2021 AFL player contract values

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9753835/AFLs-paid-players-revealed-Lance-Franklin-takes-gong-Dustin-Martin-second.html#comments

The non-Collingwood salaries include:

Lance Franklin (Sydney Swans): $1.5million
Jeremy McGovern (West Coast): $1.25million
Dustin Martin (Richmond): $1.25million
Nat Fyfe (Fremantle): $1.1million
Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong): $950,000
Patrick Cripps (Carlton): $950,000
Stephen Coniglio (GWS): $950,000
Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs): $950,000
Jeremy Cameron (Geelong): $900,000
Adam Treloar (Western Bulldogs): $900,000
Rory Sloane (Adelaide): $875,000
Isaac Heeney (Sydney): $875,000
Christian Petracca (Melbourne): $850,000
Lachie Whitfield (GWS): $850,000
Toby Green (GWS): $850,000
Josh Kelly (GWS): $850,000 (signed a new contract yesterday for 8 years, at about $1 million per year).
Max Gawn (Melbourne: $850,000
Brad Hill (St Kilda): $850,000
Joe Daniher (Brisbane): $850,000
Tom Mitchell (Hawthorn): $850,000
Ollie Wines (Port Adelaide): $850,000
Zac Williams (Carlton $825,000
Jaeger O'Meara (Hawthorn): $825,000
Jacob Weitering (Carlton): $825,000

[piedys]

We let's look at this in perspective; if we open the url, we find a certain much-maligned Pies ruckman come in at $975K.
This places him at 5th spot between P.Cripps, and Dangerflog.
He is our only player in the list of 25; although Treloar would have been included had the AFL not pulled the trigger with us.
However, for all we know places 26-50 may feature players on very similar money, north of $800K; so our sample group is not total ideal.
We'd presume these are the ones that put the strain on a club's salary cap?
And not so much the players on $500-600K?

The breakdown of this list, if we are to believe it's accuracy, is disturbing...

GWS have 4 players listed
Carlton 3

The clubs below have 2 nominees:

Geelong [salary cap exempt obviously]
Hawthorn
Sydney
Melbourne
Western Bulldogs [Treloar*]

The clubs below have 1 nominee:

West Coast
Richmond
Fremantle
Adelaide
St Kilda
Brisbane
Port Adelaide

The clubs without a nominee:

Essendon [pretty sure Shiel, Smith and Stringer aren't playing for free...]
North
GCS

And the AFL instructs us to shed players? Seriously...
I better see some carnage across other clubs by the time list lodgements are in by this October; or we know the fix is in against us.