So we don't have to carry his Salary according to reports.
That's a relief.
That's a relief.
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If hindsight was a recruiting factor every team would be premiership favourites.I suppose it's easy to say his recruitment was a stuff up by the club with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it's an oversimplification to look at it that way, every deal is a matter of risk vs reward. We have to remember at the time the we had just won a premiership and we were aiming to win another in the short term future. The forward line was identified as a weakness given it was quite makeshift in 2012 with a 20 year old Reid and an ageing Goodesy as our key targets.
It's pretty common knowledge that key forwards are difficult to recruit so you have to pay a premium and generally they go high in the draft and take years to develop. So given with Kurt Tippett we had a rare opportunity to address a need without trading away any of our established best-22 players at the time, and considering there was no way to predict that Buddy would nominate us as his preferred destination a year later I think the decision to recruit Tippett at the time made sense. Although some of the details of the deal were questionable - for instance, the trigger clause seemed unnecessary on surface value.
Anyway, unfortunately on this occasion the investment didn't pay off. Not the first time that's happened and won't be the last. Good luck to Kurt on his next phase in life and hopefully the cap space that gets freed up makes a difference in helping us retain someone like Aliir going forward.
After reading it Id bank on all of 2018s, some of 2019s and none of 2020s is my guess.So we don't have to carry his Salary according to reports.
That's a relief.
Don't worry people are going to ramp up their Reid & Towers hate. We'll always have a scapegoatNow when we suck, we're just gonna suck.
The more I think about this the more I hate it.
Really liked his play when fit. Plus my kids have used him as a measure for years now- "Is he/it as tall as Kurt Tippet?" Now we'll have to find a new measure.
And there's the part where he has been "just around the corner" for a while now with his injury - so promised upside to how the team was going to go when he came back.
Now when we suck, we're just gonna suck.
Chin up! Who knows, we may see a leading forward this year!
This indicates middle of 2016 but think it was a bit earlier than that - https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...e/news-story/d4486948b12266a8d28cad58e48fdd5aWhen did he extend until 2020? I don't remember seeing that being announced at all.
Not necessarily his fault. He performed in 2013, 2015 and the first half of 2016, for instance. He couldn't control the fact that his body kept letting him down and that the club asked him to play out of position (which, again, he did commendably at in 2015 and early 2016).
Great post, couldn't agree moreYou know, week after week, we ask of our great club and its players a performance better than the other guys. Week after week we want courage, effort, support for each other, honesty, and all the rest of what it takes for our club to remain competitive year after year.
And what do we as supporters give? Some of the most ill-informed, ill-considered, cowardly vitriol that we can muster?
And why? Only because we can. Because we sit anonymously behind computer screens knowing that our written words carry no consequences.
Tippo, mate, if you're reading this, you've achieved what 99% or more of us can only dream of. Congratulations on a fantastic career and may your next venture be as successful, and hopefully not as derided as your time with the Bloods. I met your parents at Geelong and they are a delightful couple. And you are an absolute credit to them.
To those so called supporters who feel the need to sledge a bloke on the way out, have a good hard look at yourselves. There are people who talk about it (that's us) and there are people who do it (that's Tippett). When "talkers" slag off "doers", it's so pathetic it makes me want to vomit.
Would you be comfortable saying we overpaid for AJ over the past 5 years? Because he's been on the books and done * all.There is always a dozen excuses for non performance of any player, in the end none of them matter
Did the player, in this case Tipper perform well for Sydney? Nup, 25% of games he was good/very good. The rest bordered on poor to average
Was the player value for money for Sydney? Hell no! We overpaid big time and ended up with an overpaid dud
Very nicely said!! It is pathetic!You know, week after week, we ask of our great club and its players a performance better than the other guys. Week after week we want courage, effort, support for each other, honesty, and all the rest of what it takes for our club to remain competitive year after year.
And what do we as supporters give? Some of the most ill-informed, ill-considered, cowardly vitriol that we can muster?
And why? Only because we can. Because we sit anonymously behind computer screens knowing that our written words carry no consequences.
Tippo, mate, if you're reading this, you've achieved what 99% or more of us can only dream of. Congratulations on a fantastic career and may your next venture be as successful, and hopefully not as derided as your time with the Bloods. I met your parents at Geelong and they are a delightful couple. And you are an absolute credit to them.
To those so called supporters who feel the need to sledge a bloke on the way out, have a good hard look at yourselves. There are people who talk about it (that's us) and there are people who do it (that's Tippett). When "talkers" slag off "doers", it's so pathetic it makes me want to vomit.
Yep, like people posting here couild do better...........................You know, week after week, we ask of our great club and its players a performance better than the other guys. Week after week we want courage, effort, support for each other, honesty, and all the rest of what it takes for our club to remain competitive year after year.
And what do we as supporters give? Some of the most ill-informed, ill-considered, cowardly vitriol that we can muster?
And why? Only because we can. Because we sit anonymously behind computer screens knowing that our written words carry no consequences.
Tippo, mate, if you're reading this, you've achieved what 99% or more of us can only dream of. Congratulations on a fantastic career and may your next venture be as successful, and hopefully not as derided as your time with the Bloods. I met your parents at Geelong and they are a delightful couple. And you are an absolute credit to them.
To those so called supporters who feel the need to sledge a bloke on the way out, have a good hard look at yourselves. There are people who talk about it (that's us) and there are people who do it (that's Tippett). When "talkers" slag off "doers", it's so pathetic it makes me want to vomit.
Great post, couldn't agree more
I think there’s a middle ground. When you’re being paid that much, and other guys are accepting less as a consequence, it’s on you to be a better do-er.
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Would you be comfortable saying we overpaid for AJ over the past 5 years? Because he's been on the books and done **** all.
You know, week after week, we ask of our great club and its players a performance better than the other guys. Week after week we want courage, effort, support for each other, honesty, and all the rest of what it takes for our club to remain competitive year after year.
And what do we as supporters give? Some of the most ill-informed, ill-considered, cowardly vitriol that we can muster?
And why? Only because we can. Because we sit anonymously behind computer screens knowing that our written words carry no consequences.
Tippo, mate, if you're reading this, you've achieved what 99% or more of us can only dream of. Congratulations on a fantastic career and may your next venture be as successful, and hopefully not as derided as your time with the Bloods. I met your parents at Geelong and they are a delightful couple. And you are an absolute credit to them.
To those so called supporters who feel the need to sledge a bloke on the way out, have a good hard look at yourselves. There are people who talk about it (that's us) and there are people who do it (that's Tippett). When "talkers" slag off "doers", it's so pathetic it makes me want to vomit.
Tippet will be remembered for achieving a top 1% salary for being a mid range payer at best
It has zero to do with doers and non-doers
If you had a middle-manager getting paid double the rest of your managers and his work was below average for 70% of his employment, should you be shouting to the sky about supporting him for being a manager?
Or should you be questioning why he was given so much money for such average performance, and for the sake of your company, be cheering that crap manager has gone?
As a club supporter, we now have to support and cheer the mediocre as if they are heroes?
He was able to play, but much of those 4 years were spent playing through serious pain. We wouldn't have given him the contract if we knew that his body was going to fall apart, but we didn't know that, and he didn't know that, when he signed the contract. We overpaid him, sure, but to take shots for a bloke for not playing at his best while often playing through pretty serious injury (i.e. playing on an ankle that needed surgery for a full season) is just embarrassing. Forget about the contract and just judge his performances for what they were.You are comparing a player who was physically unable to play for 4 years (on minimum wage) with a player who WAS physically able to play who was on TOP $$$???
It doesn't come much funnier than that comparison