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Simply put, I view it as the club's responsibility to preserve the value of their players as best they can until they very end. I don't think MFC did that in this instance.

Well you'd be wrong. It's the players responsibility. The club has no responsibility to maintain the public perception of the player's performance or ability. The fact is if we rated Moloney we would have tried to keep him and given him games. By dropping him and letting him go implies that he has been underperforming.

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Well you'd be wrong. It's the players responsibility. The club has no responsibility to maintain the public perception of the player's performance or ability. The fact is if we rated Moloney we would have tried to keep him and given him games. By dropping him and letting him go implies that he has been underperforming.

Responsibility to themselves not a responsibility to the player, i.e so they get the best return for him in a trade or as comp. pick.

I don't think they have a responsibility to the player so that he gets a fatter contract at his next team (although - to be fair - Moloney's new contract has a direct effect on the comp. pick Melbourne will get).

Anyway, he's off to Bris now, so we'll see.

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No, the club didn't infer anything.

Imply, maybe. You're the one who inferred.

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It was the message coming out of the club officially and unofficially all year, as reflected by comments on here.

Nice video, love the mature style of argument and comprehension skills that are on display here so far!

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Damien Barrett reports that we are moving closer on the Cam Pederson deal with North

I am warming more to getting Pedersen and keeping pick 20.

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I am warming more to getting Pedersen and keeping pick 20.

With these rumors of pick 4 for Daniel Rich I am starting to think we will not be involved in this draft at all.

Lets hope MFC haven't screwed up again and traded themselves out of a superdraft which could set them up for 10 years.

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Tim Harrington conveyed an understanding that each club to lose players to free agency would most probably receive a single pick based on net loss. Hypothetically, Port Adelaide could currently be sitting on a first round pick which would explain their reluctance to participate in other FA deals.

Not sure why we didn't do a similar deal with the cats for Byrnes if Rivers ends up there as the dons and power did to maximise out FA compo.

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Talks of pick 4 to Brisbane for Daniel Rich

WTF?

His best year was his first when he won the Rising Star. Ever since then he has been serviceable and reliable but no way is he a pick 4 trade.

Pick 20 more like it.

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cfe, it would have hurt the Club more to keep saying Moloney was on the right track and that he was required, when obviously internally he was not rated by the coaching staff at all, and was seen to have chucked a hissy fit having been relieved of a position in the leadership group.

It was better for the club as a whole to make an example of Beamer, and show that the club was incredibly serious about the need for all players to be on board with the direction the club was heading. Yes, it's not a good look for a club's reigning B&F to be searching for a trade mid-year, however it was obvious to all that he was butting heads with the now incumbent football department. To allow this to continue would only have undermined the message that the FD are trying to sell, and if this lessens the pick value we get for Brent, then so be it. The intangible value that this move shows further strengthens the vision of the Club, showing that regardless of standing, if you refuse to meet minimum standards or follow the instructions of the coaching panel, you WILL NOT get a game with Melbourne.

As far as I'm concerned, this only paints the MFC in a better light, as they are trying to instil a professional environment, where it was arguable that one didn't exist before, and one disgruntled player is not above what the club is trying to achieve.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Beamer.

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cfe, it would have hurt the Club more to keep saying Moloney was on the right track and that he was required, when obviously internally he was not rated by the coaching staff at all, and was seen to have chucked a hissy fit having been relieved of a position in the leadership group.

It was better for the club as a whole to make an example of Beamer, and show that the club was incredibly serious about the need for all players to be on board with the direction the club was heading. Yes, it's not a good look for a club's reigning B&F to be searching for a trade mid-year, however it was obvious to all that he was butting heads with the now incumbent football department. To allow this to continue would only have undermined the message that the FD are trying to sell, and if this lessens the pick value we get for Brent, then so be it. The intangible value that this move shows further strengthens the vision of the Club, showing that regardless of standing, if you refuse to meet minimum standards or follow the instructions of the coaching panel, you WILL NOT get a game with Melbourne.

As far as I'm concerned, this only paints the MFC in a better light, as they are trying to instil a professional environment, where it was arguable that one didn't exist before, and one disgruntled player is not above what the club is trying to achieve.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Beamer.

Fair enough, well put. I don't really want to argue about that anymore! Everyone is pulling in the same direction here, just using different ropes.

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