Blues will maintain "advantage" in 2021 regardless of salary cap cuts
Carlton will maintain its ability to pay 105 per cent of the salary cap next year regardless of what slashes are made by the AFL in 2020. The COVID-19 crisis looks likely to lead to a reduced salary cap going forward, with Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon saying it will be at least a 20 per cent reduction. The Blues have used a strategy of ‘under-spending’ in the salary cap across 2018 and 2019, which allows them to utilise 105 per cent of the cap in 2020 and 2021. This is part of what allowed...