On 22/10/2017 at 11:54 AM, Rolling Stone said:

 

Peter Ryan of The Age:

Jack Watts needed to leave his Demons behind .

I would suggest that the Demons also needed to leave Jack Watts behind. The FD wanted it and we got the best deal we could get.

Port Adelaide was his only realistic destination. The word is that the Cats gave Jack a hard mark on his interview and, after that were not going to take him.

Life goes on ... good luck at Port - Jack. 

 

It it's all over, it's sad, but Jack has had to move on and so has MFC. I wish all the haters would  remember the good times.!  It's over and he was loyal but now he plays for Port.   

 

1 minute ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

It it's all over, it's sad, but Jack has had to move on and so has MFC. I wish all the haters would  remember the good times.!  It's over and he was loyal but now he plays for Port.   

 

Also I would like to say Melbourne have handled this badly.. if you look at the Port website how they farewelled the players they traded, it's like chalk and cheese. Why didn't MFC say goodbye gracefully??  PFC put up a highlight package for or their players and wished good luck. Melbourne did nothing except criticise. Could have been better

4 minutes ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Also I would like to say Melbourne have handled this badly.. if you look at the Port website how they farewelled the players they traded, it's like chalk and cheese. Why didn't MFC say goodbye gracefully??  PFC put up a highlight package for or their players and wished good luck. Melbourne did nothing except criticise. Could have been better

From the MFC website:

http://m.melbournefc.com.au/news/2017-10-17/watts-traded-to-port-adelaide

From Mahoney: 

“I would first like to thank Jack for his contribution to the Melbourne Football Club,” he told melbournefc.com.au.

He will always be welcomed back to the club as a Melbourne person and we wish him the very best for the future.”

 

Do you think that's enough??

11 minutes ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Do you think that's enough??

Personally I do. Bartlett also thanked him publicly as well. He’s moving clubs, no need to go over the top. I think people are just looking for things to continue to criticise the club over. 

Edited October 24, 20177 yr by Ethan Tremblay

7 hours ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Do you think that's enough??

Yes. We are not talking about children here. 

JW is always welcome at the MFC

QED

12 hours ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Also I would like to say Melbourne have handled this badly.. if you look at the Port website how they farewelled the players they traded, it's like chalk and cheese. Why didn't MFC say goodbye gracefully??  PFC put up a highlight package for or their players and wished good luck. Melbourne did nothing except criticise. Could have been better

You are really being pathetic and biased now. He has been treated very well for an average player.

1 minute ago, jnrmac said:

You are really being pathetic and biased now. He has been treated very well for an average player.

You actually unwittingly, perhaps, lay the ground here for what I would think to many is possibly the crux of the matter.

"an average player"  this sort of thing goes with "#1 draft pick"  etc etc.    Is it too much for anyone to treat ALL  the players irregardless of success/failure/ whatever to be accorded some dignity ?

It's irrelevant in some manner who  he was other that he had the 'temerity' when we were shizen to be like a number of folk who stuck phat !!

In the end they are a jumper number. They are a player number for the club. They have their own lives to lead and Jack's is now rebooting at another locale. Such is life.  But it doesn't matter , nor should it what sort of player any of us consider him . He's been a standup fellow when often around him things were falling down  and quite possibly THAT and not his actual playing career at Melbourne should be recognised. 

Good luck Jack

Go Dees

1 hour ago, beelzebub said:

You actually unwittingly, perhaps, lay the ground here for what I would think to many is possibly the crux of the matter.

"an average player"  this sort of thing goes with "#1 draft pick"  etc etc.    Is it too much for anyone to treat ALL  the players irregardless of success/failure/ whatever to be accorded some dignity ?

It's irrelevant in some manner who  he was other that he had the 'temerity' when we were shizen to be like a number of folk who stuck phat !!

In the end they are a jumper number. They are a player number for the club. They have their own lives to lead and Jack's is now rebooting at another locale. Such is life.  But it doesn't matter , nor should it what sort of player any of us consider him . He's been a standup fellow when often around him things were falling down  and quite possibly THAT and not his actual playing career at Melbourne should be recognised. 

