Oliver Trade Rumours

[von 1,559]

3 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

Why did he do that PF? Or why did the Club pick him then? Either Clarry or the Club cannot / don’t deserve to use that excuse.

PS I assume you won’t be leaving us now PF?

We don’t exactly have any midfield depth. We didn’t even have a full midfield most of the year. Who takes his place?

[John Demonic 5,702]

3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Agree.

Morrris didn’t drive Clarry down to Rhys Stanley’s farm to meet him and Tom Stewart and also to a meeting with Scott, Hocking and Danger.

How do you know it wasn't a body double?

[Redleg 40,773]

1 minute ago, John Demonic said:

How do you know it wasn't a body double?

Well it wouldn’t be Morris then would it?

[greenwaves 489]

7 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Morrris didn’t drive Clarry down to Rhys Stanley’s farm to meet him and Tom Stewart and also to a meeting with Scott, Hocking and Danger.

Exactly right.  People don't like what the story is saying so they go after the journalist

[drysdale demon 4,823]

21 minutes ago, bing181 said:

None of us know where this is coming from. There was a lot of info around what was going on with Geelong that only they could know. Today’s could have been Oliver’s management. etc etc

Regaedless of who it is, it needs to stop and today is just small part piece  of the pie,

Edited October 4 by drysdale demon

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,589]

Well they were wrong about the Clarry situation being clarified during the BNF.

[BLWNBA 923]

1 hour ago, Oxdee said:

Correct.. it’s as if people think morris is behind all of this. 

Fanboys gotta blame someone. 

[layzie 33,721]

1 hour ago, Oxdee said:

Correct.. it’s as if people think morris is behind all of this. 

Haha yeah the monkey behind the curtains 

[Jaded No More 68,835]

Just now, layzie said:

Haha yeah the monkey behind the curtains 

Has anyone seen Tom Morris and Putin in the same room together?… just saying

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew 5,030]

Team sheet for Round 1, 2025, is out, as announced by our Pres. At the first bounce will be Gawn, Viney, Petracca and, apparently, one C. Oliver.

[Graeme Yeats' Mullet 6,772]

10 minutes ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Well they were wrong about the Clarry situation being clarified during the BNF.

Didn't Green say 2025 would begin with Gawn tapping down to Petracca and Oliver to win first Clearance... or something like that?

I took that as a thinly veiled whack to trade speculation... IE the Board says No-Way!

[DubDee 25,433]

3 hours ago, praha said:

This guy doesn't give up.

He spun the wheel of random Clarry tweets

It literally means nothing 

[spirit of norm smith 16,163]

“I know, come round one next year, when I see the first ball bounced and our midfield of Gawn, Viney, Oliver and Petracca ... that you Melbourne faithful will be there in full force," Green said.

[gs77 4,050]

Just now, spirit of norm smith said:

“I know, come round one next year, when I see the first ball bounced and our midfield of Gawn, Viney, Oliver and Petracca ... that you Melbourne faithful will be there in full force," Green said.

...while mis-pronouncing Petracca.

[BLWNBA 923]

2 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

“I know, come round one next year, when I see the first ball bounced and our midfield of Gawn, Viney, Oliver and Petracca ... that you Melbourne faithful will be there in full force," Green said.

I look forward to the accompanying turnover. 

[DubDee 25,433]

Can anyone watching confirm Clarry was there please?

[Kevin dyson 33]

4 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Can anyone watching confirm Clarry was there please?

Yep, he just did an insta story. Who’s this Jayk guy he’s always hanging with? 

[Jaded No More 68,835]

3 minutes ago, Kevin dyson said:

Yep, he just did an insta story. Who’s this Jayk guy he’s always hanging with? 

His housemate / friend 

[Ethan Tremblay 30,798]

10 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

His housemate / friend 

And business partner. He was also at the Brownlow with Clarry. Who names their kid “Jayk”? Bogan AF. 

Edited October 4 by Ethan Tremblay

[DubDee 25,433]

33 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

And business partner. He was also at the Brownlow with Clarry. Who names their kid “Jayk”? Bogan AF. 

is it a homage to Jay K Rowling by any chance?

[layzie 33,721]

4 hours ago, praha said:

This guy doesn't give up.

He's dropping something fresh alright..

[Hawk the Demon 955]

1 hour ago, gs77 said:

...while mis-pronouncing Petracca.

Trac won't be happy about that.....

[deejammin' 2,361]

6 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Well clearly that's not the case.

I think you and a few others are misunderstanding what I am saying.

I’m NOT saying no players or people affiliated with players and club staff are leaking, some of them to Morris, clearly Trac’s camp has. That’s exactly what Gawny was lamenting today and it has to stop. Partly as it spreads rumours maliciously, ask any player “your club is shopping player x around, why?” And they may well be able to come up with behavioural reasons, or disgruntled other players or dynamics between staff and the player to explain why. Particularly when there’s a review underway, But it’s a classic disingenuous journalism and lawyer tactic as it’s all speculation and the players don’t know that original statement to be true, it may be false, and thus they may be providing reasons which don’t exist for a situation that isn’t happening.
 

I’m also NOT saying Clarry didn’t meet with Geelong. That’s well documented. 
 

