NEWS Matt Gillett retirement could hand Broncos a salary cap windfall

[McHunt]

Matt Gillett retirement could hand Broncos
a salary cap windfall​

Travis Meyn and Chris Honnery,
The Courier-Mail
October 31, 2019 6:24pm

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[BrentTatesChin]

Gee I really hope he wasnt forced into retirment...

 

[GCBRONCO]

 

[big k]

Gee I really hope he wasnt forced into retirment...

I doubt it

 

[Footy Fanatic]

Gee I really hope he wasnt forced into retirment...

Didn't sound like it. His shoulder was just done.

 

[Alec]

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Parker is in more than half of these photos lol. Is it just a coincidence? Did he make this?

 

[broncsgoat]

Parker is in more than half of these photos lol. Is it just a coincidence? Did he make this?

Yeah he posted it to his social media accounts

 

[theshed]

Gee I really hope he wasnt forced into retirment...

Listening to him try and remember his pre-written speech emphasising his cooked shoulder through tears, you can’t help but wonder.

There’s a couple guys i wouldn’t mind if the club bullied into retirement but Gillo isn’t one of them. It would be really hard to support a club if it came out they did that to a guy like Matt.

what a champion he’s been for our club.

 

[nathano11]

Listening to him try and remember his pre-written speech emphasising his cooked shoulder through tears, you can’t help but wonder.

The same thing crossed my mind as I watched it

 

[Chewed]

Listening to him try and remember his pre-written speech emphasising his cooked shoulder through tears, you can’t help but wonder.

There’s a couple guys i wouldn’t mind if the club bullied into retirement but Gillo isn’t one of them. It would be really hard to support a club if it came out they did that to a guy like Matt.

what a champion he’s been for our club.

If it's not his shoulder it would be his neck, dude is cooked, he might have handled Q Cup but he's spent in the NRL.

 

[Morepudding]

Listening to him try and remember his pre-written speech emphasising his cooked shoulder through tears, you can’t help but wonder.

There’s a couple guys i wouldn’t mind if the club bullied into retirement but Gillo isn’t one of them. It would be really hard to support a club if it came out they did that to a guy like Matt.

what a champion he’s been for our club.

I think he had to retire. This was just to ensure its salary cap exempt so he gets his money.

 

[broncos4life]

Man the tin foil hats are out in force.

 

[The True King]

Yet another nonsense article about players we could (but inevitably won't) be signing next season.

Croft is a realistic target but by no means anything close to the solution to our problems.

 

[Unbreakable]

Man the tin foil hats are out in force.

Even on the off chance he was pressured to retire, he would've been given some ludicrous incentives, like guaranteed job & salary after work, media opportunities, coaching staff opportunities, etc.

He certainly wouldn't be left out in the cold, we look after our own.

 

[Allo]

Listening to him try and remember his pre-written speech emphasising his cooked shoulder through tears, you can’t help but wonder.

There’s a couple guys i wouldn’t mind if the club bullied into retirement but Gillo isn’t one of them. It would be really hard to support a club if it came out they did that to a guy like Matt.

what a champion he’s been for our club.

The same thing crossed my mind as I watched it

I think it was just a combination of his emotions and stumbling over words trying to keep it together, the fact it was on his phone and not paper (seriously?) and he’s always been a bit of a footy-cliche guy in general when it comes to the media and he probably lent on that a bit heavy to try and stay on point

 

[Nashy]

He was off the regular script of credit to the boys, team effort, score more tries. He's a footy player, add the emotion, getting up at a presser to say you're leaving the sport you have grown up with would suck, and would be difficult.

 

[heartly87]

Thanks to Gillo for the effort he put in over the years. Great player and bloke. Sad day but needed to happen. I thought he was done after Origin as he just didn't have the gas in him after it.