Christian Petracca

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1 minute ago, mo64 said:

He did his ACL in his 1st preseason. That's adversity in my books.

But it’s still professional sportsperson adversity which I’d say is completely different from the adversity a regular pleb faces. 
 

he’s been a sporting golden child since his early teens, maybe his perspective is a little off

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12 minutes ago, Supermercado said:

It wouldn't be hard to choose between permanent inner-city (or close to it) facilities or regular trips to Cranbourne but it's not like he thought we were leaving Casey when he signed the contract so it would be an interesting excuse if true.

In fairness the club has been trying to convince all of us that new facilities are just around the corner for years.

Edited August 26 by KozzyCan

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I am absolutely floored by this whole situation. WTF

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1 minute ago, reynolds46 said:

Normally I would agree with you but after waiting 50 years for a premiership I thought that I will always have that memory but even that will now be tarnished forever if he leaves the club in this insidious manner

Shouldn't.

It's a team sport, we won that as a TEAM.

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4 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Be interesting to time up the travel time from Tracc’s place in an inner south east suburb to Carlton 4 days a week (35-60 minutes), vs to Gosch’s 2 days (15-25 mins) and Casey 2 days (45-1hr).

Net result would be negligible. 

 

He's on a very good money. He can just buy another home or rent near Carlton and move back at the end of his career. Money can't buy happiness but problems like that disappear when you have money.

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Don’t really care now 

MFC, get it done and let’s realllyyyy build!!

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1 hour ago, ElDiablo14 said:

The Oliver thing?

Got to be kidding, did he expected the club to trade the other 7 year - 1 million player basically for a bag of chips? How inept would the club be to do that?

Im not saying its a reasonable position at all but Im starting to think trade them both and rebuild around Windor.

But the Casey thing and the wanting to play in front of bigger crowds thing are perfect public relations. The accident even might have given a reliable out as well. 

 

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1 minute ago, mo64 said:

Que? Houston would want to come to a contending club. We aren't contending without Trac.

But with McKay, Cerra and Carlton's first, which we could give to Port for Houston along with a second. Bang - contenders.

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I really miss Angus Brayshaw in moments like this. All I keep thinking about is that interview with Gary Lyon post premiership where he was saying, “This is our club”..

😔

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It’s been a wild journey the last few weeks. We’re all searching for clarity and the media has gotten us in a panic.

I am straight up not having a good time in this thread aha 

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If he wants to go then let him leave.

It will hurt seeing him play elsewhere, but he will always be a premiership hero to me.

Interesting that he mentioned Casey as a side problem to the bigger issues going on. Once again we pay for being a smaller club.

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1 minute ago, watchtheeyes said:

I really miss Angus Brayshaw in moments like this. All I keep thinking about is that interview with Gary Lyon post premiership where he was saying, “This is our club”..

😔

Our club! 

Were Petraccas tears just crocodile tears?

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2 minutes ago, reynolds46 said:

Normally I would agree with you but after waiting 50 years for a premiership I thought that I will always have that memory but even that will now be tarnished forever if he leaves the club in this insidious manner

Kinda get it..

Here's my context.   He was part of a team. I see it as a Team's triumph.  

We, the MFC, are bigger than any player.

I'm really not fussed what he does. He helped us in 21. He's more than welcome to contribute...again.   He's but one.

He only tarnishes himself.  The Cup won't ;)

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1 hour ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

So basically after being the player that made certain we won our first premiership in a lifetime he is leaving due to our unprofessionalism. That is so MFC.

No one player alone can be credited with winning a premiership.

He isn’t leaving due to what you perceive to be our unprofessionalism. 

Edited August 26 by WalkingCivilWar

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1 hour ago, layzie said:

So you reckon MFC are done with Trac and are now focused on getting the best deal THBT?

Yes.

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Petracca's health and well-being issues lowers his value.  He's damaged goods who can't have his heart rate above 100 (for how long) 

A full pre-season?  Not going to happen

Right now, he can't even do any light running

Will he pass a medical within the next 2 months? (the trade period ends on Oct 16th) Highly doubtful

In my view we're not going to get Carlton's first round pick + McKay.  It will be a virtual straight swap

Wouldn't hurt to throw in an ambit claim of course

That's all things considered (keeping it real) 

Not a fire sale but what club would want to take on all his issues?  That's the other side of the story

Edited August 26 by Macca

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On 12/08/2024 at 21:12, waynewussell said:

This is what will happen next…

1 The club will say nothing to be seen here, move along.

2 Christian will indicate that he has had a difficult time of it, and initially he and his family were disgruntled with the way things were handled.

2 Christian will say that these issues have been discussed with the club and all is good!

3 Christian will say he loves the club and he wants to be a one club player

4 The club will release a statement that emphasizes that Christian is a required player and respected leader of the group, who has been earmarked as a future captain.

5 Tom Morris will serve up a grab that reiterates that Christian Petracca would leave the club if he wanted to, but at this stage he doesn’t want to!

 

On 12/08/2024 at 21:19, WalkingCivilWar said:

6. The regular group of misery-guts on DL will…

Oh yeah hows this working for you both?

Funny how you've completely turned on Petracca WCW. Stating he's a 'Diva' because supposedly he wants to play in big crowds..

Bit hypocritical considering you're the first to smash anyone on here that says anything remotely negative about any player and here you are throwing shade at him. The guy suffering mental health and you're calling him a Diva.. classy.

Maybe Tom Morris was right all along eh?

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As distasteful as it may be to Christian, he may have to go off-Broadway to the Gold Coast. 

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If Trac is truly the way it seems, I can’t imagine him wanting to play second fiddle to Cripps.

 

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13 minutes ago, sue said:

You've taken a vote/poll?  Even if true, it  would just speak to the immaturity of football supporters when it comes to things about their club.  Too much emotion clouds judgement, and since there is almost nothing to say why anyone supports one team over another, emotion has to be the main factor.  ( I support Melbourne because my footy-ignorant mother thought Geelong and C'wood looked like prison stripes and red and blue looked nice. Doesn't stop me from being one-eyed, moaning about umpires, bad treatment by the AFL/MRO, you name it.)

Christian was all in on the dees. Signed on to be a player for life. The club have dropped the ball to let this happen. Pure incompetence 

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7 minutes ago, BAMF said:

If he wants to go then let him leave.

It will hurt seeing him play elsewhere, but he will always be a premiership hero to me.

Interesting that he mentioned Casey as a side problem to the bigger issues going on. Once again we pay for being a smaller club.

Where has he said this stuff? I don't have time to read the entire thread...

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17 minutes ago, Demonsterative said:

LDU and pick 2? Any takers?

Take

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9 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

McKay took a pay cut, because Carlton extended Curnow first. My guess is 900k.

We might have to pay McKay a bit more to get him to play with us

I'm assuming that Petracca has played his last game for us so have switched to full-on trade mode

No time for sentiment, get a deal done*

 

*A lot of deals are done 'in principle' before the trade period (IMV) 

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My take,

• Having a player play for you if he doesn't want to be there, will never work out. 
• An injury such as this may never be overcome, both from a physical and mental sense. 
• The excuses to play as part of a bigger Vic club...I know there are bigger clubs than the MFC, but only one club, who is in the window plays basically all their home games at the MCG, and thats Collingwood. Bombers and Blues are still tied to Marvel, Richmond isn't in the window, and the Hawks don't fit the profile do they?  
• If a deal with McKay does eventuate, please can the footy dept double check we don't get scammed with Ben! :D

 

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If it is to be this year, the only saving grace is that there's no way he could get to the Pies. That would be completely unacceptable.