Because the decision of the starringwood star Magpies Brayden Maynard counts; North Melbourne Kangaroos; Bombers being; Western bulldogs; Crows by Adelaide

We can exclude Melbourne from the dispute for Maynard, given The irritated story of the Angus Brayshaw accident From the finals of 2023 (despite his father Peter’s service to demons, as a player and official); Those of red and blue shades would have stormed the long room of the MCC (a Range Rover Riot?).

The cakes have a load next to the middle of the back, having just landed the silky Dan Houston by Port AdelaideAnd the half-back/defensive midfielder Harry Perryman (from the giants) on the heavy contracts.

You can see how Maynard would appeal to Alastair Clarkson, in particular, in a competition that has fewer “unstoppable” players compared to the training years of Clarkson in Hawthorn; He would say the defense, he fell on metaphorical grenades for teammates and would have provided Zavorra with a team with few mature leaders, since the Roos renounce a perennial reconstruction and the results of the demand.

Maynard’s brother, Corey, also seems to work north.

Therefore, there is a compelling logic to let “Bruz” leave the club that helped him to transform him from a young man with self -lift behavioral problems (“I was going around with the wrong people”) to a serious and reliable footballer.

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If you measured the production of Maynard, compared to its potential cost, the position of colringwood in the premiership cycle and what they would have earned in return, the logic would have dictated.

But the Maynard value goes beyond the classification numbers that clubs use to evaluate players and which ones The new garment of Collingwood list Justin Leppitsch It was distributed for recruitment and contracts.

In short, what value do you attribute to the immaterial impact of a teammate loved by teammates and whose absence would have been strongly felt in the changing rooms? It is not at Glenn Archer’s station, but it is that type of character.

That cultural value is worth the extra year or from $ 100,000 to $ 150,000 per season that would cost it to keep it? Is it enough to sacrifice a comfortable choice for an old game group in Methuselah?

Maynard’s decision, therefore, has much more riding it than a hard side by the mid -back that goes or goes.

At the base, the call of Maynard implicitly asks how the ruthless-and players-Syan players who have become in their will to maximize returns, without resorting to old-fashioned truth as “playing each other”.

Maynard, I gather, don’t want to leave. It would probably find the hearty movement emotionally, based on what the people who know him say.

Collingwood’s position seems to be pragmatic. They would know that, ideally, some players with draft value should start this year. If not Maynard, then who? Bobby Hill – subject to speculation on a move at home – would also make sting.

“If a club comes to Brayden and do our best, whatever we can do to put it in front of him, our best with (manager) Tommy Petroro And “Bruzzy” to show him our love, financially and inside our TPP, “said Craig Kelly, CEO of Collringwood, nine days ago.

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“But if someone wants him desperately, and he wants to pay him a pile more for a longer period of time, everyone should go,” good luck friend “if this opportunity is there. We would like you to be here, we want you to be here, but it is something that the industry must make it go around … so let me have the opportunity to have the best, but you would do everything within our power to keep it in our club.”

Some rival clubs have played Kelly’s comments as an attempt To condition fans for the perspective that Maynard goes away.

I read Kelly in a different way, viewing the CEO comments as an attempt to explain to the fans – mostly colringwood – how the system has moved and that there will be losses and earnings in a liberal market in which the free agency has changed not only the rules, but the costumes. He was trying to put Maynard’s choice in the context-the game is more cold-blooded on the players’ movement.

Kelly previously Ran Tgi – the management company that manages a large piece of AFL players, including Maynard – and acutely includes how times are changing.

Have they changed to the point that a player who does not want to leave, who personifies the “heart and soul” will get up and will go away, taking bigger money and with the blessing of his beloved first club?

Craig McRae will find much more difficult to lose Maynard by Grundy BrodieAnd it will evoke multiple sensations in the changing rooms – and joy – compared to when Adam Treloar has been pushed.

A key difference, however, is that this will be the call of Maynard.

While Collingwood and Maynard are preparing for the dance of negotiations, it is worth asking this question: if Brayden Maynard can leave his club as a free agent, who could not?

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