@Swordy said:
Why tell a player to look around? Simple really. He is on 100K, and his manager says " I want an upgrade because my man is worth 200K elsewhere".
Tigers reply is " Well, we have him for another year on 100K. We wont be paying 200K for him. If you can get more, then look around and see what you come up with. We might not need him. Good luck".
Two options then happen. He looks elsewhere and gets his money AND the club is happy for him to go, or he doesn't and comes crawling back, still with a year to run on what he is being payed and the club wins the bluff contest.
In this case, he got shopped around by his manager, never wanted to go, thought the Tigers were punting him because they were punting everyone else, so in his mind he has probably accepted that he has to go. Never wanted to in the first place, would much rather have stayed, but is now in that position.
Crunch time
Then when the time comes, they do need him, have a rock solid year to go on the contract. He really didn't want to go so he is happy to stay, and the club decide to keep him.
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I'm not sure it is all his fault. Unfortunate yes, all his fault, No.
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As for Gibbsy? I would have liked him to stay too, but he is closer to 30 than 20, has a number of injuries that could play havoc with his latter years, and probably got offered way more to go, so he is happier to press and get the biscuits! Good luck to him…
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Everyone wants to be a one club player, local junior, part of the furniture. Gibbsy could have stayed, had a contract AND would have got payed his entitlements. He chose to look elsewhere and made the ultimate decision to move on. If he wanted to stay, he could have. The contract was there, Just not for the money he wanted and that's fair enough!
Good post swordy...great post, crunch time imo is when things went pear shaped
I'm guessing Humpty got peeved big time at Dousts announcement on our game day with parra and decided to clutch his cards closer to his chest....hence the delay with the deeds of realease, the Lui thing a mere coincidence but we are probably lucky he did what he did.
I wonder if Humpty did give tauber his word....and I wonder what the difference was in Moltzs two contracts?