Anyway, all attacks aside, this BMoz issue is going to come to a head soon. Imagine you were the head of this company and a rival company offered your employee more money...much more.
Now I'm not siding with anyone here but here are some facts:
- BMoz is already the highest paid winger in the comp and has a year to run on his current contract.
- One current NRL winger that is playing semi finals is leaving his club at the end of this year as he has accepted an increased contract from $80k to $150k pa. He is extremely happy about this deal. He has scored 17 tries this season.
- Another current NRL winger also in semi finals contention has accepted an upgraded 1 year contract to $120k pa. No bonuses or incentives, a flat fee of $120k. He actually earned more this year with incentives and bonuses but was told in no uncertain terms, 'that's it -take it or leave it!' He has scored 9 tries this season.
So your prized employee is looking for a massive increase and to top it off, your other employee, his counterpart, is also on a large salary for his position.
There is no doubting their worth to your organisation but your organisation has weaknesses in other areas that, by all accounts, need strengthening and will require additional funding.
What do you do if you're the one making the decisions? Emotions need to be removed from making a sound commercial decision. What is best for your 'team'? What is required to assist your 'team' to be more successful than the previous years?
Oh...and just a little thing to keep in mind... At all times you require a full component of 25 team members and you only have a certain amount of money budgeted to spend but where do you spend the money?
What dollar value do you place on sentimentality for a favourite son?
I hope he stays, I really do. I'm torn just thinking about the possibility of losing him. But what if we could access a Woods, or a McGuire or a Scott in areas that would probably overall help your teams performance? And possibly for less money...
It's a rock and a hard place for me and the longer this festers, the less confident I am of keeping him.
Either way, supporters will scream blue murder but if what I've been told is right, this decision may be taken out of our hands anyway. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
There is a lot of truth to what you have stated here, and always at points in most clubs histories they have to make agonisingly hard decisions regarding favourite sons.
The one thing to note though with your reference to the business world is that not many CEO's ,MANAGERS(or mismanagers) get to survive after making bad decisions that cost the organisation dearly unless of course you are the owner of the business personally then you cop it on the chin and the hip pocket.
There doesn't seem to be too much consequence from a lot of the poor decisions over the last 3 years, granted B MOZ hasn't as yet left the club.
Some of the poor decisions being Dan Hunt on ridiculous money for no return, paying overs for players just to get them to the club because players aren't that interested in playing for an ordinary team with an ordinary coach unless the price is right,Thompson and Widdop and Farrell to name a few.
Ok if the rumours are correct about BRETT the reason that they can't offer more dough is because of the knee jerk salary cap management of the passed couple of years which seemed to start with the early release of Jamie Soward( another dumb move ) not that he is being ridiculous looking for more money.
I am sure in his eyes he must believe he has earned that right as opposed to some of the other guys who have been in the joint 5 minutes and are on comparable money,and to be brutally honest the costly additions have done virtually nothing to improve our performance, sure you can roll out the stat sheet and say we scored more tries blah blah but the fact of the matter is the only stat that counts is 11TH ON THE LADDER.
Surely with the state that the club is in at the moment now is not the time to be letting one of our best pointscorers and biggest drawcards go and if this happens surely it is time to get rid of chief decision maker with regards to this matter also.
