Christian Petracca

[Mel Bourne 4,387]

Whatever the result, the whole clusterfudge has given rise to:

”Brand Petracca”

A new nickname that he will wear like a heavy velvet cape (that he got at Cash Converters). 

[layzie 32,726]

29 minutes ago, Melonmonster said:

Side note 

wondering if this will unite us supporters and get us to fill the mcg more often 🤔 

More likely that the membership drops off a cliff I'm afraid.

[Demonsterative 3,016]

31 minutes ago, Melonmonster said:

Side note 

wondering if this will unite us supporters and get us to fill the mcg more often 🤔 

Can you bring your pets or alias’s to the games now? 

[Gawndy the Great 9,008]

I seriously think Trac camp is somehow working with the media outlets to bankroll some of this trash. i mean why else would they put this stuff to paper. Even the Kozzy stuff has gone quiet after people realized it was horse****.

[Young Angus 685]

1 hour ago, BDA said:

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

Trac for Sam Mitchell

Edited August 30 by Young Angus

[Dee-tonator 158]

33 minutes ago, djr said:

Boy, you have painted the Melbourne Football Club as the devil with your ridiculous hyperbole. Undoubtedly, he and his family experienced trauma, but it seems they have recovered quite quickly and realised that there is a buck in it if they throw the club under the bus and put it out there that Trac wants to be traded to "a big club" to enhance his brand.  

No hyperbole in saying Trac almost lost his life. One solid tackle after he went back on could have been fatal.

No hyperbole in saying he and his family experienced severe trauma. Anyone who has experience of extreme trauma would know that to say they have "recovered quickly" is nonsense.

Note that I have not made any comment in support of Petracca's current position. Despite a multitude of rumours and innuendos, he has said nothing in public, so apart from journalistic speculation we don't know precisely what issues he has raised.

We do know that Roffey has admitted he made some "good points", whatever they may be.

In my view, both Petracca and the club will sustain serious ongoing damage unless this mess is sorted out soon.

If Roffey can't handle a crisis decisively, she is the wrong person to be leading the board.

 

 

[Clayton van Oliver 1,797]

32 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

Whatever the result, the whole clusterfudge has given rise to:

”Brand Petracca”

A new nickname that he will wear like a heavy velvet cape (that he got at Cash Converters). 

Was the thinking about this the other day. If I were an oppo player, prob even a teammate, I would start with Marlon, then move to Home, Offy, Apple, Biggy and probably land on Russell. 

[Tracforever 44]

9 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

Andy you are an absolute legend for keeping us up to date on all of this!!

[Moonshadow 17,466]

8 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

No hyperbole in saying Trac almost lost his life. One solid tackle after he went back on could have been fatal.

No hyperbole in saying he and his family experienced severe trauma. Anyone who has experience of extreme trauma would know that to say they have "recovered quickly" is nonsense.

You are neither his treating doctor nor a member of his family, therefore your comments are emotional hyperbole

Edited August 30 by Moonshadow

[Deecisive 1,709]

36 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

No hyperbole in saying Trac almost lost his life. One solid tackle after he went back on could have been fatal.

No hyperbole in saying he and his family experienced severe trauma. Anyone who has experience of extreme trauma would know that to say they have "recovered quickly" is nonsense.

Note that I have not made any comment in support of Petracca's current position. Despite a multitude of rumours and innuendos, he has said nothing in public, so apart from journalistic speculation we don't know precisely what issues he has raised.

We do know that Roffey has admitted he made some "good points", whatever they may be.

In my view, both Petracca and the club will sustain serious ongoing damage unless this mess is sorted out soon.

If Roffey can't handle a crisis decisively, she is the wrong person to be leading the board.

 

 

he was traumatised so much by it that he wants to join the side that did it to him. I am not sure i buy that excuse. He may see our finals window closing down and wants to jump ship. to make sure he is essentially sinking the ship to make sure he gets off. as for CEO, i really dont know what everyone expects her to do. every person is different in the way they work and react. there is nothing to say she was not being constantly updated on Petracca and telling everyone to do everything they can. the fact she was not as social as Petracca and others think she should be does not mean she did anything wrong. in fact i am not sure other than letting him go back on that i have heard anything that anyone beside petracca has done anything wrong.

 

[demonzz 109]

On 29/08/2024 at 09:18, DubDee said:

If it's Trac's secret mission to destroy the club and everything we've done over the past 10 years, he is doing an excellent job

There is zero chance anyone will want to be traded to us this off-season. So good luck to the club improving our list.

Either stay or [censored] off

I agree brother, he has already cost us Houston from all reports and will he ever be the same player,  where would.d we be if Moore hadn't taken out. Get the picks and move on I say.

[Queanbeyan Demon 6,694]

Can we please subpoena the phone records of all interested parties since the assault on Trac's life and determine who called who when? Second, ask for the phone tap records from ASIO.

 

[Dee-tonator 158]

3 minutes ago, Deecisive said:

he was traumatised so much by it that he wants to join the side that did it to him.

