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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3163673, member: 9326"] I’m not certain, but I suspect you’ve got that wrong. I believe we topped their offer only for him to go back to Melbourne and have them come in with an 11th hour offer to beat ours. I guess it could have gone on and escalated forever, but honestly, Bellamy needed to know in no uncertain terms that whatever Melbourne tabled, we’d comfortably beat it. He’s worth it and we shouldn’t have blinked even if it was twice what Melbourne ended up paying. He might have taken less to stay in Melbourne all along, but it should have cost him something more like ‘1 x 5 bedroom house in Paddington PER ANNUM’ less if he wanted to stay loyal to the Storm. He’s human after all, and that’s the sort of money just about anyone would have to take notice of. Melbourne may well have the highest paid Coach in the game by some margin, but he’s also the best in the business and they’re also coming Top 2, so I think they could sleep very well at night knowing that was money extremely well spent. It certainly hasn’t financially ruined them, so given how much more we turn over by comparison, it’s likely we’d have barely even noticed it on the balance sheet by comparison. Tell me, what was the last thing the Broncos splurged on that we could say was money that was equally well spent? [/QUOTE]

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