I don’t have an issue with whether it’s one year or two.
I have an issue with that press release.
Very poor form. I’m not sure whether it’s racist, childish, or just unprofessional, but whoever authorised it needs a friggin’ slap.
Some serious over reactions here.
It’s clearly a carrot. Do the rehab properly and get a contract.
If the club didn’t rate him, they didn’t have to offer him a contract for 2021.
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Yeah makes sense, but conversely, we want players to remain loyal to the club and not have 3-4 walk out the door every year that we’d otherwise liked to have stay.
Showing a little faith in this situation would be a good start.
I’m not asking for 5 year deals here
2 years
1 to rehab
1 to prove he’s up to regular AFL footy
It’s not reinventing the wheel.
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That’s not a carrot, that’s a stick “don’t rehab properly and you’re gone”, a carrot is “do the rehab properly and we’ll give you an extra 100k next year”.
How about something resembling a shared responsibility?
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Could be both ways. I’d have a nice contract ready for him for 2 years. Hell, Mozzie could even sign it now and EFC sign it in 12 months time if he rehabs properly.
Half of Wallas problem is when he passes it off the other players misss.
Think he was number 1 in the comp for behind assists in 2019 lol.
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Could be a 12 month contract with triggers for 1 , 2 or even 3 more at X dollars.
They never mention triggers …
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Moz is taller and heavier then Tippa…?
This as well.
Someone I know’s team at their work has been getting all the messages from the senior leadership of their organisation about how the business cared about them during the pandemic. “We’re all in support of flexible working”, and a few other things. In a week and a half the management did 2 things that made a lie out of all the platitudes, and now the entire team hates the organisation, doesn’t trust them and wants to leave. They weren’t big things, they were just things that made the team feel unsupported and untrusted.
This is relevant to any organisation, including football clubs, where you want people to buy in to a vision and put their body on the line every week in search of a company/club goal.
Again I don’t know the situation here, but if Mozzie is feeling aggrieved about not being supported when injured, and not being trusted to be professional and do his job, it doesn’t take much for the bonds between players and club to break down. It’s a tightrope, and one that the club have no need to make themselves walk in this case.
So hopefully what’s reported isn’t the full story, and the stuff about “rehab or you’re gone” is just blitz being blitz.
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Interesting that his performance review at the end of this contract will be based on KPIs other than games played, disposals, tackles and goals. Good idea for a player in LT rehab.
That’s true; hopefully it’s that.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter how long this contract is, what matters is that he is signed.
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And that any other club who had interest in him but was put off offering a deal to a guy who would sit out a year injured will be out of contract and a RFA at the end of his rehab we just paid for 
Well played
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RFA? Who? I thought this was the mozzie thread
There’s a positive here. If we are paying for his rehab, we are really really unlikely to delist him.
I was in support of the 1 year but this is a really good point @frosty. That would be bloody tough being in that situation.
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Can pure speculation & assumption actually be “a point” … 
Genuinely curious.
There is absolutely no reason to believe we aren’t looking after him in every way we can, and everyone might expect, and have just hung a nice juicy Carrot in front of him to encourage and inspire him to be ultra professional about his rehab and diet etc
You can’t ‘show the door’ to a young kid who just did an ACL after a few games. That would be criminal, regardless on how much or little potential you see in them.
I agree that the 1 year contract is to keep diligent rehab in mind and I don’t mind it.
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Sorry I meant DFA
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