Easy on the personal attack buddy. You are not the Messiah on here and comments like yours are why many older posters have left Nicks as per another thread. We can have different views and opinions but comments like that diminish peoples desire to bother contributing which was discussed in the thread about older posters and where had they gone.Pies4shaw wrote:That’s not remotely an answer to the point I made - and unless you’re actually simple, you must know that. You were proposing that he should just agree to take a pay cut and I said in substance that that was a stupid piece of nonsense. If you think there’s some reason why a fellow who has a contract that entitles him to be paid $4.5 million, say, would agree to accept $3.5 million - when you know no one else in their right mind would do that, perhaps you might explain what it is. It strikes me that such a proposal would be just disingenuously jerking around an employee who’d accepted a deal in good faith. Grundy may well leave - all the other indications are that he probably will - but he’s simply not going to take a pay cut to do so - whatever his new club agrees to pay, Collingwood will be forking out the difference.slangman wrote:The fact that it’s a multi million dollar business is why the discussion will be had. Players get traded and/or delisted whilst still under contract and they also regularly seek to break their contract for a better offer at another club.Pies4shaw wrote:Oh, slangman, I forgot - football isn’t a multi-billion dollars business and the players should be grateful to be paid. Time for you to live in the universe we inhabit, I reckon.
I live in the universe where Treloar got traded against his will and have no doubt that the club will do the same with Grundy if they thought that it was in the best interest of the club.
I have not said that he “should” take a pay cut and if you read my original post correctly, I did state that he had every right to refuse a pay cut if asked.
The jungle drums are beating regarding his contract and performances. The million dollar business you mentioned is becoming more and more ruthless and if you can’t see that Grundy staying at Collingwood is a 50/50 proposition at this moment then you must have some inside info that nobody else is aware of. The only reason there is even a discussion is because of the value for money aspect.
I would like nothing more than he stays and gets back to his AA form for the remainder of his contract. But his age and last 3 years are not exactly on his best arguments.
Collingwood will no doubt have to pay some of his wage but that’s is a value for money decision that the club will have to make.
Either way, it will be an interesting trade period for Collingwood.
