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It's impossible to decline to activate a PO if you don't have the option to do so. Just as it's impossible to activate it if you don't have it. So nobody 'gave up' their PO, other than Brown, who gave up the PO that would've come due in 2027.
Only if you have masochistic tendencies. Be sensible, no sharp objects nearby.
In that case I'll line up a few beers and let the game begin.
Except when you yourself made the choice to take a different option, thus declining/giving up the PO in your favour rather than activating it. Pretty simple really.
It would have only 'come due' if he elected to trigger it.
You were talking about players giving up the PO as though they didn't want the option any longer. Choosing or declining to activate it (or signing an even longer extension) means they did take the option. It's only future options that they can give up, as in the case of Drown.
No, I was talking about people choosing not to take up the PO that they'd haggled for in their previous contract negotiations, for whatever reason.
Huh... um... So declining to activate the PO means they did take it up? Even if they signed and registered a contract with totally different conditions? That's no different to just signing a new contract fresh off the street, so can't mean that they "took up" the PO.
Either you're drunk again Pou, or you've argued POs so much that you've painted yourself into a very narrow definitional corner.
I kinda get the feeling that no matter how much or how many times you try to explain it, you're only going to get met with disagreement.
No it means they exercised the option. Something Drown (and Moses et al) did this year but Drown won't be doing in 2027 because he gave up the right.
My replies aren't for him, they are for the open minded. If my replies were just for bartman, I'd send him a PM.
Indeed... that's the irony at play!
Yet he seems to be the only one who continues the friendly banter.
You're partly right - Brown can't give up his 2028 PO (or get the chance to), because he declined/gave up his 2026 PO by signing a different contract.
No, declining an option requires the option to exist. Drown exercised his current option but won't be able to activate or decline his future one because he gave it up when he declined the current one.So therefore he also gave up the current PO by declining to activate it - just like anyone else who signed a new contract on new terms (rather than activate their PO under current contract terms).
Glad we've finally agreed!
