VFL 2017 Round 3: Northern Blues vs Coburg at Coburg

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On Daisy's 15 games to a contract extension just to clear something up:

I believe this was a caveat on his original contract, to ensure that if his body didn't recover as expected, we could end the contract a year earlier and that the number of games was quite a lot higher over the journey.

It wasnt to do with his "final season".

My thinking is that had he not had his shoulder stuffed against Richmond two years ago, this would have been a moot point by now, and that he would have already met the conditions to get his 5th year.

I also fully expect that we have been front loading our big contracts and that our 95% of our salary cap has well and truly paid for Daisy by now.

Yes, I agree Thry, the "15 game" stuff and the "1/2 wage" is just media speculation that they have all picked up and ran with.

As an experiment I went back through the media reports over the last four or five years to find Daisy's wage has steadily grown, it seems the more injuries and problems he had the more we paid him. Lucky bastard! ;D

If I recall correctly what his manager said was that the extension year wage of Daisy's contract would be considerably less than the main years, and that he had to meet performance criteria to qualify for the last year. His manager never mentioned any figures, or if the criteria was meet or yet to be meet, if he had it would have effectively meant the end of his career as a player manager!