What I am saying is that the people/person at the heart of this issue at MFC are NOT leaking to Morris.

This whole thing boils down to:

1. Did Gary Pert shop Oliver to other club officials.

2. Was he doing so with the blessing of the footy department, list management team and were they planning to push Oliver out. 

3. Were the board aware. 

None of the people from MFC who know the answers to those three things are leaking to Morris. As I said in my original post neither the BOARD nor ADMINISTRATION are leaking to Morris, especially given his history with the club. He is extremely disliked by MFC for breaking stories while an employee. Extremely disliked by the Bulldogs for breaking stories without fact checking and sensitivity checking first, Richmond ditto. Even if Pert, Goodwin, Lamb, Richo or the board wanted to leak to the media. It wouldn’t be Morris.

So where did Morris’s original story that Pet was shopping Oliver around come from? Clearly officials from the other club(s) involved. 
 

This will all play out now but one of three things has happened. 

1. Pert did do it on his own and will likely be gone now as he has lost the faith of the board, administration and football department. 

2. Pert did do it with the blessing of at least part of the list management comittee or FD and our club is a dumpster fire that has lost the plot. The review needs to be made independent of Pert and we need to get our house in order even more than we already did.

3. Club officials at Geelong misrepresented an honest conversation with Pert where he didn’t shop Oliver around for their own advantage. Or worse made the whole thing up. Oliver and his management heard from reporters this was the case and looked into Geelong as he was hurt by this reporting and flattered by their pitch. 
 

All three scenarios are possible and I don’t trust Tom Morris or Sam McLure to give us any unbiased or truthful opinions on this. I don’t believe the board only found all this out two days ago and that’s why it’s stopped either, as reported by Morris tonight. They would’ve been across the media the whole time. And there’s no way the board was leaking that to Morris. They are the only ones who would know. 
 

That’s what I was saying, agree or disagree, but nothing is “clearly the case” here.

 

 

Edited October 4 by deejammin'

[The Trunk 24]

Well IF Pert did shop Clarry around and the Board shut it down his position as CEO is now untenable 

[KozzyCan 764]

6 hours ago, deejammin' said:

I think you and a few others are misunderstanding what I am saying.

I’m NOT saying no players or people affiliated with players and club staff are leaking, some of them to Morris, clearly Trac’s camp has. That’s exactly what Gawny was lamenting today and it has to stop. Partly as it spreads rumours maliciously, ask any player “your club is shopping player x around, why?” And they may well be able to come up with behavioural reasons, or disgruntled other players or dynamics between staff and the player to explain why. Particularly when there’s a review underway, But it’s a classic disingenuous journalism and lawyer tactic as it’s all speculation and the players don’t know that original statement to be true, it may be false, and thus they may be providing reasons which don’t exist for a situation that isn’t happening.
 

I’m also NOT saying Clarry didn’t meet with Geelong. That’s well documented. 
 

What I am saying is that the people/person at the heart of this issue at MFC are NOT leaking to Morris.

This whole thing boils down to:

1. Did Gary Pert shop Oliver to other club officials.

2. Was he doing so with the blessing of the footy department, list management team and were they planning to push Oliver out. 

3. Were the board aware. 

None of the people from MFC who know the answers to those three things are leaking to Morris. As I said in my original post neither the BOARD nor ADMINISTRATION are leaking to Morris, especially given his history with the club. He is extremely disliked by MFC for breaking stories while an employee. Extremely disliked by the Bulldogs for breaking stories without fact checking and sensitivity checking first, Richmond ditto. Even if Pert, Goodwin, Lamb, Richo or the board wanted to leak to the media. It wouldn’t be Morris.

So where did Morris’s original story that Pet was shopping Oliver around come from? Clearly officials from the other club(s) involved. 
 

This will all play out now but one of three things has happened. 

1. Pert did do it on his own and will likely be gone now as he has lost the faith of the board, administration and football department. 

2. Pert did do it with the blessing of at least part of the list management comittee or FD and our club is a dumpster fire that has lost the plot. The review needs to be made independent of Pert and we need to get our house in order even more than we already did.

3. Club officials at Geelong misrepresented an honest conversation with Pert where he didn’t shop Oliver around for their own advantage. Or worse made the whole thing up. Oliver and his management heard from reporters this was the case and looked into Geelong as he was hurt by this reporting and flattered by their pitch. 
 

All three scenarios are possible and I don’t trust Tom Morris or Sam McLure to give us any unbiased or truthful opinions on this. I don’t believe the board only found all this out two days ago and that’s why it’s stopped either, as reported by Morris tonight. They would’ve been across the media the whole time. And there’s no way the board was leaking that to Morris. They are the only ones who would know. 
 

That’s what I was saying, agree or disagree, but nothing is “clearly the case” here.

 

 

How can you be sure no one is talking to Morris? Because he [censored] off a few people at the club 10 years ago? Seems like a stretch. Most of the people who are at the club now wouldn't have been there for that episode and the ones who were are probably over it by now.

A lot of the reports to me have felt like clumsy attempts from our side to set the narrative. I think there are people within the club who think they can use the media like a tool to run their agendas.