Personally I think this is the crux of the issue here.Scollop wrote: ↑Wed 04 Sep 2024 9:26pm
What are the lessons to be learned here?
In a way….I think the club is as much to blame for the situation and perhaps you could even say, they engineered his exit (in the hope that we’d get very good compensation similarly to the compo pick we got for losing Gresham).
Maybe somewhere along the line this year, they re-evaluated his worth to the team.
The absolute cardinal sin for coaches/list managers etc is to overrate their talent and pay bigger money to players that don’t deserve it to keep them… while ignoring the important question of how do we make the list better.
I liked Battle a lot. My feeling is that he played an easier position and looked really good around Wilkie and to a lesser degree Howard.
Keeping him at $400-600k would have been coup for the club. $800k+ is elite money and I’m not sure he’s that, especially if we can cover the position.
All in all, like Gresham I suspect the strategy is we can cover the position for a lot less and gain possibly a FRD pick with the view of seeking out elite talent.
Rumour has it that he commands an $800-900k salary that he is def not worth.
It feels like a good strategy… unless of course you fluff the recruitment which is a distinct possibility, hence the old bird in the hand saying.
and despise the Pies, the Blues, and the Injectors.
