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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3164318, member: 9326"] I've never once said we could afford anything. Again, you've mis-represented what I said and gone with hyperbole instead. What I said, nothing more and nothing less, is that as the richest club in the game by absolute miles, at a time (2018) when we were year on year growing and generating record revenue figures and turnover, we could quite comfortably have afforded to pay much more than Melbourne did to get the very best Coach in the game, which until the most recent decade or so, was something the Broncos ALWAYS did. Happened to coincide with the era where we nearly always won too. Funny thing that. Yes, the pandemic hurt us, like it hurt all clubs. Luckily, with shed loads of financial clout up our sleeve, we'll absorb it far better than basically all our rivals, which really only reinforces my point. I'm not sure what 24 people represents in our overall staff numbers, but I bet it's a far better outcome than the other clubs in the game endured operationally. I still honestly see absolutely no reason why an event in 2020 should have had any bearing on what was a prudent and sound investment in the club's future back in 2018. To make it clear how absurd you bringing it into the conversation is: Had the pandemic had never happened and we almost certainly went through 2020 as another year where the club operated with solid profits, would you still consider skimping on Craig Bellamy to have been a good decision? I'm not suggesting we're Man City rich, flying our guys around in private jets because we obviously aren't, but nor do we need to be, because as the biggest fish by a long way in a very, very small pond, we only need to be richer than the Bulldogs or the Dragons or the Storm etc. [/QUOTE]

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