Christian Petracca

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,631]

1 minute ago, layzie said:

Has anyone even bothered to consider the possibility that Trac has laryngitis? That was why he pulled out of the 7 interview and can't talk right now. The sign language in the exit interview got misunderstood by the club and who he was leaking to.

Yeah, maybe.  But surely he could write and have a statement released on his behalf.

[demoniac 1,295]

4 minutes ago, BDA said:

i'm assuming a late withdrawal. 

Richo to say the booking for the event was a miscommunication!

[Demonland 70,216]

15 minutes ago, OhMyDees said:

Should be a hoot! 😂 

Fixed *

* That was rough for me too. 🤮

[layzie 32,717]

1 minute ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Yeah, maybe.  But surely he could write and have a statement released on his behalf.

Damn, didn't think about ability to write 😆

[dazzledavey36 52,690]

3 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Just had a look at the facebook event page, seems a nice way to waste $49 lol

 

In the highly unlikely event THE FOOTY FEAST PANEL SHOW is to be moved to a different date due to circumstances outside of our control, no refund requests will be accepted. However, if the date is to be changed your ticket will be valid for the new date or we may offer you the chance to transfer your ticket to another one of our shows. This is at the discretion of our show manager who will cater for individual circumstances.

Yeah right.. as if this will go ahead lol

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,631]

1 minute ago, Demonland said:

Fixed *

* That was rough for me too. 🤮

Is that red blood on his hand?

[JTR 2,840]

Christian Petracca airs shock new revelation in rare interview amid AFL trade rumours

Petracca has remained silent for several weeks but now returns to the spotlight with the release of a podcast recorded on August 9 — just days before the first reports that he was disgruntled and could consider requesting a trade

(Apologies if a re-post. Far too many pages to catch up on)

[Winners at last 5,147]

It's all under control ....

 

[leave it to deever 17,445]

23 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

This is the brain child of someone extremely close to Tracc.

I'm reconsidering.

From some media reports, I understand that Trac has experienced severe psychological trauma from his injury.

Maybe he is right in being angry at how some things were handled.

That's just natural.

I'm starting to think that maybe the club should let him go if it's not it's a fair trade or better.

Again, t's all so conflicting.

[The Taciturn Demon 346]

Sorry - double post. 

Edited August 27 by The Taciturn Demon

[Demon Dynasty 17,080]

1 hour ago, gregdemon said:

Buckley    said it best on SEN  this morning . Its not the Christian Petrecca Football club.    Melbourne can sit back and let others work.        come to us with a good deal or No deal.         We hold all the cards.      Good trade  or come back with tail between the legs and grow up   

100% this but any trade would need to be great not good.

[ElDiablo14 4,903]

What are we going to tell Eddy?

😭

 

[Pennant St Dee 12,643]

13 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Did anyone mention the person ringing in to Tim and Garry (gee Garry made Tim look like a dill) and say that Petracca wants Roffey and Goodwin gone. Said he is very close to Petracca. Interesting.

Was thinking about brand Petracca - he may need to consider a brand manager because apart from letting himself get speccied on in a Colgate ad (-#cringe) he is absolutely killing his brand here - if some of the stuff being reported is true. 
 

Perhaps sponsors won’t care, perhaps they will.

The Ralph Lauren stuff is a bit cringe too - photo in his hotel room with a mirror behind him…even my cycling product reviews are a bit morw pro than that! 

John from Diamond Creek I think was his name, claimed to be very close to Trac

[At the break of Gawn 4,400]

What if we gave up pick 5 and Petracca for Nick Daicos? Who says no?

[Jaded No More 67,598]

1 minute ago, At the break of Gawn said:

What if we gave up pick 5 and Petracca for Nick Daicos? Who says no?

Collingwood. 

 

[Demonland 70,216]

4 minutes ago, JTR said:

Christian Petracca airs shock new revelation in rare interview amid AFL trade rumours

Petracca has remained silent for several weeks but now returns to the spotlight with the release of a podcast recorded on August 9 — just days before the first reports that he was disgruntled and could consider requesting a trade

(Apologies if a re-post. Far too many pages to catch up on)

 

[godees 811]

If we decide to trade him (big if as I’m still not convinced), we must throw everything at LDU next year with his free agency. Rumours that he is looking hard at the saints offer. We would come out on top if we could pull that off.

[SPC 3,475]

Just now, Demonland said:

 

Do you mean we have to listen to Weightman to get to the good stuff 😢

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,416]

12 minutes ago, 58er said:

Are you serious. Players don’t determine trades as the Club has a short list for its trade and draft selections at each seasons end. 

Leaving it up to leaving players who couldn’t care who is traded in would be a disaster. 

Please don’t entertain any thoughts of joining our footy dept any time soon or in fact NEVER. 

Are you that silly that you didn't realise I was being sarcastic? Do you shave yet? 

