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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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If you thought Tom Scully was hated amongst Melbourne fans, imagine the response if this does eventuate.... 

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15 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

What an absolute rabble of a club we are. 

You just know things a cooked when Gary Lyon squirms whenever he's asked something.

I'm pretty [censored] at Petracca in all of this but never has a club unravelled quite like this.

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1 hour ago, Oxdee said:

The guy has 3-4 more years of good football then his brand is gone. No brand other than Jordan continues past a players retirement. 

You obviously haven't received a recorded birthday message from Warwick Capper. 

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Just now, praha said:

What an absolute rabble of a club we are. 

You just know things a cooked when Gary Lyon squirms whenever he's asked something.

I'm pretty [censored] at Petracca in all of this but never has a club unravelled quite like this.

Certainly can't remember the last time the club went through this type of experience with a current player. 

Shane Woewodin perhaps? That was pretty messy and ugly.

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20 minutes ago, Dockett 32 said:

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

We got two firsts and a second for Jackson?

 

 

Jackson was 20/21 when we traded him. Trac will be 29 next season coming off a very bad injury. I think the proposed trades are a bit optimistic.  

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31 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

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

Not sure they're entirely his, but yes.

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31 minutes ago, Brownie said:

I thought the grievance tribunal was demonland?

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2 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

This is true. And the parallels with Trac are amazing.

A few years ago my wife gave me a mug that said “World’s Greatest Husband”. It was my Norm Smith!  We had moved into a beautiful house and everything was great! 

One day I was using the Karcher to clean the stone wall in front of the house. After a while I felt tired and went inside for a rest before I’d finished. The wife said I should finish it that day because we had guests the next, and a half clean wall would look odd. She sent me back out there when I was really hurt. I continued with it until I couldn’t even hold the hose. Something was obviously wrong, so my wife called the ambulance and soon enough I was in intensive care. I’d suffered an extreme heart attack and had only 1% blood flow. 

The doctors worked on me with an emergency operation and saved my life. I was in intensive care for four days. I wasn’t allowed visitors because of Covid. 

That’s all true.

It’s only now, watching Trac, that I know what I could have done next.

While recovering I could have plotted. I didn’t like the direction of the marriage. (How could she not know that my arteries were clogged?)

In order to extricate myself from the marriage, I could give my wife one reason. I could tell my friends another. And I could tell a few stories to the neighbours as well.

There’s sure to be someone else interested in me. Maybe someone with more friends, or famous friends that would help me enjoy my life, like I deserve. Hey, maybe a rich woman. I know a couple of well connected wealthy widows who like to throw big parties. Then I could tell my dad jokes in front of a larger audience. I’d love the attention!

It would be a great way to build my brand.

Thanks Trac.

 

I’m sorry for your health issues, but this is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while. Thanks for bringing merriment to the communal wrist slitting which is this thread.

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2 minutes ago, Colm said:

Jackson was 20/21 when we traded him. Trac will be 29 next season coming off a very bad injury. I think the proposed trades are a bit optimistic.  

I don’t.

Multiple AA, Norm Smith, B&F , Premiership player  and a big contrat indicating he intends going on for a while yet.

Be quite interesting if a grievance committee found in his favour ( which seems doubtful).

I mean three first rounders in ‘this years’ draft might [censored] every other club as the last non Tassie influenced  draft for a while.

Potentially nuclear alright.

 

 


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I’d love for him to try the grievance tribunal. It would be a completely frivolous claim and he is taking on the League and the Club in doing so. They ticked off his treatment. The Drs at hospital would support the club doctors. He is getting some terribella advice from somewhere 

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11 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Certainly can't remember the last time the club went through this type of experience with a current player. 

Shane Woewodin perhaps? That was pretty messy and ugly.

Mitch Clark was messy, but this is staggering and incomprehensible.

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How much of this is being over dramatised by the media. I feel like the AFL should step in and tell them to calm down.

I find it astonishing that two entities who have spent so much time together aren’t able to get together over a coffee and cake and talk this through. Maybe that’s happened and it’s just irreparable

 

jeez

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Do other clubs deal with Scully, Hogan and Trac type debacles or just us?

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50 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

If CPs central grievance is the club's mishandling of his injury any claim would have little chance of succeeding. The AFL  ok'd the protocols followed at the time. And there is a mass of published evidence where he expressed no hard feelings about it. Add to that a mountain of communications he had with Goodwin in the weeks following...all positive, according to Goodwin.

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4 hours ago, Demonland said:

Off topic but that type of tech as it improves exponentially is going to be a massive problem in the future particularly in the political spectrum and perhaps elsewhere.

Would be quite handy right now. Club just mocks up a video of Trac's manager saying he's staying put and everyone can get back to work, which considering the profile of our fan-base could spare the Australian economy approximately $1 billion in lost productivity and related job losses. 

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All this just does more damage to the Melbourne football clubs reputation.

It’s just another chapter in ugliness which would only deter decent players in wanting to come to us.

As one commentator said the MFC has a dreadful stink about it right now.

A combination of terrible luck and poor management.

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