Christian Petracca

[Robbie57 2,001]

As someone who does not know the ins and outs all I can say is .......how good is Max! 

 

[ElDiablo14 4,905]

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

That's the way to handle it.

President - Player now!

[ElDiablo14 4,905]

36 minutes ago, Age said:

I may be alone in my thinking here but one reason I feel that the club seems to also have continual media pile on and never ending speculation is that we fall into the 'sweet spot' for the media in terms of who we are. 

- As Trac has seemingly put it. We are not a big club. Therefore, as much as we get sick of all this going on, we do not have a big enough following to just complain enough to stop the talk and materially impact viewership/ratings etc. 

- We are small enough that if we did all boycott the Herald Sun/SEN etc, it wouldn't have anywhere near the impact of the pies of blues turning their back on them

- We are relevant enough that all the news about us is interesting to other club supporters. If this was happening at the Roos or the Suns, there wouldn't be anywhere near the same level of interest, not enough would 'care' about it to keep it going

- Lastly, the joy that people get in that the 'toffy dees' are copping it gives enough others delight to have them keep reading, this probably merges a bit with the above point

Just my thoughts...

We are the sleeping giant, they don't want the giant to wake up 😉

[spirit of norm smith 15,071]

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

Love you Max.
Our skipper. Our champion.
❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙

[spirit of norm smith 15,071]

https://tinyurl.com/yt2senjb
I’ve had some hard, honest conversations [with Christian] on where we both sit with the Melbourne Football Club." Max Gawn

[The Great Pretender 454]

1 hour ago, Sydee said:

Seems like only yesterday Dan Houston was leaving port but the media seem to have got that very wrong - does happen regularly 

Seems like only yesterday St Kilda was making a play for Houston but it appears that they failed to come up with the goods so where’s the article about the Saints dropping out of the 8 and becoming a basket case?

[The Great Pretender 454]

47 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

I honestly think there’s no point speculating a trade to Carlton. We would get massive unders as I can’t see McKay or De Koning agreeing to the trade given the turmoil surrounding the club. The only trade I can see happening is draft picks at a Gold Coast or Adelaide.

Despite Morris and McClure relishing in the negativity around Melbourne, I think it’s closer to 80% he’s staying and 20% going. I sensed some real authenticity with Gawn’s interview and if he’s accepting him back in, then the whole playing group will (such is the influence of Gawn on the players).

I assume you’re referring to the turmoil surrounding Carlton who have only beaten two teams - North and West Coast since June.

[Sir Why You Little 36,587]

8 minutes ago, The Great Pretender said:

I assume you’re referring to the turmoil surrounding Carlton who have only beaten two teams - North and West Coast since June.

I love Sam The Eagle 

He was always in favour of “Good Culture”…👍

[Mickey 4,469]

9 minutes ago, The Great Pretender said:

I assume you’re referring to the turmoil surrounding Carlton who have only beaten two teams - North and West Coast since June.

They actually haven't beaten anyone outside the bottom 3 since rnd 15. 21 June, when they knocked Geelong off

Edited August 30 by Mickey

[hoodoo breaker 72]

214 pages in and I have more questions than answers. So, it's time to unleash artificial intelligence to make sense of this whole thing. Let's start with the scene of the crime: the 4-player backslapping knees-up at Motor last week. 

Looks quite civilised really. But who's the guy in the suit? 

[Demonland 70,236]

 

[dazzledavey36 52,708]

1 minute ago, Demonland said:

 

Good lord..

[danielE288 774]

14 minutes ago, hoodoo breaker said:

214 pages in and I have more questions than answers. So, it's time to unleash artificial intelligence to make sense of this whole thing. Let's start with the scene of the crime: the 4-player backslapping knees-up at Motor last week. 

Looks quite civilised really. But who's the guy in the suit? 

Haha, I went to the only source of truth, ChatGPT, guess it's sorted.. He's staying.

 

[Clintosaurus 7,543]

5 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

None of them will want to give up anything near fair value, and their media mates will run supportive articles offering up us a bag of spuds.

[Gator 17,218]

7 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

That is probably the most delusional football story I've ever read.

They should be embarrassed uploading it.

Edited August 30 by Gator

[BDA 22,238]

5 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

This genius reckons hawthorn can get it done with pick 30, Mitch Lewis and a Future first. Laughable 

[mo64 5,477]

1 hour ago, Age said:

I may be alone in my thinking here but one reason I feel that the club seems to also have continual media pile on and never ending speculation is that we fall into the 'sweet spot' for the media in terms of who we are. 

