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18 hours ago, 1858 said:

At some point the AFL will send out the memo to the media outlets to STFU about all this stuff as it is detracting from finals.

100% - it's ok for the dead week between the news cycles of end of season and finals anticipation...

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7 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

That he can make around $350K through paid ig posts and that changing clubs likely won’t change his audience size. 

That's about it. But it takes over 4000 words to say it.  

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18 minutes ago, Sydee said:

What’s its say I’m not paying for their trash 😂

The frustration among Demons fans and the club could best be summed up by an exasperated supporter replying to one of Petracca’s cooking videos on Instagram: “All this turmoil going on with the Dees, but thank f--- we’ve got a Crispy Rice Paper Pork & Veggie Dumplings recipe!”

The longer Petracca does not speak publicly, the more room there is for rumour and innuendo to fill the vacuum. The theory Petracca wants out of Melbourne for Carlton or Collingwood so he can grow his personal brand has grown legs.

Fans can begrudgingly cop their stars leaving for more money or on-field opportunities – it’s common – but doing so for more social media followers?

There is a belief held by some at the Demons, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, that the club’s issues are being used by Petracca as a way to break out of the remaining five years of his contract and head to a big Victorian club, thereby increasing his public profile.

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13 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

That he can make around $350K through paid ig posts and that changing clubs likely won’t change his audience size. 

you forgot to mention the article included a recipe for black bean noodles

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Continued… 

Petracca’s representatives say his personal brand is not a factor in his decision-making. 

Leaving a club to grow one’s individual brand does not sit well among football fans, who expect their players to put the jumper first. St Kilda star turned pundit Leigh Montagna gave his assessment of the public’s change towards Petracca this week.

“It isn’t coming out well for Christian at the moment, I don’t think,” Montagna said on Triple M. “I think there’s starting to be a turn in regards to what the perception is of Christian Petracca.”

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Monetising his considerable social media following has become another professional priority for Petracca, as is his right. Pasta bakes, stir fries and salads may not be worth as much as kicks, marks and handballs to Petracca – yet – but he’ll be hanging up the boots long before he hangs up the frying pan.

Using back-of-the-envelope calculations from numbers given by experts in the influencing industry, it’s not a stretch that Petracca could earn about $500,000 a year from his culinary pursuits – well short of his $1 million-plus-a-year playing contract but not bad for a side earn.

Petracca’s 473,000 followers on Instagram are a fraction of that of cricketers David Warner (10.8 million and Steve Smith (4 million), basketballer Simmons (7 million) and F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo (9 million), but an overwhelming majority of that audience is based in Australia, and more than likely in the southern states where football thrives.

A skim through his @on.trac5 Instagram account shows 31 companies have had their brands in a paid partnership to appear on Petracca’s well-watched videos.

Natalie Giddings – the chief executive of influencer agency Hoozu, who help brands run their influencer programs – has worked with Petracca and his fiancee Bella Beischer, a lawyer who manages some of the Demons star’s non-football commercial deals.

 

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43 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

Just goes to show how gullible and stupid human beings are .

It really does, and I’m not even that old…just old enough to remember the world just before mobile phones and boy oh boy wasn’t it a nicer place. 

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Okay, I tried doing my best to defend the future of our club in a balanced manner. 

If Cristian [censored] on our club for the betterment of his brand, I will take the 'nuclear option'.

That means mining the internet and bringing up every disparaging remark ever said about 'CP5'. 

It only seems fair, if that is his chosen path out of our club, which we all pay for, including his riches. 

Like: why didn't the Saints take Cristian when he was clearly the best player in his draft year?

What's the true story about that time he reportedly ditched his teammates in New York? 

Why was he unanimously cited as the most annoying player at our club in a previous channel 7 promo? 

The above is kid's play. I have both the wherewithal and current motivation to go much deeper. 

If our club continues to get unreasonably denigrated, we should all be here to defend it. 

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15 minutes ago, Skuit said:

Okay, I tried doing my best to defend the future of our club in a balanced manner. 

If Cristian [censored] on our club for the betterment of his brand, I will take the 'nuclear option'.

That means mining the internet and bringing up every disparaging remark ever said about 'CP5'. 

It only seems fair, if that is his chosen path out of our club, which we all pay for, including his riches. 

Like: why didn't the Saints take Cristian when he was clearly the best player in his draft year?

What's the true story about that time he reportedly ditched his teammates in New York? 

Why was he unanimously cited as the most annoying player at our club in a previous channel 7 promo piece? 