[Bozo 73]

1 hour ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Lever ABSOLUTELY has to be the next captain. Stoic, smart and well spoken. And able to actually predict the right thing to say. 

Langdon for mine. Lever responsible for the loss to Carlton in the final last year. Should have maintained possession with under 2 min to go.

[dazzledavey36 52,690]

Sammy Edmund this morning.

Christian Petracca

“These are the facts as we know it. He wants to leave Melbourne. He wants to play for another club. He wants it to be a big Victorian club with all the resources that sit behind that,” Edmund said.

“Over the weekend and into yesterday he made it clear to the Demons that he wants to be traded with the five years remaining on that contract worth $1 million per season.

“Melbourne remain absolutely resolute publicly and privately that he will not be traded under any circumstances.

“I can tell you Melbourne aren’t even completely clear as to what his issues are, which is incredible.

“Depending on who Petracca talks to, it’s different. If he talks to the players, his issue is with the leadership of the club and when he talks to the leadership, his issue is with the players and the off-field stuff.

“The brand side of things has always been very important to him and then there’s even some who wonder whether his relationship with Ben Simmons on the other side of the planet had something to do with it all.

“The club is so disappointed and so bemused by it all. They’re completely perplexed. They thought it would simmer down, but it’s now abundantly clear that that’s not the case.

“Some relationships with teammates are going to need repairing if he is to remain there. There’s some real frustration there.”

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6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Fixed *

* That was rough for me too. 🤮

LOL.

Telling the wife we can skip the Korean BBQ this year and take me to Ringwood on Sunday instead 😁

There better be no talk about growing up supporting the Pies nonsense, stay on safe ground and talk about Nonna's cooking with Silvagni, Cincotta, Fantasia & Cerra 😁

[layzie 32,717]

2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

 

“I can tell you Melbourne aren’t even completely clear as to what his issues are, which is incredible.

 

Faaark 

Edited August 27 by layzie

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2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Sammy Edmund this morning.

Christian Petracca

“These are the facts as we know it. He wants to leave Melbourne. He wants to play for another club. He wants it to be a big Victorian club with all the resources that sit behind that,” Edmund said.

“Over the weekend and into yesterday he made it clear to the Demons that he wants to be traded with the five years remaining on that contract worth $1 million per season.

“Melbourne remain absolutely resolute publicly and privately that he will not be traded under any circumstances.

“I can tell you Melbourne aren’t even completely clear as to what his issues are, which is incredible.

“Depending on who Petracca talks to, it’s different. If he talks to the players, his issue is with the leadership of the club and when he talks to the leadership, his issue is with the players and the off-field stuff.

“The brand side of things has always been very important to him and then there’s even some who wonder whether his relationship with Ben Simmons on the other side of the planet had something to do with it all.

“The club is so disappointed and so bemused by it all. They’re completely perplexed. They thought it would simmer down, but it’s now abundantly clear that that’s not the case.

“Some relationships with teammates are going to need repairing if he is to remain there. There’s some real frustration there.”

This is astounding. If remotely true it sounds like he’s basically lost the plot

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13 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

AFL 2024: Melbourne Demons’ Christian Petracca relives life-threatening injury as talk of trade request escalates (theage.com.au)

“It’s been really, really tough. Probably the most traumatic thing I’ve experienced in my life. The trauma of everything … it’s actually not necessarily the incident of it, it’s the aftermath of it. The surgery in general was a really traumatic experience: being awake for it, internal bleeding, wasn’t able to be put to sleep under anaesthetic. I can think of every single thing happening at that time,” Petracca said on the Howie Games podcast.

“This must have been 3am in the morning. I didn’t know at the time; I was drugged up. Bella (Petracca’s partner) came to the ICU the next day and basically said that at three in the morning … we got the number off the surgeon because he called to say you might not make it, basically. He’s in critical condition.”

Asked if there were fears he might not survive the operation, Petracca replied: “Yeah, because there was internal bleeding and everything. So (I was) in serious and critical condition. For me, it was more that, that hit home rather than the actual injury itself. I’ll be fine physically, and I’ll be able to train and get back to playing and everything. It’s just more that ... the people around you feel it more than you,” Petracca said.

“Even since then, the last six, seven weeks have been really tough on both of us. She’s been amazing for me since I first met her but just through this experience. I’ve got insomnia I feel like, to be honest, because of stuff like that. I can’t sleep because of stuff like that … I’m having to see a trauma psych to deal with what’s going on.”

Petracca said there was “a lot of stuff” he was dealing with.

“The self-doubt, the trauma, and the stress of everything. I’ve been in-and-out of hospital three or four times through emergency,” he said.

Think what you want about Trac and what he's currently doing, but be in no doubt: he has been through a level of trauma that most of us (thankfully) cannot comprehend.

Yeah it’s tough, I have been through two similar situations. Near death experiences and living in constant pain is horrible. I don’t wish them on anyone. Now usually it’s out of my mind but at times it’s tempting  to pull out the sympathy card when it suits.