The Herald article 4-5 weeks ago indicated that the 1 year was a sticking point. Was probably along the lines of " if you can get two elsewhere come back to us".
Where is Griff involved in these shenanigans?
The Herald article 4-5 weeks ago indicated that the 1 year was a sticking point. Was probably along the lines of " if you can get two elsewhere come back to us".
Where is Griff involved in these shenanigans?
Lawrie McKinna is on a hiding to nothing with some people here.
The same people that wanted to get rid of Roy are now critical of the club for not offering him a better deal.
If we do manage to sign Roy people will be saying oh no he's too old, he gets suspended too often.
Embrace the shit show or find another club.
I think he's our best option and not signing him will be a massive mistake - he seems sound enough for a two year deal as well.
yeah look we are garbage again, after finding lightning in a bottle last year and selling key parts of it before the finals.
more accessible? our players have generally been ok the whole time, but i dont think any of it is because of the CEO. 2 min after the final whistle in the last home game of the year 1/2 the team went to the sheds. a few legends like Dimi, Georgevski (in a suit), Thurgate, Joey hung around to talk to the fans/kiddies. No sign of our captain, no sign of our CEO.
He is untrustworthy, and cant lie straight in bed. He's 'well liked' because he has good relationships with the media (see also: Nelmes. Nuatail,). They tell HIS stories, HIS way. You only have to go back to the kit release fiasco last year to see how he handles a meaningless 'crisis'.
One Jet for the flyby. FFS.
Hes a Gypo.
There is no hope, there never really was.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
FFS
I will state clearly I don't think we should have offered him.a deal period as I believe we need better and can find better options etc
But I see why these useless ****s want to resign him with his 11 goals in 18 games this year etc
Yeah he got some in and I can see why they would take the easy approach etc
But we are quick to slag these dumb ****s giving the likes of Topor a 2 year deal at 35
Giving Boogaard a contract extension before a game has even been played etc
These are what you call short sighted decisions
We could err on the side of caution but no we lock in aging players early
In this instance we have done the right thing
1 year deal for a bloke his age and with his discipline record is fair enough
The dumb decision here is Brisbane
In the past they have had Berisha Maclaren and Taggz up front
Young and in their prime
Now they signing a bloke with a lot of baggage long term in his later years
That is the type of dumb shit we do
Praise Griff for this
Maybe Griff is in part to blame?
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
why do you do that thing where you quote a post, give it a little huff, then proceed to write down your counter argument even though you werent writing anything even remotely related to what i was saying?
im beginning to think you are actually legally blind and just rub you hand on the screen until you feel a post you can argue about. then you bash your face against the keys until your Stephen Hawking decoder congratulates you on making up some real live grown up words.
its art.
what really worries me is we won't get a better option, there'll be nothing out there so we'll panic and offer Riera or Bonevacia overs to come to our shit fest, and they'll be even shittier than Jardel, be lucky to score three goals all season, and we'll secure another spoon - hope Martin realises nobody will want to buy us, he may as well hand the licence back to FFA now...
Life isn't the same without Con... but it can only improve without Tinks...
NBN on Roy cut loose - including comical comments about how we have big $$$ to replace him in our ever shrinking budget:
http://video.nbnnews.com.au/roygone060519.mp4
Life isn't the same without Con... but it can only improve without Tinks...
ok, so if you think im being unreasonable on the gypo ceo, just watch this.
he starts off (on camera naturally) telling everyone how the club didnt think he was worth more than a 1 year deal but then Roys peeps came back and before he could finish the sentence had to interrupt himself to throw in that "we withdrew the offer".
again, just reminding everyone watching that he wears the big boy pants. ****ing laughable.
he then goes on about all these dope players that we get offered, and that getting a replacement aint no thang..........but then transitioning into saying we'll be filling the squad with locals (the Tomi Juric sweepstakes is still live lads caaarrrnnn).
but then the kicker......
he then tells a cracker of a story about how 'joel' was in negotiations to sign Ikonomidis when he first thought of coming back, and we were SOOOOOOOOOOOO close to signing him.........but that 'JOEL' didnt get the deal done.
not the club, not the front office, not the recruitment team........but JOEL was the one who couldnt get it done.
now humour me for a minute.
if Ikonomidis had indeed signed, who do you think would have been front and centre at the press conference, doing the interviews, and telling everyone how awesome he is. yep, the gypo himself.
so in summary:
all the good things that happen at the Jets = gypo does them.
all the bad things that happen at the Jets = someone else not named the gypo ceo does them.
what a complete clown.
500k left of the cap apparently. Probably end up with chianese and 1 or 2 cheap foreigners. I wouldn't mind an African for a change
Losing Georgie, Roy, Jair, Cowburn, Kwabs & Adelson from the cap would be far more value than 500k spare. Georgie and Roy alone would have cost us more than that value - by Lawrie's own words, Roy was on "near-marquee wages" and the reports say we even offered him more than he was currently on for next year.
To replace a starting wide back, starting striker, and an attempt at a starting winger/striker.. and then 3 squad players.. and note we have 4x visa spots available.. we're going to need more than 500k. What is minimum salary, 60k? The three squad players take up at least 180k of that 500. So we have 320k for a starting striker, starting wide back, and fringe winger/striker. That is 107k per starting player on average available. It is not enough.
EDIT: I have just remembered Millar is already signed. He would be Georgie's replacement. So we have 320k spare for a starting striker and fringe winger/striker, which is 160k each. It is still not enough.
Last edited by pv4; 07-05-2019 at 10:06 AM.
OK
And yes I agree 500K isn't enough