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You’ve got 7 months to get right for next season Trac

Rest up, recover mentally and you’ll be back better than ever 

IF Trac was to go, it would have to be for a generational mudfielder i.e. Reid.  Note we have already lost a top talent in Brayshaw for no return (draft).  Our midfield currently is that of a bottom 8 side (declining Oliver, Aging Viney and inexperienced flankers learning the trade).

Trac is worth 3 first round picks (2 top 10) or 2 top 10 picks and an A grader. With these you'd go to West Coast and offer 3 first rounders for Reid (plus all the money saved from Braushaw and Trac).

A quick rebuild of the club around Reid would have us challenging for a flag within 2 years!

Edited by Ungarieboy

 
8 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

Sam McClure is a joke. Lloyd is hit and miss. Leigh Matthews the only one talking sense.

Unfortunately, this will keep bubbling away, causing distraction, until trade week is over unless Trac makes a statement. He can do it through his manager or through the club. Do it for his own sake if nothing else because I can't see how the continued attention helps his recovery.

He's had a very tough time of it. no denying that. but he has botched this and done our club no favours.


7 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Trac for TDK and Carlton’s first and future 1st in a heart beat. Perfect ruck/fwd and will be one a future ruck star, better than LJ. 

I wouldn’t waste any picks  on Houston. if Trac leaves, we will have to turn over that list in a big way. Target athletic types with kicking skills. Don’t need the contested bulls anymore. Game has changed. Windsor is the perfect template. 

The only young top end talent we have is Windsor and Kozzy. JVR still a question mark. Every other young player McVee, Rivers, Howes, Kolt, AMW will be depth / role players. Will bob up and play a great game now and then, but will not be the top 4-5 you build a premiership team around.

We should have sold the farm for Reid in the draft. He won’t come to us now. 

We have 2-3 years to get this right or we will  go nowhere for the next decade.

There is no way TDK comes to Melbourne. As if Carlton would part with him, and I doubt he'd want to leave. 

2 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

He’ll make roughly double from non-football-related social media than he does from his football contract this year.

He’ll make $2 million from social posts? I doubt that.

 
7 minutes ago, Ugottobekidding said:

We won't be getting Reid.

And 6 months ago no one thought there was a chance of another club getting Trac!

Jon Ralph is right. The longer the silence endures, the clearer it becomes that "wanting the club to be better" won't happen as players we are targeting decide to avoid the chaos. He's obviously suffering with his MH, which makes it very tough to know how to react.


3 minutes ago, Pirlo said:

Jon Ralph is right. The longer the silence endures, the clearer it becomes that "wanting the club to be better" won't happen as players we are targeting decide to avoid the chaos. He's obviously suffering with his MH, which makes it very tough to know how to react.

Looking forward to being advised by the media we should do the right thing and trade Christian to the Pies for a second rounder for his 'mental health'

59 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

He’ll make $2 million from social posts? I doubt that.

You can doubt it if you want and I don’t care too much if you believe me or not but I know that is the amount he’ll make this year from it (and related partnerships)

Edited by The Jackson FIX

54 minutes ago, Pirlo said:

Jon Ralph is right. The longer the silence endures, the clearer it becomes that "wanting the club to be better" won't happen as players we are targeting decide to avoid the chaos. He's obviously suffering with his MH, which makes it very tough to know how to react.

The media noise means sweet FA to oppo players. 99% clickbait or troll material for fans of the other 17. 

We won 11 games FFS. One would think we won 3.

2 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

The media noise means sweet FA to oppo players. 99% clickbait or troll material for fans of the other 17. 

We won 11 games FFS. One would think we won 3.

Part of the negativity comes from our following capitulations:

Freo x 2

Brisbane at the G

Collingwood x 2

The above wouldn't happen in 2022 or 2023.


58 minutes ago, Pirlo said:

Jon Ralph is right. The longer the silence endures, the clearer it becomes that "wanting the club to be better" won't happen as players we are targeting decide to avoid the chaos. He's obviously suffering with his MH, which makes it very tough to know how to react.

Agree.

Ralphy was spot. In a time where we should be out actively talking to opposition players in getting them to the club, the noise coming our of the club would not be helping this one bit.

I take the MH into consideration but it's unfair on the club and members there there has been silence because all it does is create unnecessary speculation. 

Use his manager if he has to in releasing a statement out saying he either wants to stay or go. 

If Trac gets to Carlton, we'd be handing them a flag IMO.

If I were Carlton, I'd be trading McKay to Melbourne for Trac, and possibly their first rounder.

Edited by Adam The God

18 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

The media noise means sweet FA to oppo players. 99% clickbait or troll material for fans of the other 17. 

We won 11 games FFS. One would think we won 3.

That would be fine if it was W/L that the club had been copping heat over alone.

10 minutes ago, reynolds46 said:

Would petracca even be able to pass a club medical to be traded to another club this year?

I think Trac will play very little football in 25 if he plays at all but he also has probably 4-6 years left as an elite player. I think any club with a window bigger than a year would take him in a heart beat.  


30 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

If Trac gets to Carlton, we'd be handing them a flag IMO.

If I were Carlton, I'd be trading McKay to Melbourne for Trac, and possibly their first rounder.

And in this hypothetical, we not only hand Carlton a flag, we drastically improve our chances of winning one too.

 

5 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

I think Trac will play very little football in 25 if he plays at all but he also has probably 4-6 years left as an elite player. I think any club with a window bigger than a year would take him in a heart beat.  

Will the rules allow Petracca do a Cam McCarthy and walk out of his contract, sit out next season then go to next seasons draft or be picked up by another club by other means?

Hmmm, I have been reading this blog for a while now. I feel we have all just been manipulated by some Machiavellian plan by Paul Connor. The Dan Houston change of mind, Track not coming out to support his club, Oliver etc. There is all one common link to these issues…. I assume CSM read this blog - if I am correct please STOP mucking around with my club.

Edited by Magnus

 
15 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Will the rules allow Petracca do a Cam McCarthy and walk out of his contract, sit out next season then go to next seasons draft or be picked up by another club by other means?

It's not the same thing. Cam McCarthy had 1 year to go on his contract, GWS wouldn't trade him before his contract ended and he chose to sit it out. Once he was out of contract GWS were essentially forced to trade him or lose him for nothing to the preseason or national draft.

Not that I believe this whole Trac situation, if he chose to sit out next year that doesn't allow him to nominate for the preseason to the national draft next year as he's still contracted the year after, and then the year that, and so on. He'd have to sit out every season until his contract expires to walk anywhere.

5 minutes ago, boydie said:

It's not the same thing. Cam McCarthy had 1 year to go on his contract, GWS wouldn't trade him before his contract ended and he chose to sit it out. Once he was out of contract GWS were essentially forced to trade him or lose him for nothing to the preseason or national draft.

Not that I believe this whole Trac situation, if he chose to sit out next year that doesn't allow him to nominate for the preseason to the national draft next year as he's still contracted the year after, and then the year that, and so on. He'd have to sit out every season until his contract expires to walk anywhere.

Whats the case if Trac decides to officially retire but a year later changes his mind? Can he return to the game for another club? 


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