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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3293249, member: 9853"] It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Here's how I'm seeing it: 1. The club has been making overtures about the type of players they want to build the club around. This proposal signals they want to build the club around Payne. He's the type of player they want. 2. Payne is the type of player who puts in the last minute as he put in the previous 79. He doesn't have an off switch. He never has a bad game. And very frequently he's been the only player who's stood up. 3. In lieu of making him captain, they're giving him this very public acknowledgment and expressing it in a tangible way, that's not just hollow platitudes. 4. So it looks like the club - at the level he interacts with (Walters, Ikin, Donuts) - wants him more than any other player in its history. This is an enormous compliment. 5. But the board has the capacity to reject the offer or quietly insert some kind of performance mechanism that's less risky. 6. Donuts and Ikin will have already run this by Karl Morris and News Ltd in the background. They know how the board will vote. 7. There is another play yet, and it may be the initial offer was a bait and switch. We are absolutely being played here, and it's all to give Payne a pat on the back. I will not be at all surprised if the board sends the deal back and asks for a shorter term, or there's less risk inherent than there initially appears. [/QUOTE]

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