2 minutes ago, 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!

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

2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Ugh pies fans are on social media already declaring trac will be theres.

Oh yeah with their amazing second round pick 🙄😂

34 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Jesus this guy gets it..

Get a room already.

😂

2 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

GenX

Except he’s a baby boomer. Speaking of babies, someone wants to have his.

 

it would be amazing in any organisation of the size of a football club if there werent divergent opinions and if high performance athletes did not have tightly tuned emotional responses. 

Sure we havent had the year we wanted, weve lost a couple of matches that we could have won with  some different umpiring decisions. Oh and we lost one of our significant players before the season due to a football act of an opposition team. Oh and then when we were still in the leading group of teams we lost one of our best players through another football act.  with the latter in the team we may have maintained our position in the top echelon of the competition.

Yeah theres some things wrong with the club , there always is but it certainly aint the end of the world and it aint any reason to gut and destroy whats not wrong. Identify it and address it.

Its all delightful material for Morris and Cornes et al who arent game to publicise the major issues at Collingwood and Essendon.

But it is time for Roffey and Pert to end the speculation. Get Trac in and laugh and smile at the speculation, point ou that our season is now ended and but we will continue to be an entertaining team to watch and support. WE are looking forward to a strong pre season and will be better next year. 

Behind the scenes we will engage with the umpiring fraternity to establish what is wrong with our tackling techniques and why we do not draw free kicks when we are tackled above the shoulders. What are we doing wrong?

Look at the herald sun website. The headline saying reports petracca open to a trade

7 minutes ago, praha said:

We have a new head of our media department and ultimately a plan to grow the brand. Unfortunately no one wants to watch us. There is a reason why we aren't going all in on youth. We can't afford to get sloshed by 100 points on FTA. 

Seriously, it is crazy that both games were Saturday night prime time. Our media relations team is doing something right. pity it's probably had the opposite effect.

No good media team should be caring about FTA coverage. Does anyone in the AFL media talk about TV ratings? No, they only talk about attendance. The Hawks have had 1 FTA game all year and their supporters are turning up in droves with the way they're playing. They need to do a poll of our supporter base and find out what our preferred day/times are and then submit that to the AFL for our fixture request/considerations. 

Tom Morris loves living in dirt  

13 minutes ago, Demonsterative said:

And he said it with respect and threw in some hope. 
 

Go figure…… 

My friend, you're talking to the wrong poster. Your mate in the cheer squad is the one throwing around words like 'moron' so who is being the more disrespectful here? 

I'm sorry if I caused any offence to you, let us both rejoice in the news that Petracca isn't happy with the direction of the club and welcome the change that's needed eh? 

 

17 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Boot studiers left all clubs not long after the 64 GF as I recall.

Our recruitment  trading has been so [censored] bad it's insane.

Corrected.  Recruitment has been pretty great actually.

And I suspect that Tom Morris Minor doesn't.

Agreed - no one can fault the recruiting. We're close to best in the league over a sustained period, and our player development is also pretty bloody good.

15 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Petracca is a great player but he is turning 29 and on $1.2m+ per year. If he leaves we will get a massive haul of picks and cap space.

The Cats lost Gary Ablett Junior and the Hawks lost Buddy and it didn't kill either of those clubs.

Dawks also farmed out Hodge, Lewis, Tom Mitchell and Isaac Smith in their twilights.

Edited August 12, 20241 yr by Fork 'em

When Barassi left Melbourne, I stayed at Melbourne. Then Barassi came back! Then Barassi left Melbourne again. I stayed at Melbourne! Then Barassi came back and we both celebrated 2021 with a passion!

thank you @DistrACTION Jackson

“Unless you are directly in contact with Petracca or Viney or Goody , no one has a clue what the issues are”

But MFC needs to put out the fire NOW

9 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Get a room already.

😂

@ middleagedemonsPA 🤣

8 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Get a room already.

😂

 

6 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Except he’s a baby boomer. Speaking of babies, someone wants to have his.

 

The only conclusion I can come to is that you're a relative of Saty. 

I'd actually genuinely love to hear an opinion of yours regarding our list, game-plan, observations on what's needed/not needed. 

Just anything really? 

Some thoughts of your own?

think tracc is just p155ed off with the ongoing saga of no permanent home and all the toing and froing with casey

come to think of it, it p155es me off too

19 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Who are Melbourne Storm?

They are a team that consistently deliver, plays finals & I've seen win 4 premierships. Goodwin could learn a lot from Craig bellamy

3 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

When Barassi left Melbourne, I stayed at Melbourne. Then Barassi came back! Then Barassi left Melbourne again. I stayed at Melbourne! Then Barassi came back and we both celebrated 2021 with a passion!

You are a true supporter my friend

13 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Oh yeah with their amazing second round pick 🙄😂

With both Daicos brothers and it almost gets done.

But if they chuck in the yank I’m barracking for someone else.

Anyone post full article please.

 

2 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

Personally I'd love her to do both! I feel like we've not heard anything of substance from her or Pert for a long time.

She could come out and say something along the lines of: "We're always looking to improve. Christian is a very passionate Melbourne person and wants us to be better, so we will listen as we always do, and we will all work together to push our club higher."

Then she can also go about the business of making that happen inside the club. 

We don't need constant updates of course, but it's important for supporters to feel heard, particularly at times like this. I feel as a whole our club has lacked authenticity for a few years, and from an outsiders perspective that comes across as something Trac values highly. It could be a win win.

I hear you.  But what if the situation is sensitive and making a public statement would make things worse for Trac or a dozen other issues we have no idea about?

 

Can you explain how we have lacked authenticity?  No idea what you mean. Do you mean transparency?

3 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

They are a team that consistently deliver, plays finals & I've seen win 4 premierships. Goodwin could learn a lot from Craig bellamy

Who's Craig Bellamy?

22 minutes ago, dpositive said:

Its all delightful material for Morris and Cornes et al who arent game to publicise the major issues at Collingwood and Essendon.

I'm going to try and be my most respectful everyone!

But here, in all its glory, is the quintessential biased Melbourne supporter. It's the constant 'we are the victim' talk. 

You are so caught up in the victimisation talk that you have clearly missed the media scrutiny put on both Collingwood during the Treloar/Stephenson fiasco a few years back And the start of this year when they were under-performing and the constant media attention on Essendon's continued woes, list and game plan issues and underperforming.

Widen that perspective my brother. 

Edited August 12, 20241 yr by middleagedemon

4 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Who's Craig Bellamy?

My vote for post of the week!!! Hahaha

Edited August 12, 20241 yr by Demonsterative

I hope goody & max get on the phone to trac and have a conversation. 

Shane Crawford was disgruntled when he was at hawthorn at one point. But stayed and had success. 

Just please stay trac