Rumour Eagles to keep Mitchell
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Contract is a contract at the end of the day. I'd be pretty disappointed if I were the Eagles.
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He's been good for them and has two years left. He's played/coached for almost two years now in WA. There's no compensation for losing coaches is there? They're more open-market than players
This isn't a troll btw
He's been good for them and has two years left. He's played/coached for almost two years now in WA. There's no compensation for losing coaches is there? They're more open-market than players
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they should force him to stay on the books and not work elsewhere. its a pretty low move to take up list and time resources and then just bail.
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I agree with you. You don't bail on a contract.
How do they expect him to Assistant Coach from Melbourne...my idea of an Assistant coach would be to be hands on with the players.
I can understand it if he's in a football management type role but he is an Assistant Coach
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Tell him he's got 2 options:
1. Pay out rest of his contract so he's out of pocket probably a million or more
2. Stay and complete his contract
None of this live in Melbourne crap which will affect the teams performance
1. Pay out rest of his contract so he's out of pocket probably a million or more
2. Stay and complete his contract
None of this live in Melbourne crap which will affect the teams performance
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make him the victorian Opposition scout Like Freo where going to do with Hird Win/Win for all
unless he is full of s**t and wants to go back solely to the Hawks....
unless he is full of s**t and wants to go back solely to the Hawks....
Well wherever/whatever that job, if it is with another AFL club then I would not have a problem with the Eagles holding him to his contract. They basically extended his career and eased him into coaching - sucks for him to just leave and the Eagles time, effort and money benefits some other club.
What time effort have they really put in though?? He hasn't learnt anything being at the Eagles in terms of coaching?
I don't disagree that bailing on a contract is a s**t thing and acknowledge that he would not,have played last year if they knew he was going back home straight away
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Don't' see why you'd force someone to see out their contract in a role they're not suited to when they're going to leave after the 2 years anyway.
They could’ve had someone else learning the Eagles systems the past two years.
I thought the idea of bringing him in was to add new things to the Eagles system that hadn't quite got the job done.
The role of assistant coaches is surely to bring in different approaches
That may be the case but regardless the Eagles have invested two years and whatever dollars when they were expecting four.
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LOL! Good luck with that. Would get laughed out of court.
They haven't paid him those dollars yet for the rest of his contract, so nothing to pay back.
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Thats what it sounds like it is. What kind of role could he be doing based in Melb? Fly in on matchday to be the runner or something?
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They should make it as annoying and inconvenient as possible.
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Actually most workplace contracts will have some sort of compensation for quitting early. He wouldn't be made to repay it all but he could very well be made to give the eagles some form of compensation
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Disagree. Most employment contracts (and I've seen my fair share) have a stipulated notice period, but rarely do they have clauses where one party must pay the other an amount of money, particularly after 2 years into the employment contract.
Some contracts have a bond for things like training costs, which needs to be paid pack to the employer if the contractor leaves before a certain time, but I've never heard of a 2 year bond, it's usually shorter than that.
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You're talking about on going contracts though. Contracts where someone signs up for 4+ years are a bit different. And the eagles could probably reasonably argue that Mitchell has been in training for these 2 years.
