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4 hours ago, Colm said:

I’d love him at the club in some capacity. Talks more sense than anybody else in the media. 
 

Add on- I’d love to bring him in now to do a critically analyses of our list as a starting point. 

He'd find the skeletons I reckon.

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9 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

I agree..... but.....

It's very hard to unhear or unsee something. Someone wrote it's akin to say your partner cheating on you and then you get back together.  The TRUST is never the same.  Yes you can work through it but often flounders.

The difference in games can be just a % or two of effort, a cm here a cpl of secs there. If EVERYONE  is not on same page going in same direction....you're stuffed.

I think this was on show through our season. 

Agree, I think the next step is a change at board level.  But that's a separate discussion 

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18 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

I hope people back off the Trac hate a little after the Roffey interview today.  I have no faith that the upper management have been competent in looking out for Trac and his family after the incident.

Looks like they see it as a football issue not a club one.

Time to both bury the hatchet, say we both went about it the wrong way, and move forward

You are biased against the club sir. There’s no indication that’s true 

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9 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

I don’t completely disagree with what she said though. 

I would expect her to reach out and express her best wishes, which I’m sure he has done. To both Trac and the family. But she is not the avenue to solve this problem as much as people think.

She is in fact Trac’s bosses (Goody) bosses (Richo) bosses (Pert) boss.  In a workplace environment have you ever sat down directly to solve a major problem with the Board chair? I can guarantee that rarely happens. She wouldn’t even be on the task force to work on this issue, in fact neither should Pert unless Richo and Goody are completely incapable at fixing this.

Once you apply a corporate lens, (on reflection as my immediate reaction was to crucify her) I’m not really surprised to what she is saying.

 

Yess but if I get injured at work I'd expect my boss to be in regular contact with me. 

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2 minutes ago, Watson11 said:

His contract is with us.  Nothing to do with any other club. 

It’s different with Grundy who had a contract with the pies and could have remained, played VFL, and been paid his large salary still. The pies wanted him out and off their books, we were only prepared to pay less, so the Pies paid part of his salary.  

In Traccs case, if he wants out of his contract, he needs to negotiate with any club that wants him and no guarantee they are prepared to pay his current salary. 

The media’s understanding of basic contract law is ridiculously shallow. 

I don’t believe any other club will take on his current contract as it stands and very few have the capacity to do so. If he insists on joining a premium club he will have to take a financial haircut and shortened contract with lots of fine print added to address his unresolved injury concerns,

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2 hours ago, Salems Lot said:

From memory Jesse Hogan's and Tom Scully's threads are the only ones to rival the growth in this one.  I go away for a day and it has grown by another 20 pages!

Don't forget these days the admins are tighter with what is allowed to be posted in the forum (due to legal reasons) so that would affect the number of posts in here - imagine how many post there would be if everyone could post what they really thought!!! 😜

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8 minutes ago, Watson11 said:

His contract is with us.  Nothing to do with any other club. 

It’s different with Grundy who had a contract with the pies and could have remained, played VFL, and been paid his large salary still. The pies wanted him out and off their books, we were only prepared to pay less, so the Pies paid part of his salary.  

In Traccs case, if he wants out of his contract, he needs to negotiate with any club that wants him and no guarantee they are prepared to pay his current salary. 

The media’s understanding of basic contract law is ridiculously shallow. 

That's my understanding of it. In fact we could sue for breach of contract. 

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3 minutes ago, von said:

You are biased against the club sir. There’s no indication that’s true 

Roffey literally said she has barely spoken to Trac or his family since his injury because they havnt been at the footy.

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1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Sounds like Gazey knows more than he letting on.

I don't know if this is re-assuring or ominous but do agree with DL, he knows more than he is letting on.

The club really need to hold ground on this, any question they get about Christian should've just been a positive response like "We love him and we agree with him on certain issues and will work to fix them". 

Instead, it looks like some people on the inside are speaking to the media and making reconciliation a lot tougher. I cringe every time I see a fan take a pop at Christian on here or Reddit, Insta or X. Calling him Judas when nothing has happened yet isn't a good way to show him and his family how much he is loved by the club.

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The media seem to be clutching at straws in regards to why he wants to leave.

Issues with the club re his injury or He wants to play in front of bigger crowds, two completely different things.

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Not very often "if ever" that  Titus O'Reily puts a serious tweet " or is that a serious X"

 
Kate Roffey was everywhere when Melbourne won a premiership despite being pretty new to the presidency. She disappeared when things got tough. That SEN interview shows Melbourne needs to change things up top.
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Now that the club president has acknowledged that she has not been in touch with Petracca's family for "a while", perhaps we have a clearer picture.

