Rumour (now a REPORT): Jordan DeGoey set to re-sign

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Why wouldn't De Goey go?

5 million over 5 years in the business that is AFL can set him up for life.

The rest is sentimentality.

Don't get me wrong, I hope he stays & want him to stay but Collingwood's offer has to be well up there I would have thought.

[Pies4shaw]

Yes, those are almost lawyers' takings.

[MagpiesTheGreat]

When Dayne Beams left, we got De Goey + J Crisp & L Greenwood.

Love to see JGD stay at the club. BUT if he leaves, who knows what we can get in return.

I trust the club will get the best possible deals for ourselves.

Maybe, just maybe, if he leaves, and we get so & so & so, and that sets us up to win another 3 flags in the years to come. Who knows. Gooooo Pies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[5 from the wing on debut]

[RudeBoy]

Leigh Mathews reckons he's not worth anywhere near that amount and not even amongst the top 50 players in the AFL. Thanks Lethal.

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[Streak]

I wouldn't blame him for going for the money. If I was his mate, I would absolutely advise him to do so.

I don't care how terrible the company, how crappy the offices, any discrepancy in the amount of work - if I was offered a 200k pay-rise, I would quit my job today. End of story. No looking back.

But in this high-profile club in a high-profile sport, the counter-weighing factors are these:

1. Jordy has worked towards a success we seem to be knotting together. That's a pretty powerful lure and to give up something you've built to go to a club that may never build anything... that's gotta give you pause.

2. That's a lot of value to attach to a kid. Are they over-valuing you? If you take their offer and deliver, congrats, you're a hero. But if you perform even a hair shy of expectations, you're a villain. Look how Pies supporters have treated and spoken about Chris Mayne for a year and a half.

3. Attendant to that, how much of your good form is innate, and how much has been inculcated in you by the systems and processes of the Collingwood Football Club? I don't say "you owe" sh_t, just that you want to consider staying, if you feel the club is pulling the best out of you.

4. What's a Collingwood Premiership Medallion worth to you? If a North Premiership Medallion +$1M is around the mark, do it. If not, don't.

[Haff]

Let�s just accept he is gone! Also we won�t get two first rounders. Remember he�s out of contract and can go into the draft if he wants and there�s not many examples of players going that option and not landing where they want.

[K]

Wayne Carey:

"But if De Goey is seriously considering leaving for the �Godfather� offer his manager referred to a few weeks ago, then perhaps he should think again."

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/big-money-de-goey-deal-too-risky-for-north-and-de-goey-20180628-p4zo7s.html

[Pies4shaw]

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[K]

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[Woods]

De Goey might be delaying his re-signing until Darcy Moore's contract situation is resolved. Both are very close mates and came to Collingwood from the Oakleigh Chargers (see the opening minutes of this club video from 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFuOmkHCYcA ).

So, the question may not be whether De Goey will re-sign with the Pies, but whether Moore will. Get one and you get the other. Both may prefer to stay at Collingwood but Buckley has said that currently Moore's place in the team is unresolved now that the Grundy/Cox combo has proved to be a success. Probably, Moore looks like playing a defender's role in the future which perhaps does not give him much joy if he has career ambitions for a Brownlow, of which he is capable of achieving one day. Another team may offer a forward role to Moore (and more money) and if he takes it De Goey may feel free to leave as well now that his best mate at the Pies is going.