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There's been a common theory that players pick up form in the last couple of months of a contract season and I'm wondering if performance based contracts might be the answer.

There are players you wouldn't want to lose and they'd be given proper contracts but I wonder how players like Krak and Pettifer and Tivva etc would perform if the pressure was kept on them.

We've had so many high paid players underperform year after year after year. In fact we've been at the top of the salary cap and the bottom of results. The players get their massive pay each week whether they get a kick or not and I wonder if some have less passion because of that.

It's a reason I'm not a fan of long contracts for fringe players too.

Can anyone think of the pros and cons of performance based contracts and would we have many players on them already?