the phantom menace
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*impairment... much?
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*impairment... much?
Is that him in his profile pic ?
They have an option to explore other offers while still having a safety net.
Exactly. They will still test the market, safety net or not. Welch agreed to sign with us while he had a PO in his back pocket. It only became a factor when he did his knee and we pulled our offer. He was never going to activate the PO without testing the market.
If they want to maximise their contract value, and they are likely to get a bigger deal by going to market, they will go to market.
Most players won't want an option because they would have to give up cash.
Because our salary cap is tight and it's a way to reduce their salary demands.
That's what we've done with most of them.
The Storm disagree with you.
Because our cap has been mismanaged?
Not enough though.
People disagreed with Galileo too... don't be the last to see the light.
Well yes it does, which is the whole point of it. The option is a benefit to the player. What the club gets out of it is during negotiations. Just like how your insurance premium is worth a dollar value to the insurance company, a PO has a dollar value to the club. This is taken into account during the negotiation process. If a club is offering or agreeing to a PO it is understood that the player pays for it.
They could've all gotten massive overs too for all we know, but the sensible assumption is that nothing is free. Most players don't have a PO, either because they and the club can't agree on what it was worth, or just because players know that if they want a PO they can't expect as much money. Like how so many people don't bother paying for insurance. They think the money is better off staying in their pocket.
This is still assumptive bollocks no matter how much you try to repeat it, and that you've been repeatedly called out on.
Well no, I’m repeatedly calling you out on your presumption that a PO is given away for nothing. I’d say the NRL clubs know better than you do. When they give the player an option they get something in return. For you to claim otherwise is presumptive bollocks, and I will continue to call you out on it.
When we can't even rely on basic logic how can we discuss anything around here. If player options were given away for free, every player would have them.
I actually know how some of our PO's work and I'm not saying I disagree with you. I am just too scared of being spammed by Bart, to get involved in the conversation.
