if Trac goes I will be disappointed but renew my membership and go to the MCG each week to watch the boys we do have in the red and blue do their best. Go Dees.

3 hours ago, chookrat said:

I was talking to someone with close connections to Collingwood about the Daicos brothers being unhappy at Collingwood and wanting out. Their dramatic fall from 2023 Premiers to being outside of the 8 this year, combined with their coach calling the playing list a bunch of losers a few weeks ago, and then going blaming last weeks loss on the umpires can only have left them disenfranchised with the direction of the club.

I heard something very similar.

Can't reveal source, but he's been on the money before.

Big if true.

Where there smoke....

If we lose Truck MFC will become my 2nd team after the entry of the Tassie Devils. Until then I'll offer my support but it won't use up my emotional energy the way it has for 7 decades.

1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Again, I know that. I was questioning the poster’s assertion that Burgo was the one who “instigated” that move. 

It was Burgo who approached Goodwin first, saying Jackson was due for a rest.

Just because 💪🏻

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4 hours ago, chookrat said:

I was talking to someone with close connections to Collingwood about the Daicos brothers being unhappy at Collingwood and wanting out. Their dramatic fall from 2023 Premiers to being outside of the 8 this year, combined with their coach calling the playing list a bunch of losers a few weeks ago, and then going blaming last weeks loss on the umpires can only have left them disenfranchised with the direction of the club.

Wait till half their team retires in the next few years 

No way no how will the Daicos brothers leave Collingwood.
They'd jettison Mcrae before that happened.

2 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

No way no how will the Daicos brothers leave Collingwood.
They'd jettison Mcrae before that happened.

Probably true.  Still astounding that there has been no media focus on this.  Premiers in 2023, out in zero sets in 2024.

This thread has not only jumped the shark, it’s circled back to teach the shark a thing or two about internet absurdity.

1 hour ago, Deented Head said:

Just because 💪🏻

Love the Pig, now there’s a heart & soul no bulltish player

1 hour ago, sisso said:

if Trac goes I will be disappointed but renew my membership and go to the MCG each week to watch the boys we do have in the red and blue do their best. Go Dees.

Agree, and I like your wording "if Tracc goes".  I prefer those words to “we lost Tracc”.  'We lost Tracc" puts 100% blame on the MFC.  Yes, the club has a remarkable knack of fluffing stuff up, but does Tracc have some ounce of responsibility in this too, even 1%?  The club could have done lots differently, but are there things Tracc could have done differently too? I will watch and wait like the rest of us.

23 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

No way no how will the Daicos brothers leave Collingwood.
They'd jettison Mcrae before that happened.

Clubhouse leader for this week's "Missed The Obvious Joke" Award.

still waiting for @Little Richard to say more...

6 hours ago, Colm said:

Ok have I missed something- has then been another story in the press I haven’t hear off? Why is everybody convinced he’s off to the Pies? Should I been even more worried or are we all just jumping at shadows?

Coz KingDingaLing announced it 2 months back?

15 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

If Trac goes …he goes because sadly we’re not a top 4 club (member wise) He loves playing in front of big crowds & what we dish up (crowd wise)  is not what he wants. He def wouldn’t go interstate (no MCG) there & so who knows who will come for him but I’d rather have Oliver & Viney (who will stay) because I believe they bleed red & blue (like Max) . I don’t feel that with Trac. He’s 29 played in all our finals series but didn’t make a difference in winning or losing so I’d def take the high picks if they come our way. I personally have lost a bit of love for him..still can’t believe he acknowledged Maynard after the Brayshaw act. 

 

This is an insane post and symptomatic of a particular section of our fanbase that is legitimately living in an alternate reality.

 

Trac was our best player in the 2021 finals, not only was he literally BOG in the GF but he also was at worst our 2nd player in the prelim win over the Cats. He then played a finals series with a broken leg in 2022. You're telling me Trac isn't the one who is connected to the club? The guy who was crying after we beat the Cats in 2021? Meanwhile your 'hero' Oliver wanted a trade end of 2020 because he cracked the [censored] at not placing higher in the B&F, then proceeded to completely go off the rails last year and put a massive spotlight on the club (I'm not even mentioning his terrible form this year).

