Oliver Trade Rumours

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8 hours ago, Bowserpower said:

You've just been given the company line why would they tell you what was really going on?

It's almost as laughable as when another cheer squad member claimed that the cheers quad work really closely with the football department. One of the most ridiculous things I've seen on here and I've never heard such rubbish.

These people would have countless losers coming up to them asking them for goss. You're just not as important as you think you are.

Back it up a notch fella. It's a beautiful morning. Take a walk in the sun and breathe in some fresh air. 

Edited October 11 by Roost it far

[Satyriconhome 10,511]

24 minutes ago, picket fence said:

My source reiterated last night that Clarry WILL be a Cat by end of trade period! I hope this is wrong!! 🤮🤯😵‍💫😵

Can you please name your source, as the club monitors this site, and they will be able to follow it up to ensure they are all on the same page with the deal.😆🤣😃🙃

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

Source - My wife’s boyfriend - said that OLIVER will either stay at Melbourne or he won’t. 
 

to be fair, I think from a Melbourne position we hold him for 12 more months. The main reasons for this are:

Teams don’t get better losing A grade talent. 

I don’t think Geelong will give us what we believe he is worth - trade wise.

We definitely do not need to clear up our books, so his contract is not detrimental to us signing players or retaining players. 

I think that he will return to form with a pre season leading to an increase in form and therefore increase in trade value. If in 12 months he wants to leave then we can shop him around and put him on the market as opposed to just Geelong. if he does not return to form - his value will be what is being offered to us by Geelong anyway. 

I think that there is no real net gain for us to send off OLIVER unless we are able to get 2 x first rounders or something similar in value.
Also if we trade OLIVER we basically go into full rebuild mode. which I’m not sure will be fun 

 

[Moonshadow 17,663]

34 minutes ago, picket fence said:

My source reiterated last night that Clarry WILL be a Cat by end of trade period! I hope this is wrong!! 🤮🤯😵‍💫😵

He already is a strange cat, man...

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34 minutes ago, picket fence said:

My source reiterated last night that Clarry WILL be a Cat by end of trade period! I hope this is wrong!! 🤮🤯😵‍💫😵

did your source tell you how it gets done? What are Geelong offering in exchange and is it reasonable?

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1 hour ago, picket fence said:

We all get info,whether wrongly or rightly, and what's the relevance to importance? We all have opinions!

I have the same info as you coming from within the four walls of another club. 
 

the only thing is surely Brad Green would know our intentions and if so not double down on confirming him to stay? Bnf night and recently on twitter .

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[FreedFromDesire 854]

Many Melbourne Football Club people are currently on or involved in "Daniher's Drive", which is a fantastic initiative and well supported by former players and current club people. The talk coming from that, obviously from people who would have at least some what of an idea of what's happening at the moment, is very much that Oliver will be held to contract and won't be traded.

[Redleg 40,621]

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

We all get info,whether wrongly or rightly, and what's the relevance to importance? We all have opinions!

 

Agree with everything except maybe the last 2 words.

We all hear rumours and personally I love hearing them whether they turn out correct or incorrect. It’s one of the reasons DL is good reading.

I disagree with attacking people over their rumours and hope they always continue.

Just on this one about Clarry going to the Cats, it would see several people appear as liars or fools if it happened. Lamb, Green, Richo and Goody have all said 100% he is staying. Mackie said it won’t happen too as i recall. The Cats apparently only offering a F1 and not wanting all of his salary and not budging. That if true would stop it happening.

For the above reasons I don’t see it happening, but then again footy is a funny business, yes business not game.

Keep up the rumours Picket and watch out for those snakes.

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58 minutes ago, Mad_Melbourne said:

Source - My wife’s boyfriend - said that OLIVER will either stay at Melbourne or he won’t. 
 

Gee that annoys me

I specifically told your wife to not tell anyone!

[Satyriconhome 10,511]

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

We all get info,whether wrongly or rightly, and what's the relevance to importance? We all have opinions!

I thought you said it was a fact not an opinion? There is a subtle difference.

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11 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

Many Melbourne Football Club people are currently on or involved in "Daniher's Drive",

Read this and immediately thought we were trying to convince Joe Daniher to come out of retirement lol

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1 hour ago, Satyriconhome said:

Can you please name your source, as the club monitors this site, and they will be able to follow it up to ensure they are all on the same page with the deal.😆🤣😃🙃

Don't know why you're so salty Saty. Obviously we're not going to reveal our sources.

I can't speak for Picket but my source is a very good one who has no reason to feed me BS. I thought Demonlanders would want to know that Geelong still think they're a chance. 

That's me done for the day. Enjoy the sunshine folks.

[Neil Crompton 5,386]

1 minute ago, Satyriconhome said:

I thought you said it was a fact not an opinion? There is a subtle difference.

It’s a fact he got told this Saty. There is a subtle difference. 

[binman 42,263]

9 hours ago, Mel Bourne said:

Calm down, dude.

Man, this site is becoming increasingly toxic of late. 

Yep.

Some absolutely trash posting. Playing the person not the ball. 

And of course it's all the usual suspects.

