Building a dynasty
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The Hawks made the finals, yet ranked 16th for player payments, marginally below Carlton, the only other club that outlaid less than $8 million when all the extras were taken into account.
By reaching the second week of the finals, Hawthorn paid an extra $114,700 in finals match payments. Thus, in real terms, it was clearly behind even the Blues, who were bad enough to win just four games and receive a priority pick
Sydney. 9.712 million
Brisbane 9.25 - includes Voss back loaded contract
Collingwood 8.899
St Kilda 8.889
Melbourne 8.827
Essendon* 8.648
Geelong 8.602
Fremantle 8.537
WCE 8.524
Richmond 8.341
Bulldogs 8.324
North 8.245
Adelaide 8.219
Port 8.144
Carlton 7.813
Hawthorn 7.797
Apparently lots of youth will create cap space.
Fans question how we will fit Fev and Judd in the cap when we've lost the contracts of Kouta, Whitnall, Lappin, Teague, Mclaren from the above figures. Yet the Pies and Essendon* were respectively third and sixth for player payments last year and chasing Judd's signature.
Presumably with a big offer.
Both were above Port and Geelong who had more finals payments than the Filth.
