Yep we backended his deal at the time because that worked for us, whilst this time front ending the deal works for us.
Your points about his flaws are valid, and it's not a given that he's going to become an absolute star. But I think there's enough to point to it being a pretty good chance...
Teams that overpay are never successful? We are paying a geriatric Tom Lynch 1.4 mil a year and we won two flags that we wouldn't have won without him.
The idea of front loading the contract is so we don't have to pay him 1.6 million in 5 years time.
If in 5 years time we have 6-7 players...
The $ really doesn't matter all that much at the moment, we are going to have boatloads of cap room.
If we could land him for this years 2 first rounders (in a supposedly weak & compromised draft) and he's happy to have his contract heavily front ended over the next 2-3 years then I'm all in.
It's a massive money grab and the ticket prices are out of control, but people keep turning up in their droves so can we really blame them?
A ground pass for the 1st round games on a Monday & Tuesday used to be so much fun, games on all the outside courts, so much to choose from. Now you'll be...
I don't think Bianco shown much at all while playing for the Pies. Haven't seen any of him this year so I guess it doesn't count for much, but I would prefer to take someone untried.
I think with the police saying "this was a deliberate act" and "this was not a hit and run" we can probably read between the lines and conclude that she wasn't hit by a car and then murdered? Seems like they are trying to allude to the fact that the accused has set out with an intention to...