"You can't pay too much for great" - Zak Butters chooses the Dogs (15.09.26)
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What’s the opening banter and why are they talking about tractors?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
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Off and running, it's preliminary final week and they are two of the best games of footies uh footy each year because it's probably the la we say this all the time, it's the last chance for the genuine footy lover to get tickets and go and cheer for their team. It's basically fans of both sides that fill the M C G or the S C G
Ninety plus at the M C Geti. Yeah, yeah. And what about uh your Kubota tractor? Have you picked that up yet or not?
Uh no, I've done a very good deal with Joe. Oh, I've traded in the big tractor and uh and uh a slasher that I just had that I wasn't using and I'm getting a smaller one.
You're getting a smaller slasher?
Yeah, a yeah, well, because it's a smaller tractor.
I know that, but a small tractor could also tow a big slasher.
Yeah, probably
that's true. Did you ask him about that or not? No, I didn't. I just I'm getting it. Because you don't know how to change them, do you?
How did Zak Butters’ move to the Western Bulldogs unfold?
Slasher commensurate with the size of the tractor. Hey, um the Zach Butters deal went down. It went down on Saturday morning. Um you Came in here and had this to say last week.
I spoke to somebody about this yesterday and uh their uh the conversation went around Tim English and whether or not and this person said that Tim Wing Tim English and the Bulldogs had an attitude towards Tim English that changed based on the fact that Zach Butters had said that if he was going to the Bulldogs, he would want Tim English to be there as the Ruckman. And do you think
the attitude of the Bulldogs to whether or not they trade Tim English changed on the back of that information from Zach Butters?
Well, based on the person that I spoke to, yes, there had been a change of attitude around that. Ding ding ding ding ding ding. Further to that, I found out later because you're on the money. You were right on the dollars. Further to that, I got a a call from a journalist out there who shall remain nameless and he said it all makes sense now. He said because the Bulldogs came hard at me when I suggested that Tim English may have been on the trade table and they were very, very upset and angry that I aired that publicly.
Well, I don't again, I don't play in the space, so I just listened to the likes of you and Sam Edmund. But it did appear that there was uh well, you know, does he go, does he not, and his wife's gonna go to the G D there wasn't and then all of a sudden this definitive narrative came out. We wouldn't trade him for three first round picks. And now it all makes sense.
It made it does.
Did Zak Butters’ decision change the Bulldogs’ attitude toward Tim English?
And uh I have got a mulcha pad, by the way, not a slasher. Well done to well done to the bulldogs for being up. And we said it last week. In fact I think I said it. Maybe not you, but you agree with me. You can't pay too much for great. You can't. And you quite rightly said to me off air this morning, wise words they were. You said. You said Whisper there'll be a new broadcast rights deal in five years' time. I did say there'll be more money in the game and what he's getting paid today will look like peanuts in five years' time. I inserted the word peanuts, you didn't actually say that.
The salary cap was one point two five million back in the late eighties. It was by the middle of the two thousands it was up to twelve million. Mm-hmm. By twenty twenty two uh COVID and yep. Then by twenty twenty seven it's up to eighteen point four four million.
Yeah, and if you add the marketing on top of that, it's around twenty million next season.
So but you wait. By twenty thirty six when Zac Zacco's deal runs out
Why are salary‑cap numbers exploding and what does a 12% cap hit mean for the Bulldogs?
Oh my lord. The one point eight won't seem as big as it was.
Mm.
Oh no. Is that a Zach Mullers line? Is that is that you is that your new sound effect for when you drop a big bomb?
Uh no, but I did people are rightfully uh calling me out there saying that uh early in the year I did say that he was going to Geelong. And in fact a month ago Geelong Geelong thought that they had him too. Uh just on that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What’s the opening banter and why are they talking about tractors?
0:00–1:08
2
How did Zak Butters’ move to the Western Bulldogs unfold?
1:08–2:51
3
Did Zak Butters’ decision change the Bulldogs’ attitude toward Tim English?
2:51–3:50
4
Why are salary‑cap numbers exploding and what does a 12% cap hit mean for the Bulldogs?
3:50–4:59
5
How could Zak Butters’ contract affect the Bulldogs’ chances of a premiership?
4:59–6:18
6
What’s the latest on the Todd Marshall trade and the compensation pick debate?
6:18–7:30
7
Why are clubs warned about back‑room collusion and how might it impact trade season?
7:30–8:46
8
Should AFL clubs protect young talent with stricter first‑year contract rules?
8:46–9:15
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