reports<\/a> that the 25-year-old, who\u2019s lost four finals at GWS, could attract a deal from the Devils of more than $15 million total \u2014 prospectively an eight-year deal of at least $1.8 million per year, plus a piece of the signing-bonus pie. <\/p>\nProbed on whether Green was the sort of player the Devils should look to build their list around, Geelong assistant and Tasmania coaching candidate Nathan Buckley offered his thoughts. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think the rhetoric that\u2019s coming out of the club is right \u2014 you want to recruit leadership first,\u201d Buckley said on Fox Footy\u2019s On The Couch. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that has to be some part of the talent package that you\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n
Where has it all gone wrong for Dons? | 02:33<\/p>\n
Buckley also shared his potential strategy for spreading out the $5 million bonus purse so that no Devils player felt excluded. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I also agree, if it\u2019s accurate, with spreading that $5 million \u2014 outside of TPP (total player payments) \u2014 bonus over the first two years across the list, rather than just \u2026 I think everything is on the table,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve looked at it, and I\u2019d suggest that you sort of nearly do it pro rata.<\/p>\n
\u201cSay the TPP is $20 million, and someone earns $2 million, that\u2019s 10 per cent of the TPP, well then they get 10 per cent of the $5 million. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf someone earns $200,000, then they get 1 per cent of it, so potentially there is a lick in it for any one of the inaugural Devils players without creating any animosity in the locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Green will sit out the entirety of this season with a torn ACL, he\u2019s played at least 21 games in each of the past four seasons, including averaging 29.7 last season as the Giants surged to the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Daicos? No, thanks. Instead, it\u2019s another prolific ball-winner that the Tasmania Devils are said to have at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,12093,64,63,689,55,639,11295,275925,275924,10133,275923,10145,61,2485,275921,19125,681,11182,677,48874,233549,701,10032,275928,275922,85,275927,275929,2801,11236,275926,125798],"class_list":["post-559074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-another-fine-day","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-king","tag-chasing-tom-green","tag-coaching-candidate","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-elite-contest-player","tag-garry-lyon","tag-gerard-whateley","tag-gold-coast","tag-greater-western-sydney-football-club-academy","tag-jay-clark","tag-jon-ralph","tag-locker-room","tag-oceania","tag-player-payments","tag-prolific-ball-winner","tag-queensland","tag-signing-bonus","tag-signing-bonus-fund","tag-signing-bonus-pie","tag-sports","tag-super-plot","tag-talent-package","tag-tasmania","tag-trade-news","tag-victoria-clubs","tag-wish-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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