I can see it being Penrith will just pay Cleary what he's getting from us for the next two seasons no more no less we wont get any compensation. The only other thing we can do is put Cleary on gardening leave and hope Penrith come to the party, Cleary has really boxed us into a corner i hope he falls flat on his face.
Not really. It's a negotiation. We can see what the best case scenario is for them and it's Ivan in 2019\. They have the financial clout to achieve their best case scenario. They would be stupid not to pursue their best case scenario given they are in a premiership window. We are a road block to their best case scenario. We require compensation to remove ourselves as a road block.
On the other side of the coin they know we don't want a dead duck coach - that's not best case scenario for us. But they are the ones who initiated this; they are the ones who really can't afford to squander two years; and they are the ones with the sacks full of cash.
If we play hard ball they will pay. It may not be a huge amount but they will pay because it's better for them to cough up some cash to get what they really want than to try to put one over another club.
It will come down to who is the better negotiator. Gus will have the power to make a call and tell the board what has happened. Pascoe won't have that authority.
Yeah but negotiation is ultimately about getting what you want, not screwing the other party as hard as you can. Cleary can say he's happy to see out his contract but that's an obvious lie. It does him no good in a negotiation. He does not want to spend two years with a team that's unlikely to perform for him, with a hostile player base and a set of fans that revile him. He wants to go.
Penrith do not want to spend two years with a rookie coach who is then going to be removed for Cleary regardless of his performance. They want Cleary now.
We do not want Cleary, but nor do we want to be in a position where we end up with a worse coach for the next two years. To get a coach of equivalent standing is going to cost more than it would cost us to just keep Cleary so we should insist on the Panthers paying the difference. That's a fair position to take. We don't try to screw them, we just try to make sure that we are not left any worse off by what they've done. We know they have the money to pay, they are not a hard up club. That's the balance line in this negotiation we just need to make all parties acknowledge it.