Salary cap also lowers probably due to the change in revenue. I wouldn’t be holding onto this pipe dream of Boyd’s salary making a difference. We will still have Bird and Milf and the Boyd $ will probably go to FiFi.
Apparently salary cap isn't changing
We lose Kahu and Boyd minimum... and hopefully Macca.
Whilst needing to re-sign Fifi, Herbie and Niu.
Niu replaces one if them in the top 30, whilst Herbie probably gets a bit of an upgrade... probably not huge though.
Fifi was a talent before hitting first grade so we probably need to find $400-500k for his upgrade.
Boyd $600, Macca $400, Kahu $300 (total of $1.3M)
Herbie $250, Niu $150, Fifi $750 (total of $1.15M)
Then need 2 more minimum wage contracts $230k... so it's pretty close even with those numbers... unless Herbie or Niu go for bigger contracts, but I'm not sure Niu gets a huge upgrade at this stage and Herbie probably doesn't go beyond $300 just yet.
The salary cap opens up after 2021 as well so potentially players jump on for 12 months and then look to re-sign longer when cap situation opens up