Good luck Jack

Go Dees

I like Jack Watts. His best football is elite. We just never saw enough of it. He has been treated respectfully by the MFC. He was told in no uncertain terms that he would be best looking outside the club and he did. Once the club decided he wasn't in their plans they did the right thing. He has received possibly more counselling and support than any other player at the MFC -- I am guessing here - because of his talent and draft status. I do know that the club has been extremely blunt with Jack over a number of years about what he has to do. That they ran out of patience with him is in my view a reflection on Jack. Even he has admitted that footy is not his life. That's fine. But its also fine that the MFC says 'enough'.

I didn't mean to disrespect in my post Jack but the reality is that in time - despite being a ripping bloke - he will go down as another in a long line of unfulfilled talent.

I barrack for the club. Players come and go.

Go Dees. 

14 hours ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Do you think that's enough??

What else are they supposed to do? Give him a reach around while he's walking out?

1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

I like Jack Watts. His best football is elite. We just never saw enough of it. He has been treated respectfully by the MFC. He was told in no uncertain terms that he would be best looking outside the club and he did. Once the club decided he wasn't in their plans they did the right thing. He has received possibly more counselling and support than any other player at the MFC -- I am guessing here - because of his talent and draft status. I do know that the club has been extremely blunt with Jack over a number of years about what he has to do. That they ran out of patience with him is in my view a reflection on Jack. Even he has admitted that footy is not his life. That's fine. But its also fine that the MFC says 'enough'.

I didn't mean to disrespect in my post Jack but the reality is that in time - despite being a ripping bloke - he will go down as another in a long line of unfulfilled talent.

I barrack for the club. Players come and go.

Go Dees. 

I agree with that summation.  I tend to think of Jack as being somewhat similar to Sylvia... definitely not in what he got up to outside the club, but in terms of him giving the impression that he liked the "status" and "fame" associated with being an AFL star, more than the work involved in taking it to the next level.  They both demonstrated moments of brilliance, but more often than not, demonstrated moments of mediocrity.

1 hour ago, hardtack said:

I agree with that summation.  I tend to think of Jack as being somewhat similar to Sylvia... definitely not in what he got up to outside the club, but in terms of him giving the impression that he liked the "status" and "fame" associated with being an AFL star, more than the work involved in taking it to the next level.  They both demonstrated moments of brilliance, but more often than not, demonstrated moments of mediocrity.

Interesting observation.

A Father of another high profile player made the comment to a friend of mine, "Jack likes the limelight too much".

Anyone, seen Petraccas Instagram post from today still worried that the players will view Goody negatively based on the Watts decision 

18 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

From the MFC website:

http://m.melbournefc.com.au/news/2017-10-17/watts-traded-to-port-adelaide

From Mahoney: 

“I would first like to thank Jack for his contribution to the Melbourne Football Club,” he told melbournefc.com.au.

He will always be welcomed back to the club as a Melbourne person and we wish him the very best for the future.”

 

Also PJ thanked him on radio & said  is always welcomed back

49 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

Anyone, seen Petraccas Instagram post from today still worried that the players will view Goody negatively based on the Watts decision 

Lol

 

4 hours ago, hardtack said:

I agree with that summation.  I tend to think of Jack as being somewhat similar to Sylvia... definitely not in what he got up to outside the club, but in terms of him giving the impression that he liked the "status" and "fame" associated with being an AFL star, more than the work involved in taking it to the next level.  They both demonstrated moments of brilliance, but more often than not, demonstrated moments of mediocrity.

[censored]!! shocking comparison! 

2 hours ago, McQueen said:

Lol

 

Oi Goody we are all ur mates !! ( Yeah coz we don't wanta end up like Wattsy) 

2 hours ago, Hogan2014 said:

Also PJ thanked him on radio & said  is always welcomed back

Political Party line Buulltish !! ( Welcome Back for what?????????) 

9 hours ago, jnrmac said:

You are really being pathetic and biased now. He has been treated very well for an average player.