- As Trac has seemingly put it. We are not a big club. Therefore, as much as we get sick of all this going on, we do not have a big enough following to just complain enough to stop the talk and materially impact viewership/ratings etc. 

- We are small enough that if we did all boycott the Herald Sun/SEN etc, it wouldn't have anywhere near the impact of the pies of blues turning their back on them

- We are relevant enough that all the news about us is interesting to other club supporters. If this was happening at the Roos or the Suns, there wouldn't be anywhere near the same level of interest, not enough would 'care' about it to keep it going

- Lastly, the joy that people get in that the 'toffy dees' are copping it gives enough others delight to have them keep reading, this probably merges a bit with the above point

Just my thoughts...

Disagree. Four years ago the Pies were getting piled on by the media after their fire sale of players. The Blues and Bombers constantly get piled on by the media. 

I don't read the H/S or listen to SEN, but I do know from mates who support Essendon, Carlton, Richmond and Collingwood that the talkback lines run hot on SEN when these teams are struggling on or off the field.

[Demonland 70,236]

How Fox Footy wants us to Trade for Trac

 

[Dee-tonator 158]

2 hours ago, SFebes said:

Why would anyone expect a president to contact a player anyway. 

Because he nearly lost his life while giving his all for the Melbourne Football Club, and both he and his family have clearly been severely traumatized by the event.

And because she represents the top leadership of the club.

Petracca may be "just a player" but his contribution to our first premiership in nearly 60 years will be remembered long after Ms Roffey and her fellow board members have been forgotten.

[waynewussell 4,854]

7 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

Because he nearly lost his life while giving his all for the Melbourne Football Club, and both he and his family have clearly been severely traumatized by the event.

And because she represents the top leadership of the club.

Petracca may be "just a player" but his contribution to our first premiership in nearly 60 years will be remembered long after Ms Roffey and her fellow board members have been forgotten.

All of this is now redundant because, in Christian's own words, "yeah, the support I've received has just been incredible from Roffey..." etc - Christian Petracca, July 1st

[demoncat 917]

27 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

[Deecisive 1,709]

i love Petracca and what he brought to the club, now sadly i am extremely disappointed in what he is doing to our club. First, he was the one who insisted on going back on. i agree the doctors should have stopped him, because he obviously was not fit enough to play.

Second, i did not see anything while he was on that indicated something impacted the injury he sustained when he went back on, other than possibly jogging.

Third, he got the same medical treatment that would have been given to anyone playing in that game they would have ended up at the same hospital. i would be surprised if he was sitting in emergency like any normal person for hours, i would assume he got some sort of star treatment., ahead of some other poor person still waiting in emergency.

forth the Doctors did the best they could with the equipment, information they had, etc. the fact they continue to look for hours shows how diligent they were. Its not as if you had any choice where you could go.

Fifth he says he does not like our our facilities its a long drive, no offence but you probably only drive there a couple of times a week and probably seldom in peak hour. people travel for hours at peak time. sorry but you sound a little precious with that complaint. remind me again do you do 40 hours of work each week for 48 weeks of the year for your extremely high salary.

Sixth you want to go to a bigger club for your brand - so you trash our brand so you can get out. does not really sound like a team player to me. oh, and that bigger club better be collingwood, carlton or hawthorne. so what is wrong with the West coast eagles and Richmond both have bigger support base than Carlton and Hawthorne.

Seventh the thing that really upsets me is that you are talking about the massive trauma that you have gone through, but are prepared to go and play for the club that did that to you. the club that ended your friend (or may be not your friend) career in last years finals.

i would like you to stay, but to do so you really need to do some self reflection, about sharing and caring about more than yourself.  But if we can get a decent enough deal of your value before you sort of devalued yourself slightly then we should take that trade to end this farce.

[Redleg 39,998]

28 minutes ago, BDA said:

This genius reckons hawthorn can get it done with pick 30, Mitch Lewis and a Future first. Laughable 

Not that it is happening but if it was a top 10 pick, Mitch Lewis and F1st, that could spark interest.

Bundle up the F1st with what you get for ANB and you could possibly get another top 10 from the Tigers, who would look to spread their multiple picks this year, into some next year.

That could mean we would get Mitch Lewis have 3 top 10 picks for this draft, with one of course being our existing pick 5.

That is a very strong influx of talent.

[demoniac 1,295]

Crikey Fox footy think we'll take quantity for quality.

 

[Disco InTurno 72]

42 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Nathan Kreuger and Joe Richards and they’ll even throw in a bundle of sherrins for training! How generous!

Edited August 30 by Disco InTurno