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10 minutes ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Yeah sadly we just seemed to have pushed out a generational talent and no doubt it will bite us. 

Can't help but feel we'll plummet next year and Team Tracc will be off to the filth.

 
1 minute ago, Age said:

We are prepared to take a second rounder if the cats pay $500k of his contract. 
 

we may as well put Pickett and petracca up now, just get it over and one with 

Lol

May as well just pay him the $1m not to rock up to the club instead

8 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

um ... i think he pushed himself out, norm.  stop making excuses for him 

Has to be the truth. I really look foward to those memoirs in ten years time.

 
1 minute ago, adonski said:

Lol

May as well just pay him the $1m not to rock up to the club instead

Hopefully at least he will be able to afford shoes when he turns up to future preseason camps.

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 


37 minutes ago, Young Blood said:

Everyone seems under the assumption that it’s only going to be a two club transaction. Geelong knows very well they will need to get at least one other team involved to get the draft capital to make it work. They are an excellent creative recruiting team.

I never mentioned anything about a 2 club transaction. But if you look at what they’ve committed to with Smith, and the picks they have, they’d have to give up something genuinely valuable to anyone to get enough capital to bring in Smith and Oliver.

Also, I’m so over the narrative that other clubs are so wonderfully run. I know stories about Geelong, and its culture, that would make people’s toes curl. They benefit massively from the fact that no journo in Melbourne can be bothered to drive down there to dig dirt on such a short news cycle. It’s not as perfect as people think.

He arrived in Lorne with shoes. He just parted ways with them climbing fences in the wee hours.

30 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Oliver Twist's mentor was Fagin.  Clarry is off to Brisbane for sure!

And Geelong are the Artful Dodger

 
14 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 

BULLTISH

17 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 

What are his actions? He looks like he's in the best shape for years.


18 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 

Clayton is a product of his environment. Viney, Lever and McDonald aside, our senior players were all scallywags as younger men. Clayton learnt how to adult in that setting.

No doubt he's taken things to another level, but don't kid yourself we have/had a list of Trent Cotchin's and Sam Mitchell's

 

So what happened at the farm? I know farms have sheep and there might be some magic mushrooms growing in the hedge rows. Mysterious things can happen in isolated places. Could a callow type like Oliver be brainwashed to sell his soul to the cat cult? 

1 hour ago, Flowergirl said:

Is that your opinion that he's gone? Don't the club have to accept the offer that Geelong give?

Yep 

Surely we have to get at least a F1, to sell the trade to the Dees supporters

27 minutes ago, Chook in Perth said:

He arrived in Lorne with shoes. He just parted ways with them climbing fences in the wee hours.

Been there, done that. 


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4 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

If the Board and Pert have decided that its time for Oliver to go they need to get in touch with Richo, Lamb and Goodwin and explain that this is the direction the club is taking and they are instructed to find the best offer for him. Basic chain of command. It's terrible to have the footy dept blindsided by the CEO going over their heads.

Where is your evidence that the footy department was ‘blindsided’…? stop believing media BS 

50 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 

Good clubs manage these sort of players. The stories I used to hear about Buddy were staggering. Even Dusty has had his moments. 

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1 hour ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Yeah sadly we just seemed to have pushed out a generational talent and no doubt it will bite us. 

.... so Clarry had no part to play in all of this? No one likes this situation, but it aint all on the club here.

1 minute ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Good clubs manage these sort of players. The stories I used to hear about Buddy was staggering. Even Dusty has had his moments. 

and by manage do you mean cover things up and pretend that they aren't happening? 

1 hour ago, Swooper Northey said:

Clayton Oliver
AFL Premiership player: 2021
2 x AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award: 2021, 2022
3 x All-Australian team: 2018, 2021, 2022
4 x Keith 'Bluey' Truscott MedallistL 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022

In return, Geelong will offer up Spiro Malakellis, David Mensch and pick 53

They did give us Nigel Kol. Maybe they'll include his twin brother Michael as part of the trade.


1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

"cruel to clarry"?  puleez, give me a break

this is all on clarry.  the talk of clarry's off field behaviour has been the talk of the town for years and now it seems it really wasn't just so much talk

hard to feel sorry for clarry for all the damage done to the club despite all the help he has been given

It is on the club for failing to manage it.

1 hour ago, Demonsone said:

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 

Exactly.

 
1 hour ago, Demonsone said:

People having a crack at the club but the only thing that has created this are Oliver’s actions.. club has supported him continuously & only so much they can put up with …. 

And if he goes to Geelong and regains form we'll know that we just weren't equipped to handle it. S'all good.

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20 minutes ago, Ouch! said:

.... so Clarry had no part to play in all of this? No one likes this situation, but it aint all on the club here.

The club is a basketcase. We had two generational mids that we built a team around and got a flag while still in their mid 20s. Within 3 years we've reverted back to the basketcase we've been for 60 years and both those players (on long term contracts) want out. Heads must roll, the nuffies in charge are going to kill the club.

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