Makes the site bordering unreadable.

Embarrassing really as I presume such posts are from adults. 

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I’ve been told by most of my football following friends that all of Oliver, Petracca and Pickett are definitely gone. They’ve also suggested Goodwin is a dud, the club is a joke, the window was never open, the flag doesn’t count as it was in Perth and none of it matters anyway as I’ll be at the snow. One seriously continues with the line that the Doggies were the better team in 21 and hadn’t it been for a few pivotal free kicks they would have won the flag. 
 

I just reread this and realised I don’t have to leave Demonland to get these opinions, ain’t life grand!
 

Edited October 11 by Roost it far

[Adam The God 29,797]

This thread is ripe for a...

[sue 9,074]

2 minutes ago, Neil Crompton said:

It’s a fact he got told this Saty. There is a subtle difference. 

That's true. (Well to be precise, it's a fact he says he was told.)  But on the other hand so many people seem to have a 'source'. No way of knowing how good the source is or even  if people aren't just making it all up. 

We need an impartial scoreboard of who got things right about such things in the past and who didn't.   Good luck with that.

Binman is right - this is getting unreadable.

 

[Redleg 40,621]

15 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

I’ve been told by most of my football following friends that all of Oliver, Petracca and Pickett are definitely gone. They’ve also suggested Goodwin is a dud, the club is a joke, the window was never open, the flag doesn’t count as it was in Perth and none of it matters anyway as I’ll be at the snow. One seriously continues with the line that the Doggies were the better team in 21 and hadn’t it been for a few pivotal free kicks they would have won the flag. 
 

 

I think we have the same friends.

[Redleg 40,621]

5 minutes ago, sue said:

That's true. (Well to be precise, it's a fact he says he was told.)  But on the other hand so many people seem to have a 'source'. No way of knowing how good the source is or even  if people aren't just making it all up. 

We need an impartial scoreboard of who got things right about such things in the past and who didn't.   Good luck with that.

Binman is right - this is getting unreadable.

 

Only 5 more days.

[Bowserpower 137]

1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

Back it up a notch fella. It's a beautiful morning. Take a walk in the sun and breathe in some fresh air. 

Some of these responses to a perfectly reasonable take are baffling considering there have been so many worse meltdown comments this week.

I understand that people love a certain member of the cheersquad and it hurts their feelings when they read these things about them but it's not right to parade around this position of power and strength and then spread stuff around. I'm pretty sure there are rules here against it.

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Just now, Bowserpower said:

Some of these responses to a perfectly reasonable take are baffling considering there have been so many worse meltdown comments this week.

I understand that people love a certain member of the cheersquad and it hurts their feelings when they read these things about them but it's not right to parade around this position of power and strength and then spread stuff around. I'm pretty sure there are rules here against it.

Just be Kind…..

[Bowserpower 137]

22 minutes ago, binman said:

Yep.

Some absolutely trash posting. Playing the person not the ball. 

And of course it's all the usual suspects.

Makes the site bordering unreadable.

Embarrassing really as I presume such posts are from adults. 

Must be others because I'm not playing the person, I'm sure they are nice people. We're not stupid though and when cheersquad members are present in board and football department meetings then I'll listen.

[layzie 33,583]

21 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

I’ve been told by most of my football following friends that all of Oliver, Petracca and Pickett are definitely gone. They’ve also suggested Goodwin is a dud, the club is a joke, the window was never open, the flag doesn’t count as it was in Perth and none of it matters anyway as I’ll be at the snow. One seriously continues with the line that the Doggies were the better team in 21 and hadn’t it been for a few pivotal free kicks they would have won the flag. 
 

I just reread this and realised I don’t have to leave Demonland to get these opinions, ain’t life grand!
 

Haha yeah and Petracca and Oliver were actually gone back then, the club is a joke and we don't have a home,  the flag was staged like the moon landing (All Perth residents were asked in the mail to keep it a secret from us) 

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28 minutes ago, Bowserpower said:

Must be others because I'm not playing the person, I'm sure they are nice people. We're not stupid though and when cheersquad members are present in board and football department meetings then I'll listen.

Are you listening to those who say they have contacts? Because unless those contacts are on the Geelong board or football department they probably should be taken with the same amount of salt. 

[mo64 5,767]

32 minutes ago, sue said:

That's true. (Well to be precise, it's a fact he says he was told.)  But on the other hand so many people seem to have a 'source'. No way of knowing how good the source is or even  if people aren't just making it all up. 

We need an impartial scoreboard of who got things right about such things in the past and who didn't.   Good luck with that.

Binman is right - this is getting unreadable.

 

Is it only unreadable because the rumours are seen as negative towards the MFC? Are you ok with people posting that we are still actively trying to recruit Wade Derksen, even though Jason McCartney has publicly shut down any move?

Whilst the powers that be at the MFC have shut down Oliver being traded, I've no doubt that Oliver's management are still in discussion with the Cats to get a reasonable trade proposal on the table. And I'm sure that's where PF's rumour is coming from. If it doesn't eventuate, it doesn't mean that his rumour was incorrect.