Oliver Trade Rumours

[Jaded No More 68,767]

4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

It's a sad [censored] day when you are agreeing with Kane Cornes

[demoniac 1,330]

9 minutes ago, Undeeterred said:

True

I mean, the depth at Casey was just smashing the door down after all

 

the depth at Casey had done the work in the preseason to be fit to play AFL. Goodwin and others selected Oliver when he had not done the work and was not fit to play AFL and this was exploited by his opponents who knew they could outspread him, and the more they ran, the further he'd be behind them. 

[Supreme_Demon 3,578]

8 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

[Rednblueriseing 812]

Maybe just maybe... Melbourne is a progressive club who are not afraid to shop there stars around to see what they could get trade wise, knowing this is the norm in other sports, and will be in the Afl in years to come.

[layzie 33,581]

13 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

It's a sad [censored] day when you are agreeing with Kane Cornes

Doesn't take a genius to make his comment though. 

[Sydee 4,324]

4 minutes ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Maybe just maybe... Melbourne is a progressive club who are not afraid to shop there stars around to see what they could get trade wise, knowing this is the norm in other sports, and will be in the Afl in years to come.

Progressive ? LOL 

Progressive is a phrase that seems to roll out often to gloss over unacceptable or stupid behaviour 

 

[mo64 5,767]

3 minutes ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Maybe just maybe... Melbourne is a progressive club who are not afraid to shop there stars around to see what they could get trade wise, knowing this is the norm in other sports, and will be in the Afl in years to come.

We've already done it with Jesse Hogan. Worked out well for us because we ended up with May. Didn't work out well for Freo because obviously the issues that he had with us didn't disappear. He only turned things around at GWS.

[higgsy75 8]

9 minutes ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Maybe just maybe... Melbourne is a progressive club who are not afraid to shop there stars around to see what they could get trade wise, knowing this is the norm in other sports, and will be in the Afl in years to come.

This.

[Nate 20]

19 minutes ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Maybe just maybe... Melbourne is a progressive club who are not afraid to shop there stars around to see what they could get trade wise, knowing this is the norm in other sports, and will be in the Afl in years to come.

We, or they, aren't that smart. 

[JJJ 1,175]

1 hour ago, Oxdee said:

There are literally 2-3 free agents this that have any worth… we haven missed much 

You’ll note I said trade prospects also….

[deanox 9,845]

36 minutes ago, demoniac said:

the depth at Casey had done the work in the preseason to be fit to play AFL. Goodwin and others selected Oliver when he had not done the work and was not fit to play AFL and this was exploited by his opponents who knew they could outspread him, and the more they ran, the further he'd be behind them. 

Oliver got 30 touches round 1, and 35 (and 3 Brownlow votes) in round 2.

No one at VFL was going to outperform Oliver this year.

 

Whether he had "served" his penalty is a different story, but on performance he may not have been the Oliver of old but he was better than any of our depth would have been.

[dees189227 12,319]

Max summed it up well. Sick of our opinions getting out. Couldn't agree more.

[binman 42,262]

The dees are certainly testing the theory that all news is good news.

[Red But Mostly Blue 4,533]

8 minutes ago, deanox said:

Oliver got 30 touches round 1, and 35 (and 3 Brownlow votes) in round 2.

No one at VFL was going to outperform Oliver this year.

 

Whether he had "served" his penalty is a different story, but on performance he may not have been the Oliver of old but he was better than any of our depth would have been.

Exactly right. I think people have already forgotten that we have very little depth. Our #2s finished 17th and can't really say anybody there was banging down the door on a regular basis to perform better than Clarry. While Clarry was certainly not fit, I think his performances were judged against his prior years - which is obviously a crazy high bar. 

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,587]

What if the strategy all along was to pretend our stars are connected to big trades while secretly going for a super star? lol

[Sir Why You Little 36,797]

10 minutes ago, deanox said:

Oliver got 30 touches round 1, and 35 (and 3 Brownlow votes) in round 2.

No one at VFL was going to outperform Oliver this year.

 

Whether he had "served" his penalty is a different story, but on performance he may not have been the Oliver of old but he was better than any of our depth would have been.

But Oliver needed time at Casey to get fit and to show some discipline,

regardless of what Casey had on their list 

[Demonland 70,902]

 

[Nate 20]

2 hours ago, DeeZee said:

What really concerns me as it does Max is the leaking of information.

Whos doing it?

Cant they do anything without the whole world knowing about it immediately?

Why would people within the club want to hurt the club?

Well Crisis Management must not be the General Manager for Media and Comms forte.

[Undeeterred 3,111]

7 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

But Oliver needed time at Casey to get fit and to show some discipline,

regardless of what Casey had on their list 

That’s just absolute rot. He got Brownlow votes, he was fine 

[Undeeterred 3,111]

1 hour ago, demoniac said:

the depth at Casey had done the work in the preseason to be fit to play AFL. Goodwin and others selected Oliver when he had not done the work and was not fit to play AFL and this was exploited by his opponents who knew they could outspread him, and the more they ran, the further he'd be behind them. 

Name the player you’d have had in the team instead 

[Billy 2,520]

If the Clarry is staying the media will move straight onto Kozzie want out.

Will be within minutes 

[demoniac 1,330]

3 minutes ago, Undeeterred said:

Name the player you’d have had in the team instead 

any mid who could match his opponents running. 

[DubDee 25,162]

The media spin their tweet wheel:

Oliver wants out

Demons tell Oliver to look for a trade

Demons want to keep Oliver

Oliver to Cats is a virtual certainty 

Oliver still loves MFC and wants to stay

Give it a spin Tom! This is an actual job but don’t worry you don’t need any sources and if you’re wrong it doesn’t matter!

[Demons11 6,847]

5 minutes ago, DubDee said:

The media spin their tweet wheel:

Oliver wants out

Demons tell Oliver to look for a trade

Demons want to keep Oliver

Oliver to Cats is a virtual certainty 

Oliver still loves MFC and wants to stay

 

Give it a spin Tom! This is an actual job but don’t worry you don’t need any sources and if you’re wrong it doesn’t matter!

Let’s be realistic here, if you think everything that has come out has been a lie then you are delusional 

[Demonstone 22,030]

14 minutes ago, Undeeterred said:

Name the player you’d have had in the team instead 

If we're looking for somebody who spreads very well, I'd nominate Butters (except when it's cold).