Round 20 - Adelaide v CCM @ Coopers

[Ancient Mariner]

Completely agree with your post, Ancient.
Can you fill me in on this bit though...? Appears to be a blank spot in my knowledge

It goes back to the days when Lawrie and Fergie were trying to put a team together for the Central Coast along with others in order to make a bid for a spot in the new A-League. Players from the Spirit squad were approached and committed to a future contract on a handshake should the bid get up.
The Spirit players who committed were; Hutch, Kwas, Milligan, Osman, Sully, Petrie, Spenny and Wilko.
When the bid got up all players signed except Milligan who had, in the meantime, renegged on the deal and without telling anyone gone off and signed with Sydney.
Apparently Fergie was furious and gunning for him and Milligan was rightly scared.

 

[Gratis]

Interesting. I asked Milligan's brother about it and he was offered way more money apparently.
In fairness I can't say I blame him, all the club's were new and one down the road offers you substantially more coin. No one really knew if this experiment would even pay off so I'd have probably taken the money too. It's business as much as loyalty to mates at this level

 

[Gratis]

It goes back to the days when Lawrie and Fergie were trying to put a team together for the Central Coast along with others in order to make a bid for a spot in the new A-League. Players from the Spirit squad were approached and committed to a future contract on a handshake should the bid get up.
The Spirit players who committed were; Hutch, Kwas, Milligan, Osman, Sully, Petrie, Spenny and Wilko.
When the bid got up all players signed except Milligan who had, in the meantime, renegged on the deal and without telling anyone gone off and signed with Sydney.
Apparently Fergie was furious and gunning for him and Milligan was rightly scared.

Cheers for the heads up. I do understand why Fergie and probably many of the guys would be dirty about it