How many depth players are there in the NRL that are on minimal contracts and don’t play a single minute of NRL? Are they all the worst buy of the season?
If you want to talk of investment, you talk of not only its return, but it’s accumulated or depreciated value.
If they’re equipment, Savellio was a cheap investment that was never able to be utilised, but neither were a handful of others bought as redundancies. No real value lost.
Bird was bought as a premium device that was planned to make a significant improvement in our output. Instead he graunched along, contributed some poor quality results, and eventually broke down. Sure, with some professional service and quality parts he should be good to go next year, but on this year alone he’s been a flop and if we tried to sell him now, even fixed, you could argue you wouldn’t get back what you paid for him.
Foran, well shit. He was acquired to be one of two critical operating components. He was just as expensive, if not more so, than Bird. He had a slightly longer uptime, but contributed even less than Bird. Worst of all, he was purchased by a dodgy rogue manager, who has since been (rightly) fired, was massively overpriced even when the purchase agreement went through due to a terminal decline in the preceding seasons, and is now worth little more than a generic Savellio. Their operation is now failing terribly, and due to purchases such as Foran, they've had to liquidate other equipment, at heavily discounted rates, in order to stay afloat.