The impact of his injuries on family members, who know how close he was to death, must be causing additional trauma that is still being acutely felt as this saga rumbles on.

If the club's leader shows no interest in personally supporting the family, all the media chatter about a "toxic culture" might just have  some basis in fact.

Kate Roffey could clear the air immediately, simply by revealing Petracca's principal concerns and any steps being taken by the board to address them.

What is being hidden, and why?

 

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How many presidents (of organisations/companies) or CEO's contact general staff for injury, trauma, we'll being etc.  I've gone through a traumatic ordeal in the last couple of years far far greater than what he's been through and only my boss reached out to provide support.  

And by boss I mean direct manager, and their boss; not the top tier executive!

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8 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

Roffey literally said she has barely spoken to Trac or his family since his injury because they havnt been at the footy.

I’d say the footy dept would have comms but far out knowing the severity of his injuries would you not, its relationship 101 stuff! 

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5 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

Now that the club president has acknowledged that she has not been in touch with Petracca's family for "a while", perhaps we have a clearer picture.

The impact of his injuries on family members, who know how close he was to death, must be causing additional trauma that is still being acutely felt as this saga rumbles on.

If the club's leader shows no interest in personally supporting the family, all the media chatter about a "toxic culture" might just have  some basis in fact.

Kate Roffey could clear the air immediately, simply by revealing Petracca's principal concerns and any steps being taken by the board to address them.

What is being hidden, and why?

 

If the people who work closest with Trac day in day out were in touch during that time then I'd be happy with that.

Now if we find that wasn't good enough then fine, but having the President and every Tom, Fred and bootstudder in his face during that time was not necessary. 

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We don't  know a lot..  emph KNOW

Much of what we are surmising is by joining dots and their faint ones at that, one might even say feint too. What is interesting to me are not only things that are supposedly said but also the lack of proof to the contrary and or denials..

Very easy to knock a lot of this on the head. Bang... and we get on with things. It's not going that way. Many being very very cagey. Almost all other players walking in lockstep.  There's that much secret squirrel bs going on it's palpable. 

This debacle is sponsored by 'Can-o-worms' 

 

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9 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

Not very often "if ever" that  Titus O'Reily puts a serious tweet " or is that a serious X"

 
Kate Roffey was everywhere when Melbourne won a premiership despite being pretty new to the presidency. She disappeared when things got tough. That SEN interview shows Melbourne needs to change things up top.

He often Nails it...   no exception here !!

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49 minutes ago, Royal Demon said:

You bring up and interesting point that could potentially be taken one step further. I'm not suggesting that this is the case with this situation but there is also the potential that potential suitors could promise certain 3rd party endorsement deals this way. The AFL need to be looking into new media and influencer deals very carefully in the future.

This could be very easily gamed:

Come to us, we'll help set you up with a social media profile which our members (and broader supporters) will help support (subscribe to). 

If each member subscribed at $10 a year that can easily translate to over a million dollars; note with more subscribers the advertising dollars increase exponentially.  In the future you'd only want to play for the Pies, Tigers and Eagles!!!

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6 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

I’d say the footy dept would have comms but far out knowing the severity of his injuries would you not, its relationship 101 stuff! 

Yup, so the President shouldn't be keeping in touch and supporting.   That workplace 101 stuff

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1 hour ago, Demonsone said:

I’d say the footy dept would have comms but far out knowing the severity of his injuries would you not, its relationship 101 stuff! 

Agreed.

Its also about showing humanity and compassion to the family of and to a hard working and dedicated servant of the club, at a time when they were enduring unimaginable horrors. 

Such behaviours 'walk the talk' of good culture and good culture should start at the top. 

Respect begets respect.

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7 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

Gee the 10yr premiership reunion is going to be a dooozie; better get e ticket now.

And of course the big ticket in town this Sunday is the good old Ringwood RSL (3.30pm)  where what's his name is gonna speak

But will he speak?  Will the words be leaked to the proprietor and then said? 

All will possibly be revealed Sunday.  Stay tuned

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24 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

Yess but if I get injured at work I'd expect my boss to be in regular contact with me. 

Yes that’s on Goody and to an extent Richo if that hasn’t actually been the case.  I thing to do with Pert or Roffey to be honest. 

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22 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

Roffey literally said she has barely spoken to Trac or his family since his injury because they havnt been at the footy.

Trac - please forgive us 💔💔💔💔💔

Roffey does not represent us. Not meeting or speaking with you is a lack of duty of care.  It’s not in her position description.  It’s in her values and integrity.  
 

We love Trac and this has exposed the leadership at the club.  

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