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I think I understand now how things work in the bizarro world inhabited by EF fans. A club and player sit down, on equal footing, to sign a two year contract, including agreed match payments. That contract is subject to a clause that the player may liaise with rival clubs. If any rival club makes a higher offer than the agreed match payments, the club is obliged to re-negotiate and match the offer. If the club declines, the player can exercise an option to terminate the contract and play for the rival club. Meanwhile, the player, not the coach, gets to decide what on field position he plays in. If the coach objects, that triggers another "get out" clause.

Throughout all this, the rival club that initiated the process by offering more money is allowed to sit back and claim to be entirely neutral. The player who lacks the basic decency to honour his contract is allowed to play the victim. The original club, which did nothing more than try to enforce its legal rights and remained prepared to welcome the player back, is vilified as mean and accused of forcing a good player out of the WAFL.

Nothing one-sided about any of that, is there?

Ted Nugent wrote: I think I understand now how things work in the bizarro world inhabited by EF fans. A club and player sit down, on equal footing, to sign a two year contract, including agreed match payments. That contract is subject to a clause that the player may liaise with rival clubs. If any rival club makes a higher offer than the agreed match payments, the club is obliged to re-negotiate and match the offer. If the club declines, the player can exercise an option to terminate the contract and play for the rival club. Meanwhile, the player, not the coach, gets to decide what on field position he plays in. If the coach objects, that triggers another "get out" clause.

To my understanding, that is nearly exactly what happened

Good to see you also admit that EF approached Leggett with a higher offer. Otherwise, it's amazing how my facetious posts are taken as serious comments by EF fans.

Ted Nugent wrote: Good to see you also admit that EF approached Leggett with a higher offer. Otherwise, it's amazing how my facetious posts are taken as serious comments by EF fans.

Why not spend less time navel gazing - the time you save could be diverted to improving your reading comprehension. Then you would be less likely to jump to so many conclusions. Never the less good to hear your claims to knowing the precise details of every sporting contract ever drawn up and the exact thoughts of every non East Fremantle supporting WAFL fan on the Leggett/MRP saga were not meant to be taken seriously. Somehow though, despite there being more than just a whiff of spite about the place, I get the feeling you are serious about the complete nobility of MRP intentions in upholding the sanctity of the contract for the good of the game.

Ted Nugent wrote: Good to see you also admit that EF approached Leggett with a higher offer. Otherwise, it's amazing how my facetious posts are taken as serious comments by EF fans.

Says the fella who had a crack at whether my posts were serious or piss taking.....glad you guys got Quill in the end.....7K tho... what was Bobby thinking?

The guy who splits "nevertheless" into three separate words has a crack at my reading comprehension...

Ted Nugent wrote: The guy who splits "nevertheless" into three separate words has a crack at my reading comprehension...

My poor spelling hardly helps improve your reading comprehension though Ted.

Ted Nugent wrote: The guy who splits "nevertheless" into three separate words has a crack at my reading comprehension...

Ted not sure that any EF supporter would have a higher enough IQ.
They're all basically dumb.

Yep very true DF....us EF boys are as dumb as fark, continuing to follow a club that hasn't won a flag in 21 years, or played finals since 2014...not sure there is even a definition for you and your Perth boys level of dumbness, nor a recordable IQ low enough either for you Perth fans...I guess negative would be the minimum starting point....and continue to work backwards from there.

Demons Forever wrote:

Ted Nugent wrote: The guy who splits "nevertheless" into three separate words has a crack at my reading comprehension...

Ted not sure that any EF supporter would have a higher enough IQ.
They're all basically dumb.

Speaking of levels of IQ, I’d really like to know two things about you.1. Who do you get to write your posts and 2. Who do you get to read the responses to you. Probably also interesting to know who dresses you each morning.