The cynical part of me thinks perhaps Tippett was given some monetary help in retiring to stop him just eating up cap whilst on the injured list, which he surely would have. The deal would suit both parties. No wonder Harley didn't go into details !
No doubt this is all true, but if the Swans get considerable salary cap relief Harley wouldn't want to disclose that as it would surely bring the wrath of the Melbourne journos that we orchestrated yet another 'fix', just like the Buddy deal and the original Tippett signing as well.
Reading between the lines, as well as seeing the wry smile on Longmire's face when talking about the retirement, I get the distinct feeling that the management are over the moon about what they just pulled off.
There's a lot of jealousy and enmity about just how good the our back office is.
More the question is how long have we known the end was around the corner. The recent restructure of his deal raises a few questions in that respect.
He ate more cheese, than time allowed
None of that makes any sense to me.
While clubs may jealously guard the details of their salary cap from other clubs, every single club will be all over the rules of the cap, and the ways it can be "managed". Whatever relief is available to Sydney for a player forced to retire through injury is available to every other club in the same situation. You make it sound like the Swans are doing something dodgy, which I can't see how is possible.
I also don't see anything in public statements to suggest this has somehow been orchestrated by the club. I think some are reading between the lines and projecting their own Tippetviews onto statements that have been made publicly.
Not dodgy, just astute. And I don't think that all clubs handle these things as well as the Swans do.
Maybe I am reading more into this thing than has been made public, but there is enough there to suggest that Swans wanted this outcome with Tippett and made it happen.
I also believe and still maintain that Tom Mitchell was forced out by low balling his contract offer and was another outcome that the Swans wanted to ensue . Note that we haven't drafted anyone like Tom in the past 2 drafts since his departure, but rather loaded up on speedy outside runners.
My feeling was that the club would have preferred a fit and firing tippo to be playing next few seasons not the retirement option
The issue also with the ankle was two fold. Kurt said that firstly the recon was on his jumping leg so major problem as a ruckman and secondly his surgeon wanted to do a very slow rehab. At Xmas Kurt said he was way behind where he hoped to be
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