barks4eva wrote:as soon as tomorrow there is every chance Thomas will make good his threat to officially sue the club for more money.
IF SO
This slimy svengali snakeoil salesman will be exposed for the fraud and charlatan that he is in relation to his" I love this club" and the so called "he bleeds red, white and black " that you hear repeatedly from the desciples of the gospels of Thomas
Thomas was paid 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS by this football club for his services and even had three all expenses paid overseas holidays disguised as training camps thrown in to the package
Thomas recieved ALL money that he was contractually obligated for
Thomas tried to negotiate $500,000 bonuses into his contract for premierships, probably an easy way to pay back the million dollars he borrowed from Butterss he would have no doubt thought at the time and the board relented by conceding a $500,000 bonus for two premierships not one but inserted a clause that his services could be terminated at any time with no financial payout.
Thomas's wrangling brought about this irregular contractual arrangement to begin with!
The board made a decision to pay Thomas money he was not contractually obligated to recieve as a settlement package IF he went quietly, and in the boards view he broke the conditions of this agreement and so therefore is not entitled to the extra hush money
We also hear of this money Thomas is now claiming, that he never had a holiday and wants $60,000 in holiday pay, if true then this is an outrageous claim
When you consider the sacrifices that so many footballers made to keep this club in existence by taking 22.5 cents in the dollar with the scheme of arrangement payments, Thomas trying to screw more money out of a football club after he has already recieved TWO and a HALF MILLION DOLLARS is galling in the extreme.
Thomas became coach through a farcical process, without any previous AFL coaching experience and was paid $500,000 a year straight up
Thomas should be grateful that he was paid more than what he should have been to begin with even aside from the dubious nature of his intial appointment
Also interesting to not, that back in the eighties when all these players were making huge financial sacrifices to keep the club in existence, that Thomas was not owed one cent and recieved all monies coming to him and then did a runner to North where he thought he could earn more money there
The only bleeding of red, white and black that Thomas does comes off the clubs bottomline
FAIR DINKUM and I do mean FAIR DINKUM