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And he went into Greg Eastwood and said, mate, listen, I'm just going to let you know, mate, you won't be playing first grade next year.

You're

You'll be in State Cup the entire season, so you might want to look at getting out of this third deal.

Now, that was his $800,000 a year.

And so he'd sacrificed money in his first, certainly his first year and a little bit in his second, to get the third year.

And Eastwood said, no, no, I'm staying.

And they said, but you don't understand, mate.

You'll be playing State Cup.

You will not play first grade.

Now, that was Dez's way of just pushing him out of the club.

And Eastwood said, mate, I'll cop that.

And he was the highest paid player in the state cup by a long way.

But it happens.

A lot of clubs, they do back themselves to move players on.

And that's why players are getting out of contracts so often these days because that's part of the game.

That's part of what they've really accepted when they signed the deal, that they probably wouldn't get to that third year.

But that's...

If a club can get you, say, $800,000 in your final year, but they move you on and they'll pick up $250,000 of that, and then wherever you've gone, they've only got to pay you $550,000 out of it, then they think they've got a deal because they're getting you for that first season for $550,000 when you're an 800-year player.

All that sort of horse trading goes on in the game.

That's probably one of the more fascinating things.