is back living in South Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\nMcRae emotional over Hill exit talks | 00:34<\/p>\n
\u201cClubs are not charities, as (Geelong coach) Chris Scott said a couple of weeks ago in his press conference,\u201d Jon Ralph said on Fox Footy\u2019s Midweek Tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey probably have grounds to terminate this deal; they probably would say to themselves, the more we give him, the less we give to players in a premiership race. It\u2019s gonna be a real challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s expected both players will reach financial settlements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain facilities with the AFLPA but their view would be, the reason we have guaranteed contracts is because it\u2019s the only protection mechanism for these players. They don\u2019t get amazing payouts post-career, and so they\u2019ve fought so hard for it,\u201d Ralph said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people out there would say both Bobby and Tyson haven\u2019t played a lot of football recently, let\u2019s just sack them. So there are protections for the right reason there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the case of Bobby, he signed that four-year extension in April 2025, he played seven more games in that season. He still had 18 months to run on that contract. His contract was about $4 million and he\u2019s played seven games in regard to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll (Collingwood) drive a hard bargain, but they\u2019ll also realise the humanity of this is both Tyson and Bobby are gonna have a long time to live. They\u2019re gonna need some money, they\u2019re gonna be in desperate straits, and so I think those clubs are really well-placed to balance a bit of that but realise we\u2019re also not going to give them the full contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like Steven May, who was keen to play on, these guys have shown that unfortunately for whatever issue that we won\u2019t delve into, they aren\u2019t equipped to be professional enough to play AFL football.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Not tolerated” Razor dissects ump abuse | 02:35<\/p>\n
Hill, 26, won the Norm Smith Medal in Collingwood\u2019s 2023 Grand Final triumph having missed most of the prior season due to testicular cancer.<\/p>\n
Stengle, 27, was picked up by Geelong entering the 2022 season after a troubled two-club start to his career, and immediately became a premiership player and All-Australian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two contracts worth a combined $5 million are set to be torn up, with Collingwood\u2019s Bobby Hill and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-814394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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