Re: Is anyone else concerned?
Ok here is the thing that worries me. People say that he should get so and so amount of money because he is the best player at the club and because we have lots of room in our salary cap. The question is objectively does he deserve it based on his performances? Is simply being the best of a bad lot justification for that kind of money? It just makes me uneasy bearing in mind his inconsistencies (let's face it as number one draft picks go he has not been a world beater), and the amount of criticism that they attract, that he should be on that kind of money merely on that basis and because he might be threatening to leave.
Richmond has become legendary for overpayment rewarding underperformance. That's part of an era with the appointment of Hardwick that we want to leave behind. But to do that it needs to apply across the list not just in relation to the bottom end. I'm all in favour of giving him fair compensation in relation to objective performance criterias (league standards not Richmond) but not simply as part of the ongoing Richmond gravy train and that with the arguably the worst list in the league we don't have anyone better. Ultimately if he is that hung up about money then I'd be happy to grab draft picks to replace him. If we could get both Butcher and a quality midfielder we'd be silly not to seriously consider it.
Ok here is the thing that worries me. People say that he should get so and so amount of money because he is the best player at the club and because we have lots of room in our salary cap. The question is objectively does he deserve it based on his performances? Is simply being the best of a bad lot justification for that kind of money? It just makes me uneasy bearing in mind his inconsistencies (let's face it as number one draft picks go he has not been a world beater), and the amount of criticism that they attract, that he should be on that kind of money merely on that basis and because he might be threatening to leave.
Richmond has become legendary for overpayment rewarding underperformance. That's part of an era with the appointment of Hardwick that we want to leave behind. But to do that it needs to apply across the list not just in relation to the bottom end. I'm all in favour of giving him fair compensation in relation to objective performance criterias (league standards not Richmond) but not simply as part of the ongoing Richmond gravy train and that with the arguably the worst list in the league we don't have anyone better. Ultimately if he is that hung up about money then I'd be happy to grab draft picks to replace him. If we could get both Butcher and a quality midfielder we'd be silly not to seriously consider it.
