Grundy re-signs.

[Pies4shaw]

Kelly, who is half the footballer, just got a 6 year deal and Treloar is already contracted to the end of 2025. You can’t expect our best player to take less than is on offer for players with half his ability and a quarter his influence.

[K]

[Pies2016]

^ ^ ^

I guarantee if I was a current collingwood player and the club had to create a precedent to keep the best ruckman in the comp, I wouldn’t give a stuff about any precedent.
I would be a lot happier knowing we have just done whatever it took to allow us to remain a premiership chance.

[Geek]

^ ... unless they were your papers that the club stamped in order to free up the cap space

[BazBoy]

Matt Lloyd says this
Gary Lyon says that

Shut the :;:;;;up and leave it to Grundy & the club

Nothing but ruck makers

[K]

In fairness to Lloyd, he also says a lot about Daniher.

[Pies2016]

^ ^ ^
That’s a valid point in part but if I’m under contract at the club, then I’m not going anywhere without being paid out. Or if I am coming out of contract and I’m not wanted because of cap space, then there’s every chance you will find a new home with a club that does want you ( assuming you’re not a spud )
And if you are a spud, then your future was always limited in the first place.

There’s always fall out in salary cap management but these days the good clubs work a lot harder at setting you up elsewhere if you are part of the collateral damage.

[Pies4shaw]

I wonder whether Collingwood has the big 2020 re-signings better-covered than the media beat-up would have us believe. Subject to anything we do over the next few days, Collingwood has 20 players coming out of contract next year. Most of those are not “guns”. There are some untried kids (Bosenavulagi, Tohill, Tyler Brown, Will Kelly, Keane and Murphy), some role players (Mihocek, Mayne, Greenwood, Aish, Scharenberg, Appleby), developing youngsters (C Brown, J Daicos), a spare-part (Roughead) and the 5 big-ticket items (Pendlebury, Grundy, Cox, Moore and De Goey).

That’s effectively half our list. It looks to me like there is very substantial potential for doing what needs to be done, depending how those 20 players go over the season.

There’s also the 2019 list, comprised of Reid, Crocker, Varcoe, Madgen, Sier, Noble, Wells, Goldsack, Dunn, Lynch, Wills, Murray and Broomhead.

When you look at it like that, there are not too many players on inflexible contracts. They should be comfortably able to d what’s necessary - of course, it probably isn’t in the Club’s interest to put that message about: you’d probably want the big names to think that they need to meet us halfway.

[K]

[Pies2016]

[Dave The Man]

This might become one of the Longest Threads on Nicks Ever

[Pies4shaw]

Like all other "long" threads on Nick's, Dave, it will be mostly comprised of posts commenting on how long it is/is going to be.

[Geek]

[K]

[Skids]

Funny how Wiggles players have taken a pay cut to get Kelly there.... and our players are haggling for more money and longer contracts?