Right - I've had enough.
I am sick to death of seeing comments on here about how DCE should offer to take a pay cut.
Are people being serious here? The captain of QLD, the Australian Half Back, one of our most successful players of all time (and likely most successful captain the way he is doing)
He is literally paid unders these days compared to the stupid money being thrown around for some 10 game wonders in the media. Yet some people on here have the audacity to suggest that HE is the guy who should take a pay cut in order to facilitate the resigning of a journeyman prop and a known 'home trouble maker' (I chose my words carefully there)?
Ask yourself this question - if the best player in the market came onto the market (I don't care who you think is the best...... insert any name really) and Manly want to sign them, that player would sit back and ask themselves ;
Wow, Manly have made a great offer to me. But they tend to bully their best players into taking pay cuts mid way through their contract in order to sign other players'.
Would YOU sign with a club who does that? MID CONTRACT?
What a stupid frikkin idea. When NEW contracts are being negotiated, some people may be willing to look their declining future in the eye and take a lower contract offer in their twilight years. I am cool with that.
But DCE has 4 frikkin years left on his contract people. He is our best player. He is our most successful player. He is fabulous in the media. And he is literally on UNDERS compared to stupid offers to players like K Pongya
I am sure the same people will blame DCE as soon as any player signs elsewhere.
