4D chess? The alternative is we're tanking the trade?! Which will be uncovered via independent medical anyway.. Or they incorrectly diagnosed it as shoulder to start off with, not having scanned his back.
I am reasonably convinced this is a put TB on ice for the Swans scenario though. Will eat my pie if I'm wrong but something smells fishy, and it's not my pie.
Unless it's a tuna Mornay pie, in which case it probably is your pie.
Serious though - Tommy B would have to be a ****ing idiot to stick around. He's a gun and he doesn't deserve to be copping hidings week in, week out.
We're not going to be a serious threat anytime soon. Certainly not during the residual of his career.