The above is kid's play. I have both the wherewithal and current motivation to go much deeper. 

If our club continues to get unreasonably denigrated, we should all be here to defend it. 

 

 

 

Understand your feeling, and it is shared by most of us here, but maybe you need to hold fire until Carlton are out of the finals to see if there is an announcement from the Trac camp.

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1 minute ago, djr said:

Understand your feeling, and it is shared by most of us here, but maybe you need to hold fire until Carlton are out of the finals to see if there is an announcement from the Trac camp.

I would like Cristian Petracca to stay at our club, but this just a reminder to his camp of how many of us might be feeling right now, after drafting Christian as an immature kid and developing him as "as an individual and football player".

https://www.facebook.com/7AFL/videos/most-annoying-teammate/1009563599219450/

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He's got a premiership flag and a Norm Smith medal - he's achieved more than any player on our list since 1964. Only thing left is a Brownlow which he could get in a club that is going to be playing finals next year. We should but after this season it's not a certain like it was at the end of 2021 and 2022. 

He has set himself up for life after football, but the money he can earn from that is contigent on his brand getting maximum exposure until the day he ends his career - which it must be said, is closer to the end than the beginning. So as much as it hurts to say it,  from a "rest of his life" perspective he'd be better off playing elsewhere. 

No matter what decision he takes I would support it and would still thank him if I ever met him in person. He gave me the only thing I wanted which was a flag. 

homer simpson episode 6 GIF

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19 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

in your browser go to settings and turn off javascript for the age site domain.  voila paywall disappears

Or go to https://12ft.io and paste the link in there

If that doesn't work go to https://archive.ph - paywall content usually is available within a few hours of it being published on a site

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1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Continued… 

Petracca’s representatives say his personal brand is not a factor in his decision-making. 

 

Of course that is being said, now that blame for this situation is being aimed at his brand manager, who is very close to him.

All the journos reporting this story have said a major reason for this issue is a desire to play for a big club and improve his brand. That is not something that has just been made up by all of them.

 

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2 minutes ago, Hatchman said:

He's got a premiership flag and a Norm Smith medal - he's achieved more than any player on our list since 1964. Only thing left is a Brownlow which he could get in a club that is going to be playing finals next year. We should but after this season it's not a certain like it was at the end of 2021 and 2022. 

He has set himself up for life after football, but the money he can earn from that is contigent on his brand getting maximum exposure until the day he ends his career - which it must be said, is closer to the end than the beginning. So as much as it hurts to say it,  from a "rest of his life" perspective he'd be better off playing elsewhere. 

No matter what decision he takes I would support it and would still thank him if I ever met him in person. He gave me the only thing I wanted which was a flag. 

homer simpson episode 6 GIF

Why would you care about Christian Petracca's perspective compared to that of the Melbourne Football Club? 

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1 minute ago, Skuit said:

Why would you care about Christian Petracca's perspective compared to that of the Melbourne Football Club? 

Maybe because he’s a human who has helped us do something many of us thought we’d never see. 

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Just now, homsar said:

Maybe because he’s a human who has helped us do something many of us thought we’d never see. 

Seriously? While being being paid $1 million per season and then be willing to absolutely destroy the club for his own ends (based on speculation)? 

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Trac is at my country shack avoiding media scrutiny .

We made ravioli together and quaffed a Soave then a nice Chianti.

I’ve rolled a Jamaican cigar.

Today I’ll be teaching him gratitude, silence and how to do one’s laundry in private.

The young Jedi still has much to learn.

They grass is not always greener.

Journalists are not friends.

Loyalty is everything in business/ friendship.

Cutting an onion does not make you Marco Pierre White

Money won’t but you respect

So many lessons…….

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16 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Trac is at my country shack avoiding media scrutiny .

We made ravioli together and quaffed a Soave then a nice Chianti.

I’ve rolled a Jamaican cigar.

Today I’ll be teaching him gratitude, silence and how to do one’s laundry in private.

The young Jedi still has much to learn.

They grass is not always greener.

Journalists are not friends.

Loyalty is everything in business/ friendship.

Cutting an onion does not make you Marco Pierre White

Money won’t but you respect

So many lessons…….

 

Thank you for a sensible and somewhat lighthearted view.  This topic and DL need a fair bit of lightheartedness atm.

Hoping your young Jedi is a quick learner!  The sooner he puts on a red and blue jumper the better !!!

 

I was once told to beware the green grass ... it is probably astro turf!

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