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Oliver, Salem now Petracca

Absolutely fantastic news, the faith these guys are showing in the club, the coaches and each other warms my heart

Let's get some success and bring the cup home where it belongs

 

Gawn, McDonald, Viney, Salem, and Trac all lifers  ? so happy 

 
1 hour ago, deeTRACted said:

I like this quote from the article @dazzledavey36 posted 'Petracca was committed to staying on a long-term arrangement and did not want to eek out every last dollar from Melbourne to the detriment of his teammates.'

That is what it’s all about. Making room for your Teammates…


PJ and Roosy deserve some respect out of all this. 
The Club was almost dead when PJ walked in

Holy [censored] [censored]!

what a [censored] legend!!

im [censored] lost for words!!

On 4/30/2021 at 6:22 PM, drysdale demon said:

My thoughts exactly. That is why I take no notice of such posts as I regard them as BS

You owe someone an apology old boy…

 
6 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

You owe someone an apology old boy…

For an opinion?

Everyone stop posting! ?

2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Tom Browne's report pretty much was based around other clubs saying they've asked about Petracca and his manager has said 'he's not interested'.

Personally I reckon there's probably a lot more to do to complete a deal. Petracca will want to stay and the club will have a rough ball park of the money he's worth but after that there's so many factors on how to get the deal done.

The Dogs right now are negotiating with Bont who is 1.0001 to stay and to get a huge deal, but they are working through all sorts of factors with the structure.

There's a long way between Petracca indicating he's happy to stay and the club indicating a ball park figure and everything getting signed and sealed.

Tom Browne irritates me with his hyped up substance free reporting.

I watched the story a few times. Browne hasn't added a shred of real information to what already existed on this forum days ago, which is excellent btw @goodwindees thanks heaps.

The $$ figure and terms are in the written story saying "as much as" and "as long as" so just guessing what is a ball park number. The other info is easily stirred up or created, like other clubs interested and asking questions.

Tom Morris reckons he's confirmed details  -  and added substantial info  -  suggesting he has a reliable source. Or perhaps he knows @goodwindees

 


Just now, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

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Tom Morris reckons he's confirmed details  -  and added substantial info  -  suggesting he has a reliable source. Or perhaps he knows @goodwindees

 

Or perhaps he is him ??

A question... Haas the contract been signed as yet or ha there been any official word that it is 100% certain?

47 minutes ago, Chook said:

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2021-christian-petracca-contract-melbourne-free-agent-new-deal-net-worth-how-much-money/news-story/916d148703bf5e714f4db9911e2666aa

"Petracca was committed to staying on a long-term arrangement and did not want to eek out every last dollar from Melbourne to the detriment of his teammates."

methinks young tom means 'eke' but...who cares about grammar and spelling at a time like this

happy days

Edited by whatwhat say what

1 minute ago, CHF said:

A question... Haas the contract been signed as yet or ha there been any official word that it is 100% certain?

It's official until it's proved not to be official ... mfc is strategically leaking to channel 7 with its larger audience, not the first time


35 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

PJ and Roosy deserve some respect out of all this. 
The Club was almost dead when PJ walked in

This is Goodwin more than anything now..

I'm a bit over Roosy still getting kudos. He left 5 years ago. Yet nothing on Goodwin whos created the environment for these players to want to stay and sign long term. This got nothing to do with Paul Roos or Peter Jackson.

People need to move on from Paul Roos and Give Goodwin the credit he deserves. 

His time with us was a bit overrated imo.

Edited by dazzledavey36

On 4/29/2021 at 9:45 PM, goodwindees said:

This afternoon the Club tabled an offer to CP that if accepted would essentially make him a Demon for life. 

Stay alert as the offer is so attractive, we might get a prompt acceptance. 
 

Well played sir.
Never thought he would sign for so long. 

I'm definitely not having a crack at Paddy, but here's a photo of seemingly two young blokes with the world at their feet. And yet by the hand of fate one is about to hopefully hit paydirt tomorrow, and the other has just put another hurdle in front of his luckless life.

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17 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

methinks young tom means 'eke' but...who cares about grammar and spelling at a time like this

happy days

Pretty sure he didn't mean "scream out each dollar in fear".

13 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

This is Goodwin more than anything now..

I'm a bit over Roosy still getting kudos. He left 5 years ago. Yet nothing on Goodwin whos created the environment for these players to want to stay and sign long term. This got nothing to do with Paul Roos or Peter Jackson.

People need to move on from Paul Roos and Give Goodwin the credit he deserves. 

His time with us was a bit overrated imo.

Without Roos, we wouldn’t be here. He put the Foundations back in the ground, with PJ. 

His time with us wasn’t overrated at all

(people have short memories sometimes)

28 minutes ago, McQueen said:

For an opinion?

Everyone stop posting! ?

No. For calling a Solid Source BS actually 

 

 
12 minutes ago, Demondan75 said:

I'm definitely not having a crack at Paddy, but here's a photo of seemingly two young blokes with the world at their feet. And yet by the hand of fate one is about to hopefully hit paydirt tomorrow, and the other has just put another hurdle in front of his luckless life.

images (9).jpeg

As a total aside - this is one of the worst lit photos in the history of photography. They look like 2 cardboard cut outs shot on 2 different days and superimposed onto the Docklands at the incorrect scale. It’s so bad it can only be real, as anybody trying to fake it would think ‘nah, that looks [censored]’.

4 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Without Roos, we wouldn’t be here. He put the Foundations back in the ground, with PJ. 

His time with us wasn’t overrated at all

(people have short memories sometimes)

Goodwins gone through much more adversity then Roos did with us. Goodwins had his own challanges and rebuilt the list back up again. Without Goodwin, Oliver, Salem and Petracca are looking at new clubs.

Roos got what he came for and that was the $$. This whole notion of the club wouldn't be here without him is actually laughable.


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