Quote Originally Posted by jazzadogs View Post
What I never understood is why it mattered what each club was doing - don't we have 3 million to structure over 5 years, and they have 1.5 million to structure over 5 years? They're separate contracts so why do we have to front end the contract at all?

Couldn't we just pay our 600k per year, and if the Pies chose to pay 0, 0, 500k, 500k, 500k then that's their choice/problem?
Clearly Collingwood needed some agreement from us to help them out of a big hole. Possibly they are at their limit for 2021 due to the Beams debacle, meaning we are probably funding the whole $900K next year, but getting some relief over the remainder.

It might even give us an extra $100K to massage into contracts for Bont/Baz/Dunks for the following years