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24 minutes ago, PaulRB said:

NO club is going to offer a recently seriously injured 29 year old gun player a better five year deal than he’s on now. 

There's a few who would and who have the trade capital: North, Richmond, WCE, GCS etc. Doesn't fit what he's saying he wants, but they are out there.

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3 minutes ago, Mickey said:

No way would they help him get to the club he wants. AFL have no interest seeing a star player walk out on his club without the club getting a fair return

Nor do they have any interest in the integrity of their contracts being brought into question. Nor the integrity of their medical team who signed off on our management of his injury. 

Trac might think his brand matters, but the AFL does not suffer fools who try to damage their brand. 

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11 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

it seems the longer this saga goes on the more everybody's brand is going down the toilet

tracc's advisors have certainly adopted a strange strategy to date

it's going to be a lot more than just bridges burnt ... more like carpet bombing

The whatever it takes strategy. Appears there is a very short list of high profile clubs his group wants him to go to and appear prepared if they have to, use rough house tactics and bullying to get the desired destination.

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2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Nor do they have any interest in the integrity of their contracts being brought into question. Nor the integrity of their medical team who signed off on our management of his injury. 

Trac might think his brand matters, but the AFL does not suffer fools who try to damage their brand. 

I almost want it to go this way to show Christian whose brand matters most, it would not be pretty for Brand Petracca if he went against the AFL

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He can air all his grievances at a “grievance tribunal “ but the AFL are not going to acquiesce to his demand  to only go to a big club nor would they countenance the MFC not getting the proper compensation. After all we would only be holding him to his contract if we don’t get adequate compensation. 

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Just now, pingu said:

ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!

 

Needs to be prepared to watch HIS world burn. 
Nobody is bigger than a club, let alone a whole league. 
Not to mention that nobody wants a problematic diva on their list. 
 

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Just now, Jaded No More said:

Needs to be prepared to watch HIS world burn. 
Nobody is bigger than a club, let alone a whole league. 
Not to mention that nobody wants a problematic diva on their list. 
 

The last sentence is such an obvious point.

I mean how many clubs want to spend a million bucks a year on a player that prospective teammates thinks is a diva?

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He is only gone only if we get a fair deal.

Blues Pick 11,pick 31 and future 1st?

Don's pick 8, pick 28 and future 1st?

Could be a smokey. They are a pretty big club but no finals- tracc the difference?

Blues could trade McKay to Don's.

We get the bounty from Blues for Tracc??

May well be if Blues want tracc they have to move on a big money player  for cap reasons.

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, binman said:

The last sentence is such an obvious point.

I mean how many clubs want to spend a million bucks a year on a player that prospective teammates thinks is a diva?

I am starting to think that his delusions of grandeur are going to get him into a lot of trouble. 

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

The boys on Fox Footy’s The Tackle mentioned that Trac can go to a grievance tribunal if the MFC refuses to trade him.

I thought the grievance tribunal was demonland?

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3 minutes ago, manny100 said:

He is only gone only if we get a fair deal.

Blues Pick 11,pick 31 and future 1st?

Don's pick 8, pick 28 and future 1st?

Could be a smokey. They are a pretty big club but no finals- tracc the difference?

Blues could trade McKay to Don's.

We get the bounty from Blues for Tracc??

 

 

How can any of that be considered ‘fair compensation’.

We got two firsts and a second for Jackson?

 

 

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One point that hasn’t been brought up in this thread is; If he does have a preferred destination club or clubs surely he would have been in communication with these clubs to gauge any interest in his future services. If they declined then highly unlikely he would have pulled this stunt on us. 

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2 hours ago, Superunknown said:

Gee the Schwartz interview was interesting particularly his take on the potential outcome of other matters the club is currently dealing with 

Where is this interview super?

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5 minutes ago, Dockett 32 said:

How can any of that be considered ‘fair compensation’.

We got two firsts and a second for Jackson?

 

 

Its not 

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1 hour ago, Oxdee said:

They are commentators not brand ambassadors. They’re not out there advertising Colgate and Ralph lauren 

Well I’ll give them credit for not stooping that low 

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Yes but no way Essendon would trade Caddy. Their supporters would burn Windy Hill down.

And that’s why this trade is going to be so hard to execute. Clubs will be lining up for Trac but won’t want to give up any of their assets.

If that ends up being the case then we are better off holding him to the contract and play him out at Casey.

If we cave on a mega deal we will lose on both sides as we'll then be having to curb his exploits playing with another club.

I'd much rather the former and just go to the draft and try and nail the mid seasons as well.

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The media want us to accept whatever [censored] gets offered up by one of their favourite clubs.

If it was the reverse we would be expected to pay a king's ransom. 

No more than extra recruiters for Collingwood etc.

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