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We were able to bring in Gibbs on a large contract straight after losing those players.

The players I'm thinking of are Thompson, Mackay and Douglas and then we recontracted Jenkins and Lynch during that period on fat stacks (both who played about 1-2 good years on their new deal).

We had guys like Otten, Cheney, Hampton, Atkins and Menzel on the list also fattening it up for little benefit.

The juniors in our team wanted to be paid. They couldn't because we were too busy loading up our cap on duds and overpaid contracts which is absolutely a cultural issue with how we managed the team. If you wanted to be paid you had to wait and earn it.

I'm not saying they hated the place (although it seems McGovern did). I'm saying our culture set at the top was not to give 3rd year players $800k contracts, so they left.

McGovern got bitter because he felt he got duped signing for $550k and then we bought in Gibbs. Carlton did a Bulldogs and hit back at Gibbs poaching by offering him a monster contract - which ended up completely screwing them over!


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