Mackay getting 4 years is LOL worthy. He's not top 5 for any category applicable to midfielders at the crows (possessions, contested possessions, clearances, inside 50's or rebound 50's). And 8th - 10th for most of those. At 26 to be worth 4 years he should be top 5 in a couple. Especially considering Adelaide missed out on the first round picks to recruit gun youngsters like Wines or Wingard to push him down the list.
You can see it's a two pronged panic / attack strategy going through their minds. The panic is signing up average (at best) players to over long contracts due to all the bail outs they've suffered (especially compared to us, when they've been higher up the ladder the last few years). And the attack is have their lackies in the local media try to manufacture a sense of panic in our ranks and try to get players to bail.
If we can keep quietly signing players to contracts that are sensible, whilst Clangerfields non-signature continues, then they'll keep up the over inflated spud holds to keep Beryl and Mavis at bay. And ensure whether clangerman stays or goes will become irrelevant as they'd have so stuffed their list up regardless.