April fool?

If I remember rightly the Peacock stuff started as early as March 2005 when he met Tony Smith & Gary Hetherington. He left that year in October after captaining us to a Grand Final victory over his future employers.

I imagine that the board have identified who are the highest priority re-signings and will be approaching them with deals over the coming weeks. I would have thought that most of these deals will have been discussed and possibly even agreed.

It's pretty obvious to me, sign him up!

Going by what has been discussed at previous fans forums in regards to play signings, it seems to me that it goes this way;

The club will know who they want to keep and who to let go usually by the half way point of the year.
Player agents know who's out of contract that year and DO contact all clubs as it's their job to ensure they get the best deal for their client.
Clubs make no "official" approaches to players, however, they may say "That player is OOC? Hmm, he fit in well here" or something along those lines, which means that when that player gets offered a deal by his current club he knows that he could get a deal at another club.

As for players who are told they're not being offered a new deal? Well, I was told that Terry Newton's drop in form round the middle of his last year with us was down to him being told he was not going to be offered a new deal with the club.

Back on topic signing Heath is a must.

I agree. Top priority.

I'm sure you're right about the blind eye. It's pretty difficult to police anyway, as it's mostly done through agents these days and not the player and club directly. I'd guess we didn't complain, though that is less understandable as it was in the very direct aftermath of the Harris case, in more ways than one.