Just now, Gawndy the Great said:

 

It has to be a godfather offer. As Buckley said, we let others do the work and if not happy Expect Trac at preseason day 1 ready to go. 

A fine approach, except Trac has burnt his goodwill with the club to the absolute ground. 

A fractured playing group will get us nowhere next season. 

McRae has essentially just ruled Collingwood out of the race on SEN.

They simply don't have the draft capital.

 

1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

A fine approach, except Trac has burnt his goodwill with the club to the absolute ground. 

A fractured playing group will get us nowhere next season. 

Perhaps. But it has to remain a viable option or we lose all bargaining power. 

Tracs antics is all aimed at trying to weakened that hand.  

Trac will not want to waste 2025 at the Dees - He’ll be 30’at year end so will be running out of brand building oops. He may again seek a trade then, but it’ll still demand at least 2 first rounders. 

 

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

McRae has essentially just ruled Collingwood out of the race on SEN.

They simply don't have the draft capital.

 

4 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

McRae has essentially just ruled Collingwood out of the race on SEN.

They simply don't have the draft capital.

 

That's the confusing thing for me, if you want to go somewhere, surely you don't kick the hornets nest if it's not seemingly possible unless you want to be stung. 

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23 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

I don't think all of Petracca's management is staying 'silent'.

I think his player management group are not entirely happy with how things are unfolding. Not how they like to operate I suspect. 

i dont know if he is deliberately stirring things up so that it encourages us to get rid of him at what ever cost. or whether he is just that oblivious to the damage he is doing to his relationship not only with the players but with the fans. He wants to move to another club to sell more merch, well that will firstly kill any demons who have been supporting, or liking him, the new club well they may not accept him so readily as they may just see him as a money hungry recruit who could potentially abandon them as well if things dont go his way. i hope he did his sums first to see if anyone has the $'s his own or better to take him, or want him, and have the draft picks etc to get the job done. i suspect he has not really tested the market that well to see if he is saleable at the price both he and Melbourne want.

1 minute ago, demoniac said:

I think his player management group are not entirely happy with how things are unfolding. Not how they like to operate I suspect. 

Paging @goodwindees

3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Paging @goodwindees

Also paging @Chook in Perth again - his post gone too soon 😭

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45 minutes ago, Demonland said:

It would have to involve a MEGA Trade. 

You just like saying that

2 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

You just like saying that

Dish Licker mate of mine reckons he would trade Naughton for him BUT NOT Ugle Hagen!

40 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

This is the problem for us if we don't hold firm. Collingwood don't even have a first round pick to trade. Blues and Bombers both have one, and neither is high enough to be a key part of a package.

For Blues, Cripps, Weitering, TDK and Curnow from the Blues would be the only players we'd consider. Unlikely any of them are options, maybe TDK if we get lucky.

For Pies, N Daicos or DeGoey the only options. Daicos obviously impossible. DeGoey plus them somehow securing a high pick on top of him could do it, but won't happen.

For Bombers, Merrett the only one and that's unlikely. 

We need to deal with Richmond and get pick 1 or ship him off to the Gold Coast to get some high picks and a good kid. If he wants to go to Pies or Blues, then it's going to be a bad result for everyone concerned, including Christian himself. 

If this is about "brand", then Trac has just shot himself in the foot before even moving club. His reputation is being smashed. Irony is he's chasing Instagram likes or whatever bullsh*t, but he's going to have to turn off social media because he's going to cop it for years now. What a debacle this is. Lol at his management working overtime to dig their grave deeper here.

My sense this is other people around him pushing the agenda.

8 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Paging @goodwindees

Apparently Will Hayward is on the table.😉

Whilst I've no doubt there is substance to Petracca wanting out, let's not forget that the media is keen for this to run and run. And rather than confirming 'facts' from reliable sources they now confirm their own stories with each other. A veritable circle jerk.

Case in point - read something today (can't remember what but concerning Trac) where one bottom-feeding muckraker claimed that his rumor had been substantiated by a slightly more elevated muckraker in Sam Edmund. Well that settles it, must be true.

Don't trust reporters

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17 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

McRae has essentially just ruled Collingwood out of the race on SEN.

They simply don't have the draft capital.

 

Wouldn’t trust anything coming out of the mouth of those p#%cks

Maybe Trac doesn't trust the club's medical staff.

Who could blame him?

 

I really hate this influencer thing.  A bloke is on $1M/year for several years so he's in a good position to launch his life post football.  There are plenty of jobs which with his profile he could walk into in AFL land and doubtless many other things which are of some productive value to society.  But to effectively just become a stooge for promoting products and producing nothing of value is very sad.

Any unsubstantiated rumours need to be directly strictly to my inbox, not this thread 🔞

22 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

McRae has essentially just ruled Collingwood out of the race on SEN.

They simply don't have the draft capital.

Just now, Dee-tonator said:

Maybe Trac doesn't trust the club's medical staff.

Who could blame him?

I could.  Does he also not trust the docs at the hospital that missed the seriousnesss of the injury for several hours despite havig diagnostic equipment not available at a footy ground?  If so, he needs to have a quiet think.  I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't think that.  But what really annoys me is others who have blamed our docs publically and posters here who accept that line.  Sure they got it wrong but hindsight is a wonderful thiing.

52 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Double down on this club are on their knees!

Some of this should have been addressed 12-18 months 

those in the office are going to get bitten 

3 minutes ago, sue said:

I really hate this influencer thing.  A bloke is on $1M/year for several years so he's in a good position to launch his life post football.  There are plenty of jobs which with his profile he could walk into in AFL land and doubtless many other things which are of some productive value to society.  But to effectively just become a stooge for promoting products and producing nothing of value is very sad.

It's a scourge Sue, but if you're surrounded by people in that industry continually [censored] in your pocket, I'm guessing it becomes a viable option....certainly if you're vulnerable.

I, for one, will boycott Tracc's Tagliolini, or any other pasta alliteration.