1 minute ago, Oxdee said:

The management of the club should have prevented the best player from getting disgruntled and walking out on the club. How is this not their fault? 

see my previous posts 

This is on Trac. All other stars signed up long term

 

 

if the unthinkable happens and CP gets traded, then is has to be for a AAA midfielder as a minimum.

we dont need any forwards, we need the best midfield.

all MFC have to do is not **** this up, and MFC dont have to do anything as a baseline .. so lets hope.

7 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

Pert , Richo, Goodwin should resgn after publicly saying his staying , if this happens club can shove it , Question trac selfish ditching his mates as all the other leaders are committed 

So, even if they knew for certain he was leaving, you would have them say something other than they said.  I wouldn't put you in charge of negotiating the puchase of a lettuce.

1 minute ago, BDA said:

I'm surprised with posters taking Trac's side against the club. No player is bigger than our club.

Great player and gave his all on the pitch. we can't fault his effort in that regard.

He's been through a tough time with the injury but i have to say, it comes across like he's the first player to ever experience a bad injury. His body language hasn't been great this season. He's made stupid comments in the past about us not making enough noise.

He's made a right mess of this. Why sign a 7 year contract if you want to opt out at the first sign of trouble for the club?

Trac isn't invested in our club so best we do our best to facilitate a trade. Love bomb McKay i say and try to convince him to switch. 

It's going to be awkward if a trade can't be brokered. I don't want to accept someone back into the fold that said they don't want to be with us. 

 

What a clusterf this is. Thanks Trac.

One more time for those in the back..

No player is bigger than the club.

Bye bye Trac

if he wants more Instagram followers he should just go on MAFS like every other social media wannabe 

 

2 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

“Now, this is not to say it definitely happens, of course, and it's also incorrect to say that Christian Petracca only wants to play for Carlton or Collingwood, that’s not true.

“But what does appeal to Petracca is the prospect of - if he did end up leaving - playing for a big Melbourne club, that’s a tick - with a big base and big resources.

“He wants leadership from the top office. He wants a training base – he’s never liked going out to Casey.”

 

Oh boo hoo. He liked it enough to take $7million two years ago. What lame excuses. 

1 minute ago, Oxdee said:

The management of the club should have prevented the best player from getting disgruntled and walking out on the club. How is this not their fault? 

Because you cannot stop Diva's being Diva's. 

This feels very cold and calculated. Trac 'not being himself' feels like the treatment you got from that one girlfriend/boyfrined you had in high school the moment after you got dumped.

14 minutes ago, Billy said:

If this is true l don’t want him at our club, it reeks of entitlement wanting to play in front of bigger Victorian crowd ( l would not be giving him his wish)

Trade him to an interstate club for the best deal we can get.

Oliver has been busting his guts this year to get respect back & Petracca’s not willing to forgive him? (they were best mates)

Low crowds didn’t seem to bother him when he accepted a 7 million dollar deal 

It’s weak & gutless IF TRUE

I agree. I have sympathy if this is about his injury and the trauma associated with it. But if this is just about playing to bigger crowds and cracking the sads because we put our arms around a troubled player then he can get lost. I'd much rather an in form Clarry, vines and Rivers in the midfield. If we managed to get a proper forward who could ruck then I wouldn't mind so much. This should never have gone on this long and if tracc's management had any sensibility they would have handled this way better. This makes the club look so bad and it's just not right.

Cultural problems abound 

People can try to sweep them under the carpet but if this happens many heads should roll

5 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

“Now, this is not to say it definitely happens, of course, and it's also incorrect to say that Christian Petracca only wants to play for Carlton or Collingwood, that’s not true.

“But what does appeal to Petracca is the prospect of - if he did end up leaving - playing for a big Melbourne club, that’s a tick - with a big base and big resources.

“He wants leadership from the top office. He wants a training base – he’s never liked going out to Casey.”

 

Adding further to that.

While Petracca does want out, Edmund says that the Demon understands a trade could be unrealistic given his huge trade value and the fact that he’s contracted until the end of the 2029 season.

Even though the 28-year-old may remain a Demon, Edmund says that a number of his teammates are unhappy with him and that relationships have been strained between player and club across the board.

“But he knows it's very difficult, and he knows he signed that seven-year contract a couple of years ago through to 2029. So, at the same time, he's realistic to where he sits,” Edmund said.

“More than a couple of those teammates are unhappy with him at the moment. They didn't like the trip to Noosa in particular, they were vocal about that and there’s been relationships strained across the board.”

