{"id":404477,"date":"2024-06-19T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=404477"},"modified":"2024-06-19T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:05:48","slug":"chopper-from-bondi-star-reveals-6m-giants-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=404477","title":{"rendered":"'Chopper from Bondi': Star reveals $6m Giants offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

F\ufefformer Collingwood<\/a> star Dale Thomas<\/a> has revealed he was offered a mega deal from the GWS Giants<\/a> while he was still at the Magpies.<\/p>\n

The 258-gamer won a premiership with Collingwood in 2010, and just a year or two later was supposedly offered a whopping $6 million deal for six years at the Giants.<\/p>\n

The offer came around the Giants' inception into the AFL – their debut season was 2012.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Despite the extremely tempting money, the goal sneak turned his back, and stuck with the Pies for another \ufefffew seasons.<\/p>\n

But passing on the offer wasn't that easy at the time.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/p>\n

"Did we discuss ever that they (GWS Giants) offered me a million dollars a year for six years?" Thomas revealed on Triple M's Marty Sheargold Show.<\/em><\/p>\n

"This would have been 2011, or 2012."<\/p>\n

It took some conversations with former Collingwood teammate Heath Shaw about how life could look up in NSW.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Heath Shaw and I were sitting there, and we were contemplating what to do," he said.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas.\"<\/p>\n

"We were Googling what it would cost for a chopper from Bondi to GWS every day."<\/p>\n

His reason for sticking fat with Collingwood was simple.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"At the time, it was all around that … Collingwood are going to continue to win premierships and be competitive," Thomas said.<\/p>\n

"At that point all I really knew was winning and I'm not a great loser.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/p>\n

"So, it was always going to be a tough journey starting out with the GWS Giants. So, I weighed up all those things, leaving family, and passed on the offer."<\/p>\n

Thomas did eventually depart Collingwood after 157 games at the end of 2013, before joining rivals Carlton the following season.<\/p>\n

He played 101 games between 2014 and 2019 in the navy blue, before hanging up the boots.<\/p>\n

He was also selected in the All-Australian side in 2011.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F\ufefformer Collingwood star Dale Thomas has revealed he was offered a mega deal from the GWS Giants while he was still at the Magpies. The […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404487,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404477\/revisions\/404487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}