Proper Gander
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Actually I recall McKay more or less went “holy shit no - not them” when he got wind of that media invented trade to facilitate the Trac move.Clubs are just so bloody passive tbh. In some hypothetical scenario where he did crack it and decide to leave. As unpopular as it would have been and as big a media bullshit as it would have been, I still think we could have come out of it ahead.
In the same way that Carlton would never ever trade out McKay to solve issues because clubs refuse to be proactive, almost no club outside of Collingwood when they did their salary cap save and had Treloar crying on tv even though he ****ed over GWS almost no club pro actively tries to improve. They just sit with their cards their dealt and hope it works.
I do think there is a real fear of managers though, and I sometimes wonder whether our Australian law might interfere with the forced trades that you see in some overseas sports? We all talk about the price that an opposing team will need to fork out for a contracted player who wants to move, but I can’t imagine a contract devised between a club and player that wouldn’t ask for a serious penalty from their club that pushes them out.