 

Many of the posters in this thread appear to have little understanding of the effects of severe trauma, which can be lifelong.

Suggested reading:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/trauma/effects-of-trauma/

[danielE288 774]

Kingy has lost the plot, honestly.

[Roost it far 7,358]

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

Whatever

[djr 1,307]

43 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

No hyperbole in saying Trac almost lost his life. One solid tackle after he went back on could have been fatal.

No hyperbole in saying he and his family experienced severe trauma. Anyone who has experience of extreme trauma would know that to say they have "recovered quickly" is nonsense.

Note that I have not made any comment in support of Petracca's current position. Despite a multitude of rumours and innuendos, he has said nothing in public, so apart from journalistic speculation we don't know precisely what issues he has raised.

We do know that Roffey has admitted he made some "good points", whatever they may be.

In my view, both Petracca and the club will sustain serious ongoing damage unless this mess is sorted out soon.

If Roffey can't handle a crisis decisively, she is the wrong person to be leading the board.

 

 

No hyperbole you reckon. How the frickin hell do you know whether he could have died on the field? Do you have medical knowledge? Of course not.

[Roost it far 7,358]

I’m still wondering out of Silvagni and Kemp who gets number 5?

[waynewussell 4,842]

13 minutes ago, demonzz said:

I agree brother, he has already cost us Houston from all reports and will he ever be the same player,  where would.d we be if Moore hadn't taken out. Get the picks and move on I say.

Houston was always staying put!

[daisycutter 29,291]

1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

It’s good to have a belly laugh after this hard week 

quality journalism

[Dee-tonator 158]

7 minutes ago, djr said:

No hyperbole you reckon. How the frickin hell do you know whether he could have died on the field? Do you have medical knowledge? Of course not.

Here are some facts.

Spleen trauma is graded from 1 to 5 in increasing order of severity.

Petracca had a grade 5 spleen injury.

Grade 1 is less than 10% of surface area involved in hematoma or capsule laceration less than 1 cm.

Grade 2 is hematoma 10 to 50% of surface or capsule laceration 1 to 3 cm in depth.

Grade 3 is hematoma of more than 50% of the subcapsular surface area or if the hematoma is known to be expanding over time, if the hematoma has ruptured, intraparenchymal hematoma either more than 5 cm or known to be expanding, or capsule laceration more than 3 cm in depth and/or involving a trabecular blood vessel.

Grade 4 is a laceration involving a hilar or segmental blood vessel if there is partial devascularization or if it is more than 25% of the spleen.

Grade 5 is either a shattered spleen or complete devascularization of the entire spleen.

[picket fence 16,631]

2 hours ago, Deecisive said:

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.

I dont care if he insisted on going back on, the medicos should have pulled rank

[waynewussell 4,842]

The biggest threat to MFC Culture is coming from outside the club. It is nurtured by supporters who willingly buy in to the Media narrative. Tom Morris went as far as to call for our President's resignation on the back of his premise that she had not spoken to Christian since the injury. We know now, from Christian's own recollection on July 1st, that this premise was not the case. Do you expect Morris to acknowledge that he jumped to a conclusion?

[Flowergirl 422]

2 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

The biggest threat to MFC Culture is coming from outside the club. It is nurtured by supporters who willingly buy in to the Media narrative. Tom Morris went as far as to call for our President's resignation on the back of his premise that she had not spoken to Christian since the injury. We know now, from Christian's own recollection on July 1st, that this premise was not the case. Do you expect Morris to acknowledge that he jumped to a conclusion?

Everyone should be posting that video on his and Sam McClure's twitter. 

Here is the link: 

 

Edited August 30 by Flowergirl

[Tracca 781]

26 minutes ago, demonzz said:

I agree brother, he has already cost us Houston from all reports and will he ever be the same player,  where would.d we be if Moore hadn't taken out. Get the picks and move on I say.

houston said himself he was never leaving. 

[Flowergirl 422]

4 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

Here are some facts.

Spleen trauma is graded from 1 to 5 in increasing order of severity.

Petracca had a grade 5 spleen injury.

Grade 1 is less than 10% of surface area involved in hematoma or capsule laceration less than 1 cm.

Grade 2 is hematoma 10 to 50% of surface or capsule laceration 1 to 3 cm in depth.

Grade 3 is hematoma of more than 50% of the subcapsular surface area or if the hematoma is known to be expanding over time, if the hematoma has ruptured, intraparenchymal hematoma either more than 5 cm or known to be expanding, or capsule laceration more than 3 cm in depth and/or involving a trabecular blood vessel.

Grade 4 is a laceration involving a hilar or segmental blood vessel if there is partial devascularization or if it is more than 25% of the spleen.

Grade 5 is either a shattered spleen or complete devascularization of the entire spleen.

Can everyone please stop questioning the severity of his injury. It was severe and he has very right to be traumatized. 

It is wrong that someone from his camp is leaking and I agree this is the worst possible way he could have sought a trade, but let's leave the severity of his injury alone. It's pretty well reported it was severe.