If reports of $270K being offered are right then that is nowhere near being reasonable. He should have had a straight up $1mil over 3 years to start with.
You don't know what any of them are getting paid though, do you? And you certainly don't know that the money going to Higgins is what is stopping us signing Greenwood. After all, you said:
If we lose Greenwood because we offered Higgins $400K per annum then my family membership will not be renewed.
Maybe each of Cunnington, Goldstein, Wells, Harvey and Ziebell are on $10k a year too much. Maybe
that money is the sticking point and not the Higgins' contract which could be for a very normal amount.
Ben Jacobs, McKenzie just to name a few in the last 2 years. Yeh, those working at the club always know better. When you have a gun like Greenwood you don't let him walk. We get pick 10 or 15 or 25 for him and we pick up a player who then has a 50% chance of being decent in 2-3 years. Yeh Nah good business move that one.
McKenzie and Jacobs are on their second career contracts. But yes, those "bad" decisions are evidence the club is stuffing it up with Greenwood, and those two are probably on $500+ a year.