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23 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Fair enough Billy, but I won't be leaving my club because some players do, no matter who they are and including Clarry, my favourite player.

I also think the club may know more about our players, than we do from the outside.

In the famous words of Norm Smith

”I’m MELBOURNE”

I’m not Clayton Oliver

I’m not Christian Petracca

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He’s 29 or so, done a lot of miles, in average condition.

Happy to let him board the Geelong express, for a good player and next years Cats first.

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I would rather we keep both Clayton Oliver and Christian Petracca.

Hope they can sort things out.

Would love to see them both play over 350+ games for the Demons and win more Premierships for us. A Brownlow Medal or two would be fabulous too!

Anyway, I guess we shall wait and see...

I will most certainly be very angry and upset if we lose either of them!

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5 minutes ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Without knowing, it seems that way... think I read somewhere Tracc was upset how lenient we were on Clarry last of season, there relationship is probably key to Dees fortunes moving forward. Hopefully it can be fixed.

Because trading away a star player in order to appease another is not being lenient or bending over backwards?

The minute players are driving list management decision, is the minute you need to shut up shop.

 

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1 minute ago, bluey said:

He’s 29 or so, done a lot of miles, in average condition.

Happy to let him board the Geelong express, for a good player and next years Cats first.

He’s just turned 27, but sure 

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51 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Clarry has been a lot more High Maintenance than Tracc….

Do you know this as fact??

Posted
2 hours ago, The_Wrecker_45 said:

How in tune with us is Jon Ralph at the minute.  He seems to be the follow up to a lot of our player stories at the moment.


Ralph is a shill. Not unknown to Pert.


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20 minutes ago, bluey said:

He’s 29 or so, done a lot of miles, in average condition.

Happy to let him board the Geelong express, for a good player and next years Cats first.

Time flies! I can't say I ever visualised what a 30+ year old senior citizen Clarry would look and play like. Would he play off half forward to squeeze the last juice out him come end of contract? Or even in 3-5 years? And then disappear quietly? Or would he give you high midfield numbers until the end?

On his age, He's looked and played like a wild kid in his early-mid 20's for his entire career from day dot.

 

Edit- lol just saw he's 27! Doh. 

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2 minutes ago, DeesignerAU said:

Meanwhile, seems to have been started again by Pert, sitting on his deckchair at his home in Noosa.

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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-inside-story-how-word-spread-that-oliver-was-on-the-market-again-20241001-p5kevi.html

Is player trading normally the role of the CEO? 2 Reviews but none on the role of CEO.......yeh, 2025's looking peachy

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Just now, Roost it far said:

Is player trading normally the role of the CEO? 2 Reviews but none on the role of CEO.......yeh, 2025's looking peachy

Might be in Noosa with Team Tracc😁

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1 minute ago, layzie said:

Is there anything we can do in a way that doesn't splatter us across the front of the newspapers at the moment? Anything at all?

Maybe let's start by keeping the CEO out of list management decisions? 

If this is not a ploy to remove Pert, I am seriously starting to question whether this club is capable of running a donut stand, let alone a football club.

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5 minutes ago, DeesignerAU said:

Meanwhile, seems to have been started again by Pert, sitting on his deckchair at his home in Noosa.

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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-inside-story-how-word-spread-that-oliver-was-on-the-market-again-20241001-p5kevi.html

This is a scathing article. 

It suggests that the club has tried floating Clarry’s name, then regretted it, and now is trying to walk it back. 

It’s inconsistent with what Jon Ralph has reported, and isn’t even consistent with McClure (McClure said Clarry wanted out, Gleeson says we’ve started this). But if it’s true, it is not good. 

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If Trac is demanding Clarry leave he can [censored] right off

Would be like Cotchin not being happy with how lenient the Tigers were with Dusty or the Pies with De Geoy

If true, I won’t be cheering on Trac ever again

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2 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

“Make no mistake, the Dees are happy for him to have a look (around)."

@tommorris32 💩💩💩💩💩provides the latest info surrounding Clayton Oliver and a potential move to Geelong. 

What sort of a gutless wonder makes a statement like that?

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Who knows what to believe at this point. But if this has been driven by Pert then today should be his last day as an employee of the football club. As if we haven't already been enough of a joke for the last 12 months.

Right now this club is just extremely hard to like from pretty much every angle.

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Bring back ACTION JACKSON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Archive image used above - don't get too excited

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23 minutes ago, DeesignerAU said:

Meanwhile, seems to have been started again by Pert, sitting on his deckchair at his home in Noosa.

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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-inside-story-how-word-spread-that-oliver-was-on-the-market-again-20241001-p5kevi.html

Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Gleeson has entered the arena🩸 

 

If you wanted to paint a picture of a club in disarray, this was as subtle as Ken Done.”

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13 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

This is a scathing article. 

It suggests that the club has tried floating Clarry’s name, then regretted it, and now is trying to walk it back. 

It’s inconsistent with what Jon Ralph has reported, and isn’t even consistent with McClure (McClure said Clarry wanted out, Gleeson says we’ve started this). But if it’s true, it is not good. 

three journos saying three very different things in two publications

so why believe any of em

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Agree its hard to know what to believe.

But if this is true... then it's not like Pert would be doing this independently of Goody / Tim Lamb / Jason Taylor etc.  If it is true, the Dees must think there is more risk of ongoing problems / fractures etc with Clarry staying or that he won't get back to his best.
 

Definitely hope its not true but after the last few years it feels like there does need to be some big changes / difficult calls to move forwrad.  Hopefully they make the right ones.

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15 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

This is a scathing article. 

It suggests that the club has tried floating Clarry’s name, then regretted it, and now is trying to walk it back. 

It’s inconsistent with what Jon Ralph has reported, and isn’t even consistent with McClure (McClure said Clarry wanted out, Gleeson says we’ve started this). But if it’s true, it is not good. 

As I have said all along, Roffey, Pert, Richardson and Goodwin all need to go! This really is the Icing on the cake and if true an absolute abomination!

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