Actually I'm not, and you are quite rude.  From the start I have held my self back but I won't anymore.  Jack did not come back out of shape, his time trial this year was better than last when he came 5th in the B And F. He gets on great with all the young guys. He is not a bad influence, he trains as well as 80 percent of the boys. He is not Viney. He came back with blue hair which [censored] them off.  He is not ruthless, he treats people with respect.  I don't care what any of you think, Melbourne are back in the Neeld era but with more talent so might survive it. I hope they do for the sake of the beautiful boys they have. There has been a campaign all year to crucify Jack and it has worked but it doesn't pass the pub test.  Finally 18 months of good footy and they trade him, go figure! Do you think Macca is any different to how he was at the Bulldogs? I really wish the Dees well and I'm not a Dees supportor anymore but if you are have a think about how this has happened.

Don't worry about Jack.

He's had his front tooth knocked out with a hammer and got himself a neck tatt.

Pretty soon he'll be speaking Port ,Drinking Port and living Port.

In a storm.

On 10/23/2017 at 5:55 PM, Satyriconhome said:

I hope you don't try, failing to even get close could be detrimental to your  already frail self esteem

Wow. That's cutting. I was concerned that I might have been making you look like an idiot. Now I realise you do it all by yourself anyway.

 

50 minutes ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Actually I'm not, and you are quite rude.  From the start I have held my self back but I won't anymore.  Jack did not come back out of shape, his time trial this year was better than last when he came 5th in the B And F. He gets on great with all the young guys. He is not a bad influence, he trains as well as 80 percent of the boys. He is not Viney. He came back with blue hair which [censored] them off.  He is not ruthless, he treats people with respect.  I don't care what any of you think, Melbourne are back in the Neeld era but with more talent so might survive it. I hope they do for the sake of the beautiful boys they have. There has been a campaign all year to crucify Jack and it has worked but it doesn't pass the pub test.  Finally 18 months of good footy and they trade him, go figure! Do you think Macca is any different to how he was at the Bulldogs? I really wish the Dees well and I'm not a Dees supportor anymore but if you are have a think about how this has happened.

Wow. This stuff is still being written 2 weeks later

On 10/23/2017 at 6:24 PM, bing181 said:

Nothing "supposedly" about the fact that the highest offer we had for Jack was pick 31 from Port. That's how other clubs view him.

Oh bing181. Are you popping your head back up out of the dung? As I've said before, Jack chose Port Adelaide and because of the way it was handled by the FD PA knew that they didn't have to go high to get him. FD basically shot themselves in the foot.

But I don't want to damage the fragile little world that you live in so you just go on believing what you want to. And maybe you'll see Santa Claus this year fly past your window too.

If you would please reply to my post on page 268 (5 posts from the bottom) i would be most grateful. I've been trying to chase you down about unsubstantiated crap you've put on this thread but you keep on running away from it. Man up I say son!!!

1 hour ago, Jack Jack Tappy said:

Actually I'm not, and you are quite rude.  From the start I have held my self back but I won't anymore.  Jack did not come back out of shape, his time trial this year was better than last when he came 5th in the B And F. He gets on great with all the young guys. He is not a bad influence, he trains as well as 80 percent of the boys. He is not Viney. He came back with blue hair which [censored] them off.  He is not ruthless, he treats people with respect.  I don't care what any of you think, Melbourne are back in the Neeld era but with more talent so might survive it. I hope they do for the sake of the beautiful boys they have. There has been a campaign all year to crucify Jack and it has worked but it doesn't pass the pub test.  Finally 18 months of good footy and they trade him, go figure! Do you think Macca is any different to how he was at the Bulldogs? I really wish the Dees well and I'm not a Dees supportor anymore but if you are have a think about how this has happened.

Yep. You're right. They got rid of Jack because he dyed his hair blue.

47 minutes ago, ChewyOnMyBoot said:

Wow. That's cutting. I was concerned that I might have been making you look like an idiot. Now I realise you do it all by yourself anyway.

 

Ouch, keyboard warrior causes flesh wound, if you can't stand the heat precious, stay out of the kitchen

Jack Watts, even to me, had to move on