37 minutes ago, sue said:

Exactly what was the incompetence?     Can't be the immediate dealing with the injury because they needed 2 goes at a fully equipped hospital to get it right. It can't be incompentence by not getting 60,000 to every game - lack of miracles is not incompetence. So of all the things rumoured where the club had any control, how it dealt with Clarry is the only rational possibility.   And maybe the club dealt with that well.

The rumours are that the leadership group didn’t approach him during his time off. The coaches and management should have seen this coming and prevented an escalation 

I'd love to see him in the Red and the Blue round one next year. at Casey. There's your crowd mate, your move. Trading him for unders would be a massive mistake....... And I can't see how we get value given its not a certain he even gets through a pre season. 

11 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Sam Edmund on SEN confirmed McClure’s story is true.

Cornes is urging Melbourne not to trade him as we have all the power.

Don’t you love the irony of Cornes.  He is on the record as saying he thinks long term deals are ridiculous and should never be entered (or words that affect).   Now it seems he finally sees the light and the reason why CLUBS do those deals. BTW I agree with Cornes (we hold all the cards). Club needs to channel some Kenny Rogers! 

It’s a job for the players. Who wants to stay at a toxic workplace where certain employees are held less accountable and treated more favourably than others. Unless you know all of the details, how about taking it a little easier on Trac. 

6 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

“Now, this is not to say it definitely happens, of course, and it's also incorrect to say that Christian Petracca only wants to play for Carlton or Collingwood, that’s not true.

“But what does appeal to Petracca is the prospect of - if he did end up leaving - playing for a big Melbourne club, that’s a tick - with a big base and big resources.

“He wants leadership from the top office. He wants a training base – he’s never liked going out to Casey.”

 

Does anyone have a time machine?

Should go back and get us Bontempelli.

What a sad character if true. Not what a leader should be.

6 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

“Now, this is not to say it definitely happens, of course, and it's also incorrect to say that Christian Petracca only wants to play for Carlton or Collingwood, that’s not true.

“But what does appeal to Petracca is the prospect of - if he did end up leaving - playing for a big Melbourne club, that’s a tick - with a big base and big resources.

“He wants leadership from the top office. He wants a training base – he’s never liked going out to Casey.”

 

Again, feeble garbage excuses. 

Brock McLean called..

He and the other players had a chance to help make us a big club by winning another damn premiership instead of two straight sets and now no finals.

Does he think we don’t want to be a big club too? We have one good year and we couldn’t attended and then we dish up that [censored] for the next 3 years.

Of course people are going to jump off quick right now, everyone’s [censored] 
We didn’t win a flag for 57 years, we missed a couple of generations getting on the demons bandwagons because we weren’t winning flags it’s that simple. 

Was the crying when speaking about the club all for show?

 

13 minutes ago, Older demon said:

Note the most important line in the article is " Trac wont ask for a trade for fear of further inflaming the situation"

There is tension and some bridges to repair, but if Trac doesn't formally ask to go, he stays where he is. Wasn't it a few years ago that Sam Maclure had Clarry upset with the club and heading of to Carlton (whom he barracks for). I have heard this story before.

For what it is worth a former board member told me Friday night at a club function that Trac is not himself at the moment and post trauma he is very unsettled. 

Clarry definitely met with Carlton

 

TRAC - you want a trade ?  
 

NO.  

NO 

NO 

 

would be the biggest departure since Barassi 

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by spirit of norm smith
Farrrrrrk

Please avoid placing blame on people. Thank you.

Really starting to get sick of this if he wants out then [censored] him off we don’t need another offseason full of [censored] about us he is not bigger than the club if the rumours are true then let’s get the most for him and move on 

He and the other players had a chance to help make us a big club by winning another damn premiership instead of two straight sets and now no finals.

Does he think we don’t want to be a big club too? We have one good year and we couldn’t attended and then we dish up that [censored] for the next 3 years.

Of course people are going to jump off quick right now, everyone’s [censored] 
We didn’t win a flag for 57 years, we missed a couple of generations getting on the demons bandwagons because we weren’t winning flags it’s that simple. 

Was the crying when speaking about the club all for show?

 

1 minute ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

It’s a job for the players. Who wants to stay at a toxic workplace where certain employees are held less accountable and treated more favourably than others. Unless you know all of the details, how about taking it a little easier on Trac. 

Hang on, is Trac not treated more favorably than others because he’s Trac?

This is life, in every organization you have more and less favorable people who get treated differently because of what they bring to the table. 
Of course a star player is going to get more leniency on poor behavior than some D grader. Just as if Trac was a nobody who trashed our club publicly the club would treat him with a hell of a lot less public restrain than they have so far.