Higgins in Contract Talks - How long would we give him?

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Re: Higgins in Contract Talks - How long would we give him?

Something that has been discussed previously is can we afford all of Boyd, Murphy, Morris, Gia all leave at the same time.

Do Gia and one other need to go at the end of 2014?

Gia end 2014
Boyd & Murphy end of 2015
Morris end of 2016.

It isn't an exact science, but it would be really interesting to see what JMAC currently thinks our list will look like from 2015 and beyond in terms of the older guys including Cooney and Minson.

This needs a thread of its own, it's such an important list management issue you raise Az.

I'm not sure if Morris has another 60 games in him.
Leaving Bob on 290 odd games, memories of Choco.
The argument from Cross going could be the same as Boyd this year.
Gia is confirmed as moving.
With Cooney's knees, it's not unthinkable he could retire earlier too.

We need to get this right.

[jeemak]

Re: Higgins in Contract Talks - How long would we give him?

I'm with others in saying on current fitness and form Higgins should be offered 2+1, and if he pushes us three with performance clauses loaded into the last year.

He should earn a fairly lucrative deal as far as our list is concerned, because the market dictates he should. By lucrative I'm talking second tier earnings, not top tier earnings.

Murphy and Morris are year by year propositions, and if Boyd sticks around he should be year by year as well. I'd be disappointed if we hadn't started planning for life without these three a few years ago, so whether one or two of them stays on a year longer than any of us might expect it shouldn't make much of a difference to how our list is managed.