Earlier this week, Solomon, one of five franchise training staff members, will not receive a new contract in 2021, as COVID-19 monetary pressures bite in a very genuine way.
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In total, the club was forced to fire 17 workers from its football department, a resolution Cochrane described as “really difficult.”
Solomon’s former teammates in Essendon were in position when his departure was announced.Former Channel 7 bomber and star Andrew Welsh advised Solomon’s punch more than you think, wondering if head coach Stuart Dew had been threatened with one of his right arms.
“It smells a little like me, maybe a senior coach watching how @SollySolomon is and is threatened, but it will hide a comfortable cap decision,” Welsh wrote on Twitter.”There is no doubt that all clubs will need to communicate with him, however, the call does not seem to be a call to the most productive interests of the CG.”
Champion Matthew Lloyd told Nine Dew that “obviously he doesn’t need Solomon on his training panel,” while former Essendon star Robert Shaw advised the Suns to prioritize cash over people.
However, Cochrane denied that there was anything unfavourable about Solomon’s dismissal, insisting that AFL clubs have seen their pay caps reduced due to the coronavirus, meaning that discounts will have to be made in football departments.
“I’m going to go into the Americans because I still have a lot of respect and say Solomon is a friend of mine and I hope he says that about me,” Cochrane said at SEN Breakfast.
“It was a complicated Array resolution on the breakdown component of football and (CEO) Mark Evans and I can tell you that we have regretted it for a while.
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“All the other clubs are going through this, we went a little earlier because we wanted to give those guys each and every chance to search and locate new jobs, but each and every club is going through to have to go through this.
“Each club’s salary cap is higher than around $9.8 million to around $6.3 million.It’s a third.
“Unfortunately, the flexible ceiling of football departments is fully committed to other people.We had to fire 17 other people overall at the end of the season and, for God’s sake, it was difficult.
Cochrane criticized critics who think something sinister is happening in the bright band and said that all workers who would not stay in the organization would receive full pay.
“Some of the reviews about the cash and contract are misinformed and are simply false,” he said.
“We’re going to go into September, we’ve tightened our belts, we’ve looked at every single dollar, we’ve passed the position over the smell of an oily rag.I’m proud of the paintings our boys have done.
“Everyone in our way has done some complicated things. We hate wasting someone.We hate to waste those other people and I can guarantee you will take care of them according to the bills on your contracts.
“It’s simple to criticize and throw stones a few thousand miles away.Let me tell you, it’s much more complicated when you sit at the table and communicate about other people’s lives and those other people mean a lot to you.”
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