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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2237858, member: 1764"] Hmmmm, agree with m1c to a degree. Their performances had been similar. Michaels played every game of 2007, and was in good form in 2008 before his knee injury. Boyd played every game of 2006 and most of 2007, though had a dip in form. He was also playing well first half of 2008. The big difference here is that Michaels was off contract this year. Boyd was technically still on contract until NEXT year (a one year option in his favour for 2009). Similar situation to Stagg. The Broncos said they would honour his option, but couldn't offer them anything for 2010 and beyond, so take your chance with another club if it comes along. Both did. It's very very easy to say in hindsight upgrading Michaels' contract (3 years if I remember correctly) while letting Boyd negotiate with other clubs was a bad decision. But Michaels DID show a lot of promise in first half of 2008. Sadly he has failed to come back from his knee injury. But it's just like those now saying we're idiots for letting Taylor go, when at the time it happened he was not putting in the effort, and his few performances for the Broncos were abysmal. Suddenly he's in form and we can retrospectively say it's a bad decision. Jarryd Hayne was in SHIT form at the start of the year. I remember he played against us up here and dropped the ball every time he got it. Including over the line when a try was certain. If his contract was up for renewal you'd have had no qualms with Parramatta saying he was free to leave (given his bad form and off field incidents last year as well). Imagine if they did. Now he's the Dally M medal winner and easily the form player in the competition...does it make it a wrong decision? You can't possibly know what the future. Every decision is a gamble. Hell the Broncos could re-sign Darren Lockyer for 2 years and 2 weeks in he suffers a career ending injury (pray that doesn't happen). Does it make it a mistake? No. Just an unfortunate turn of events. [/QUOTE]

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