Robert 'Crash' Craddock

And so then there's, you just have to be careful that those further down the list, and five players allegedly have refused to sign, accept their deals.

No one has signed yet.

They all have their offers.

And there's further aggravation down the list with news that Marnus Labuschagne has been offered a three-year deal.

I mean, some players are saying, hang on, he didn't have a great year at all.

How does he get that?

And then there's aggravation on the big bash front where a group of senior players, and this has been brewing for three years, is saying...

How can guys like Luke Wood and Mohammad Rizwan get paid $420,000 a year to be imports and we get $100,000 less?

So they're frustrated.

But, Gerard, here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

This is a very complex issue to solve because the warring parties –

believe the same argument.

Like the players are saying, you should privatise the Big Bash and get more money and you'd solve this.

And Cricket Australia says, I know, that's what we're trying to do, but we can't do it because New South Wales and Queensland don't agree.

So it's a very, very difficult one to solve because the two warring parties...

are on the same side of the argument.

Oh, yes.

And look, don't write it off at all.

I mean, already, you know, Marcus Stoinis and Tim David have shown that they they've rejected Australian contracts at points, you know, because they