Christian Petracca

[Demonland 70,246]

 

[Katrina Dee Fan 2,734]

4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

At last some common sense.

 

 

[old55 22,766]

2 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

From the Shun (no; it's in my local coffee shop)

 

Phil Davis is a very thoughtful commentator. He said this on his weekly spot on Whately.

FWIW I agree with his position.

In addition I think there's no guarantee that Petracca will be playing for MFC is 2025. There's water to flow under that bridge IMO.

[Watson11 2,210]

1 hour ago, binman said:

Yep, 100% convinced.

But whether it came from tracc, or from another MFC employee my point remains the same - whilst that narrative may have some veracity, in sorting the wheat from the chaff,  people would do well to also consider the agreed facts, such as those that i noted, rather than just swallowing the Morris narrative whole.

None of your logic around this makes any sense at all. What are the agreed facts.  I think what you have decided is a fact and what is actually a fact are two very different things.

The point is absolutely not the same irrespective of what source the story came from.  According to Morris and Barrett we have leakers inside the club.  That is confirmed as they named sources inside Melbourne as the origin of some of the stories about Tracc.  Have you considered that when sources inside Melbourne leak confidential information (Traccs brand stuff, ANB leaving etc), these sources are actually dishonest and unethical individuals, and therefore you cannot trust what they say.  Morris may be printing what they say, but fundamentally he is printing stuff leaked from dishonest people.

[MrFreeze 1,854]

1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

What is with people who think the media just attacks us? 

Never implied they did, I just don't give a stuff about any other club than ours. 

Edited 1 hour ago by MrFreeze

[Deepfreeze 208]

I can see Morris (minor), Barrett et al.........

"Shock development. Petracca fails to turn up to B&F!!!!!"

 

[sue 9,003]

19 minutes ago, Deepfreeze said:

I can see Morris (minor), Barrett et al.........

"Shock development. Petracca fails to turn up to B&F!!!!!"

 

or "Typical of MFC culture.  While Christain is pushing his body hard at a training camp, the rest of the players are drinking at a B&F party".

[Sir Why You Little 36,589]

From the Moment Gary Pert said on Radio last year that

“The Melbourne Football Club has the best Culture i have seen in 40 years”

the Media were always going to go hard on us. That’s the way it works. 
 

you reap what you sow 

[Lucifers Hero 38,948]

3 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

From the Shun (no; it's in my local coffee shop)

 

Good to see that, Tim.  Thanks.  My two cents worth.

Two assumptions by him are presented as facts:

• the club made the call whereas it is clear it was a mutual decision with full involvement of medical/fitness teams inside and outside the club.  Duty of care says they couldn't afford to put him at risk if his body wasn't ready for the camp.
• the club wants to protect players.  Maybe Davis doesn't know Trac addressed players, was happily interacting with them at training and was with them for our last game.  It doesn't make sense that they suddenly need to be 'protected' from him !!! 

imv there are more plausible reasons for the club agreeing/encouraging Trac to skip the BnF:

• The stated reason by the club and Trac to get him ready for day one of the preseason.  
• As many DL's have said to protect Trac from fans inundating him with support or criticism.  His mental health needs to be a consideration in exposing him to the public.
• The media would turn the bluey into a circus if Trac attended.   By not attending the focus is on the worthy award winners and the very worthy past demons in whose honour the awards are named.

Davis is usually a good commentator but that is not his finest hour.

 

Edited 13 minutes ago by Lucifers Hero

[spirit of norm smith 15,079]

Damo the 💩💩💩

 

IF ...

Brand Petracca has hated the criticism directed its way in recent weeks ...

THEN ...

choosing, again, to place Brand Petracca ahead of Demon Petracca certainly won't make the criticism disappear. This time he's off to an overseas training camp run by an energy drink company private sponsor, and will miss the Dees' best and fairest count. Once again, I am aware and respectful of the severe mental and physical damage he has suffered this season. But I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have missed the B&F if he was a chance to win it. And he could've made the arrangements to leave for the energy drink private sponsor engagement the day after the function.

[Demon17 5,045]

1 hour ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

At last some common sense.

 

 

And from Schwarter too! Amazing and positive

[Lucifers Hero 38,948]

16 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Damo the 💩💩💩

 

IF ...

Brand Petracca has hated the criticism directed its way in recent weeks ...

THEN ...

choosing, again, to place Brand Petracca ahead of Demon Petracca certainly won't make the criticism disappear. This time he's off to an overseas training camp run by an energy drink company private sponsor, and will miss the Dees' best and fairest count. Once again, I am aware and respectful of the severe mental and physical damage he has suffered this season. But I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have missed the B&F if he was a chance to win it. And he could've made the arrangements to leave for the energy drink private sponsor engagement the day after the function.

Sometimes I wonder if he reads what he writes or if he ever heard the word 'logic'.

If Trac was a chance to win or even place of course he would be there!  Logically, that means he would have played the whole season so wouldn't need to rebuild his body for day one of the preseason. 

And, surely, there isn't only one camp ... if he was fit he could go to the BnF and head to a later camp in the off season as he has in other years.  

Edited 1 minute ago by Lucifers Hero