 

I'd be shattered if Trac left but I can't blame him for being upset - not only over the handling of his injury, but the complete lack of standards in player selection, teammates taking the [censored] off the field etc. The sooner our fanbase wakes up to how much of a hole the club is in (Due to our own doing) the better.

While Christian is yet to front the Media on his concerns with the current state of affairs, it might be of interest to reflect on his press conference after last year's SF. 

SF | Media Conference | Christian Petracca (melbournefc.com.au)

Just to keep the discussion rolling. There’s been rumours about Tracc to the Pies for several months. All completely unverified. Maybe he does want out? Maybe this week’s release by someone close enough to him is start of the process that will see him ask for a trade. Of course I think this is unlikely but we can’t rule it out. Has he played his last game for us? 
one thing you gotta love about this club is it just keeps on giving. 

His silence, as each day goes on, is definitely alarming now I think.

2 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

Just to keep the discussion rolling. There’s been rumours about Tracc to the Pies for several months. All completely unverified. Maybe he does want out? Maybe this week’s release by someone close enough to him is start of the process that will see him ask for a trade. Of course I think this is unlikely but we can’t rule it out. Has he played his last game for us? 
one thing you gotta love about this club is it just keeps on giving. 

Unless the Pies manage to get a refund on Lachie Shultz I can't see that happening!

I haven’t seen anywhere, that Trac wants out, so l don’t believe it . This is particularly after the level he’s reached and the C/V created  being a Melbourne player.

There are hundreds/ thousands of adoring little kids with No. 5 adorning their jumpers demonstrating their feeling for him.

As an aside, a relatively raw Jackson, with nothing approaching the same sort of C/V required 2 first rounders and a second rounder.

Trac is a huge step up from this, not to mention he is on a lucrative long term contract. 

4 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

Just to keep the discussion rolling. There’s been rumours about Tracc to the Pies for several months. All completely unverified. Maybe he does want out? Maybe this week’s release by someone close enough to him is start of the process that will see him ask for a trade. Of course I think this is unlikely but we can’t rule it out. Has he played his last game for us? 
one thing you gotta love about this club is it just keeps on giving. 

Let's say Trac wants to go to the Pies, he is smart enough and his management are smart enough to know that there is no world in which the Pies have anything that would satisfy us in a trade. For starters they have no first round pick this year. Their best players are all old, or a Daicos, which they clearly will not trade. 
It is just a total fantasy.

If his life long desire was to play for Collingwood, he doesn't commit to SEVEN years at Melbourne. 

 

Breaking News

Employee who doesn't agree with management decisions and tired of tolerating certain work place behaviours of some colleagues, canvases employment opportunities elsewhere.

Seems like a pretty mundane and appropriate thing to do if you ask me...

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5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Let's say Trac wants to go to the Pies, he is smart enough and his management are smart enough to know that there is no world in which the Pies have anything that would satisfy us in a trade. For starters they have no first round pick this year. Their best players are all old, or a Daicos, which they clearly will not trade. 
It is just a total fantasy.

If his life long desire was to play for Collingwood, he doesn't commit to SEVEN years at Melbourne. 

 

I’m just throwing it out there as part of the discussion. Maybe the Pies come at us with Quaynor, their first this year and next. Deals get done, the world moves on. Obviously I find him leaving unlikely but not impossible and I enjoy the discussion 

22 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

Just to keep the discussion rolling. There’s been rumours about Tracc to the Pies for several months. All completely unverified. Maybe he does want out? Maybe this week’s release by someone close enough to him is start of the process that will see him ask for a trade. Of course I think this is unlikely but we can’t rule it out. Has he played his last game for us? 
one thing you gotta love about this club is it just keeps on giving. 

I guess playing for C'wood reduces the chances of bad and career ending injuries.

5 hours ago, Superunknown said:

Is this for real?

I find the alleged Macrae comment interesting. Nasty. Omg11111\/\/h@t about their c|_|Ltur3111111

Here is what he said and then they went on to lose some more.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/sport/afl/edge-of-being-losers-craig-mcrae-delivers-blunt-reality-check-for-pies/news-story/888cdccdeb39b1aa3f451dc1d0880aa8%3famp