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immortalmike questioned at the time, the reason behind or motive in giving the news as the news of his brush-up with Zordy at the pub became public. If the information was known before that time, why only state it when Boyd was embroiled in controversy? That just heaps it on to a player of the club we all support and with news of that magnitude would probably get back to him indirectly and be pressure to him performing well.
If that information was only passed on to this board the moment it was received, the person who passed it on might also have an axe to grind to heap it onto Boyd in his controversy and there wasn't much critical thinking going on when the information was entirely correct (or that person generally is a reliable source, but for whatever reason is not in this instance).
The original info also had Bev worried about the salary cap implications and the fact that Boyd was taking a chunk out of the salary cap. This also runs contrary to what we've heard of Bev and his relationship with long-term planning and salary cap room, in that he hates it. We've heard from multiple sources including our list manager himself that in discussions with Bev when we'd tell him our "window" is in a few years from now, if we won the flag we'd be the least experienced and youngest to do so in the 21st century, etc. etc, Bev would have this belief of "there are no limits to what we could achieve" and he'd push confidence in the whole playing group. That doesn't seem like the same person who was worried about the intricacies of how Boyd's contract impacts the salary cap next year, or the fact he has such an interest in the salary cap he's willing to pay for part of Boyd's contract to trade him.
Combined with the most obvious evidence that he was emotional talking about Boyd being a turn around, I don't think there's any truth in the original post whatsoever. That's not to say what was posted here wasn't believed to be true at the time, if the post was made at the same time the source told the information it could just be whoever was a normally reliable source for whatever reason having an axe to grind against the Dogs/Boyd and passing on a little fib among otherwise reliable information.