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Tom McDonald Re-Signs Until 2024

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Imagine the new three year deal may stretch some of his 2022 salary out a little?

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    its interesting considering he was on the trade table with his best, apparently, behind him.

    hopefully took less coin to retain younger players, with the opportunity of future glory the main prize.

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    Was he actually out of contract this year?

    Signing on means this will take him to 200 game club. Well done Tommy. Anyone know last play that did that?

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    Reckon he's taken a slight pay cut?

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    Reckon he's re-negotiated his wage, and it's all to help us bring in Cerra and maybe others

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    Long term security for Tom and they have most likely reworked his average salary to give us TTP room. Pretty happy with this.

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    Will he get through the life of the contract? 🤔

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    2 minutes ago, Dwight Schrute said:

    Reckon he's re-negotiated his wage, and it's all to help us bring in Cerra and maybe others

    The new deal for Tom McDonald comes a year after he was shopped around for a trade.

    Most likely the remuneration has been reworked to give the club additional room to move with regard to future trading, possibly with Adam Cerra in mind.

    Recently, the club announced a contract extension for Joel Smith and it brought out the best in Smith for a few games.

    Good sign for TMac

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    Great news for Tommy. Really pleased for him and the club.

    Spells the end for Weid though, doesn’t it?

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    Getting a 2 year extension rather than 1, suggests to me they gave him the extra year on the condition it would be on very modest coin which allowed the club even greater flexibility to smooth it over 3 years ... club can't do a thing wrong at the moment ...

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    12 minutes ago, ben russell said:

    Great news for Tommy. Really pleased for him and the club.

    Spells the end for Weid though, doesn’t it?

    I’d say so. It also wouldn’t be right to keep him in the vfl team as depth as there AFL teams crying out for a #2 tall. 

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    34 minutes ago, adonski said:

    Smoothing out the coin! Cerra must be on the way :mahoney2:

    I dont think money is the issue with Cerra, its our trade currency.  Not sure how we get it done

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    1 minute ago, KysaiahMessiah said:

    I dont think money is the issue with Cerra, its our trade currency.  Not sure how we get it done

    I've heard we're trading out Brayshaw, Gawn and a future 1st as per the Age?

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    23 minutes ago, Half forward flank said:

    Melbournes unsung Mark Maclure.

    He owned the Tower at the same time didn't he 

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    Outside of the obvious salary smoothing this is a great thing to do for the clubs culture…I can’t help but be in awe of the culture this club is continuing to build - this is a great resigning that only enhances the demons culture 

    They say culture starts at the top….we all know it started awhile ago but i reckon Kate is doing some incredible things….

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    12 minutes ago, adonski said:

    I've heard we're trading out Brayshaw, Gawn and a future 1st as per the Age?

    Yes, they all have family in Perth. The future 1st has future cousins apparently in Fremantle.

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    My man!

    What a journey Tommy has been on.

    CHB in a struggling team
    Swing man in a rising team
    Main forward target in a Prelim team
    Massive contract
    Drops of the face of the earth in a struggling team
    Injury
    Return to form in a dominant team, first as the main man, then as a 2nd banana to Sideshow Bob in a meat and 2 veg arrangement
    Now another contract
    Premiership?

    Here's to a couple more years of the meat and 2 veg show.

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    Good stuff. Even if he is cooked by that last year, it smooths the salary out and sets us up to have a real crack for the next few years.

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    1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Was he actually out of contract this year?

    Signing on means this will take him to 200 game club. Well done Tommy. Anyone know last play that did that?

    Jones is the only player on our list to have played 200 games. His 200th was in late-2015.

    Bernie Vince played his 200th game for us in 2017, but obviously they weren't all with us. 

    I think, prior to Jones, the last MFC player to get to 200 games for the club was Brad Green in 2010.

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