Booney wrote:Dutchy wrote:At the end of the day if he was hellbent on staying he would have signed by now.
With being a restricted free agent and Crows being able to match Geelongs offer is there any rules around the tenure of the contract? i.e. If Geelongs offer is 5 years and the Crows match it does that mean he is a Crows player for the full 5 years or only until he becomes an unrestricted free agent?
Not sure there.
What if :
Geelong offer to sign him to a 2 year deal worth $2.0m. Then 6 months in sign him to a 3 year extension at $500k P.A meaning it's $3.5 over 5 years = $700k P.A
Adelaide would only be obliged to match the initial 2 year $2.0m contract to keep him (as the 3 year extension could be hidden) , unlikely. If they were to have to match $700k P.A for 5 years they'd do it easily.
Further to Dutchy's question, is there a minimum contract length for restricted free agents?
Anyway, my gut feel is that he's staying now, it wasn't up until the last week or two.
Sounds like something we would do *cough* Tippett *cough*