04-03-2021, 11:48 PMBoomcheck Wrote:

04-03-2021, 11:45 PMPremierBromanov Wrote: you can sign IAs for like 500k

IFA Signings for next season

JMac NCheese
S59: $4,000,000

Separa Borro
S59: $2,500,000

Noah Tedla
S59: $3,500,000

Perry Morgan
S59: $4,000,000



but do they

Hey bud, since you seem to have no clue what's going on in our team.

JMac : our draft pick, went IA and told us before
Borro : Told us when we drafted him he only wanted to be a backup
Tedla : our draft pick again, went IA in April of last year without a word, hope he's doing alright
Morgan : well-travelled user, he's in our LR and one of the funniest guys you'll ever meet

As Gibbles already said, we have the people in the pipeline to replace all four of those users. There's actually a good chance JMac won't even see the opening day line-up, but we signed him for an insurance policy. Because at the end of the day, we still need to field a roster. And guess what? We were 2 points away from the playoffs with all of those players on the team, minus Morgan. You can shit on us all you want, but since you can't see the forest for the trees it seems, I won't indulge you in recounting what going through a rebuild in the SHL looks and feels like.

As for the issue at hand, there's more to it than cap space. I'm not going to spend drafting capital on someone that straight out tells us the rebrand we've worked hard on is shite, that there's a non-negligible chance they'll flake on us, and that we have to convince them to draft them. Sadly, this behaviour, and the fact that they were seen unilaterally as a package deal, seems to have dragged Valor into a vortex not of their making. Retaining rights for a season and having them sign to a J deal is good and all, but this is the kind of conversation that should be had when both parties are interested in reaching a deal - and we certainly didn't feel that way.

Life is a highway - traffic flows in both directions.