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Hasn't Matterson already taken up his option?
This.
This is Orr realising he sold his client short when he accepted the current contract with the POs in it. Now he wants more money and is pushing the narrative that the POs were bad for Parra and we can get rid of them if we would only give his client more cash. Maybe we're not the ones who are desperate? Just take the PO ffs Orr, and try again in three years time.
Agreed. They are entitled to, since they gave up money when they agreed to the PO in the first place. We've already benefited from the PO. Now it's Drown's turn.
It's not exactly the same. The difference is we can't f**k him off if we wanted to. But if we gave him this contract in the first place it means we wanted him to stay.
All possible. But when we gave Drown this contract we decided we were happy for him to stay if he activated the option. If he doesn't, we will use his cap space elsewhere. The longer it goes on, the more likely it is he will stay. Rival offers will come with their own deadlines and there's currently plenty of first graders off contract.
If these players didn't have POs, and we wanted to keep them, what sort of deadlines do you really think we would be imposing?
Lomax was still available in April last year. Players are all f**king whingers these days, and a club with cap space is very attractive. Plenty of merkins will be homesick for Kellyville. And I'm not just talking about the Arthur's boys.
I suspect it's the kind of deadline you'd give to an elite player, whether he had a PO or not. If the deadline was too short it would be worthless, just like if the value of the option years was much below expected market value. To be an option there has to be a chance it would and wouldn't be activated. If it was a no brainer either way it wouldn't be an option at all.
Moses took longer than round ten in 2023. Do you really think we would be telling Drown to sIgN oR f**k oF!!! if there was no PO? This sort of thing might hurt morale but the players are at fault here, not the club. Drown can activate his PO any time.
And we went from Grand Finalists to missing the 8.... Could've been some dissension in the ranks and poor team morale that caused it because of those contract stand offs.... Nobody here can say for sure either way....
Well there needs to be a vacancy when he wants to play first grade, so one of Moses or Drown would need to be gone. I believe Fletcher is only 18 this year so hopefully no other club offers him top 17 money any time soon. How many years does Moses have left in first grade? He is 31 this year so could be another four or five years depending on how his body holds up.
I recall early on in that year when Moses didn't ice those clutch moments in those early tight games we lost and a lot of chatter on here was is he worth the money and has it become a distraction.
Yep, I felt he looked distracted early that year....
Agreed. The point is it's the player who dragged his arse, not us.
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Bloody hell, Paulo has trimmed down
