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.