Re: Is the Pryce right? : Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:30 pm
Adeybull wrote:
Bet you have not talked with the reporter on the "Local rag"? Or Followed his track record? He is a smart guy, trust me, and knows his credibility depends on him usually calling it right. As indeed he almost always does. On his twitter, he says he put the article together from a number of sources.
As for the funds? Things have changed quite a bit up at Odsal in recent months, indeed weeks. Its a rather different set-up now, with a board now of three full-time executive directors including a new marketing director who has been putting a lot of work into funds generation. You might be surprised.
Incentive? Dunno...but if Leon was to be headed this way anyway in 2012 on a long-term deal you could have the identical situation we had with a potentially disgruntled Sam Burgess.
As for the funds? Things have changed quite a bit up at Odsal in recent months, indeed weeks. Its a rather different set-up now, with a board now of three full-time executive directors including a new marketing director who has been putting a lot of work into funds generation. You might be surprised.
Incentive? Dunno...but if Leon was to be headed this way anyway in 2012 on a long-term deal you could have the identical situation we had with a potentially disgruntled Sam Burgess.
and thats maybe the key point saints fans are missing. They can certainly force leon to fulfil his contract. They cant make him play well.
Sts are potentially in the same boat as us with orford and buirgess last year, and leeds with eastwood. We are all stating that we are only going to release the player for £x amount. The reality is that the figure the selling club asks for is usually just a sop to the fans the real figure is usually much more reasonable and usually undisclosed.
As a hypothetical example, say leon is on 120k a year and his injury will force him to miss first 3 months of season. He goes into saints board and makes it clear he is returning to bradford at end of 2011 season no matter what they offer him and would prefer a release now. bradford make a reasonable offer for said release, say 50k.
saints can either
1. pay leon 60k for doing nothing recovering then another 60k for making a less than 100% effort for remainder of season. He then leaves for nothing.
2. give leon the release he wants and get 50k from bradford. They also free up 120k of salary cap for their new coach to spend on players who want to be their (either extensions to lomax,eatmond or a new player entirely).
Other benefit for saints is that they are probably going to see reduced crowds and hence revenue next year whilst playing at widnes (we certainly did during our time at VP and that was much close to odsal than Widnes is to st helens), so it may be attractive to them to lose one of there higher paid stars (who they will lose a year later anyway) and also get some ready cash coming in to offset the reduced crowd revenue.
Certainly not as clear cut as we want 150k and thats it. and lets not forget they cant sell pryce in the short term to anyone else unless he agrees.
