically, Sydney would get 90% relief in year one, 75% relief in year two, and up to 50% relief in year three. And then from year four onwards, they would be on the hook in the salary cap for all of it. So that makes it less... attractive for clubs to sign players long-term who might have concussion history.
And that is the discussion around Tom McCartan and many other players around the league. And you can still pay the player outside the salary cap, so you might have the money anyway, but it would impact your salary cap more in the latter years of the contract.
Yep. So examples of the, like Sam Taylor's had a couple of nasty concussions, not to this level. He got a long-term deal. Tim English, not quite a long, long-term deal, but it was five years. So that was, um, they're probably two recent examples. The only time I can remember a club sort of pulling a contract off the table was Tom Duda at Adelaide.
Yes.
There was a contract there. I think he did his knee again. Then they readjusted that. Doesn't happen often though.
No, it doesn't. And Andrew Pridham said, the Sydney Swans chairman, in early 2024, that any player who retires due to concussion should have 100% of their cash paid outside the salary cap. So that's the Sydney Swans position on this issue. The AFL clearly has a slightly different position. Do we know how he is this morning? I've just checked in. He's okay. He didn't go to hospital yesterday.
He was at the ground, but it's still concerning, yeah.
So go behind the curtain a little bit with the contracts. What can you put in a contract and what can't you put in a contract regarding – Yeah, absence. Can you put a concussion clause in a contract?
I think you can try to put any clause in a contract, but the management also might say, no, we're not signing that.
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