Interesting about 2 mins of a 40 odd minute podcast is the clickbait headline.
As I wrote earlier, he bagged Des, the board, Tooves and indirectly Wolfie too but they're not in the frame anymore.
And as for Chez wanting more money or boycotting training it would have been his manager that was agitating for that and if you respect your manager you'll take his advice as that is what you're paying him for.
Also factor in that he left Qld at 18 to play NYC for Manly and in his 2nd year helped win the minor premiership and along with Foz, JWH and Buhrer made the NYC team of the year (2009)
Then sent back to Q Cup to play reggies for us where they came third, was Rookie and Player of the year and captained the Qld Residents team. ( 2010 )
Topped off the next year with an NRL Premiership (2011)
So in the space of three years he went from a nobody to being named by the
Rugby League International Federation in its
annual awards as the world's best halfback for 2011. *thanks Wiki
If that had happened to most of us we would probably suffer from a big case of FIGJAM syndrome too.
I would think his manager wouldn't have been doing his job if he didn't stick his hand out and hold Manly over a barrel to get a substantial pay rise.
Yes, there's always the argument, just wait you'll get a pay rise soon but footballers are one injury away from it being all over so take it while you can.