45 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Aw shucks...not even a couple of pebbles? Some pea gravel? 

A sprinkling of fine Noosa sand 🏖

14 hours ago, adonski said:

 

 From the outside it seems a bizarre situation, there's no explanation of why exactly he would want to leave. Is it the injury and the way that was managed? The communication issues highlighted here? Are his issues with the playing group more than the club? Or is he just seeing the writing on the wall for our future prospects and using this as a convenient excuse to push the club to trade him?

It really doesn't add up which is frustrating for the supporters who can only go by what is in the news or what is told to them by the club. It's crazy that it's been left to fester this long and get to this stage, something is seriously wrong if we can't get one of our best players in 60 years back onside. Even if he's not traded this year the speculation will be ongoing until this is put to bed and clubs will be in his ear for the next 12 months trying to woo him leading to more distractions and destabilisation.

35 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Why Hawthorn? 

Hawthorn we could do a deal with, but isn't their first pick going to Barrass? I wouldn't actually want their future 1st as I reckon they'll do very well next year with Trac in their team.

As for Collingwood, they have nothing we would take that they would be willing to trade. Quaynor maybe, but they would have to find 2 first rounders to go with that, which seems impossible given they don't even have one

 

I don’t care where he wants to go, he goes where we get the best deal!!!

Stuff him he’s done more damage to the MFC, than the few mistakes we’ve apparently made towards him.

You’d think it was one of us that sunk the knee in.

He needs to grow up & stop acting like a spoilt brat, s#*t happens sometimes in life & it’s how you deal with it.

There’s more to it than be a brilliant footballer 

Melbourne captain Max Gawn has conceded there would be “fractures” in the Demons playing group after missing out on finals but hosed down renewed reports that superstar teammate Christian Petracca wanted out of the club.

Gawn, who has re-signed until the end of 2027, said he was in “open conversations” with Petracca and denied any suggestion the playing group was upset with him spending time in Noosa while he recovered from the car-crash-like injuries in June that forced him to spend two weeks in hospital.

But while he said everyone, including himself, was disappointed at how the season played out, mixed messages of player discontent “can circulate around” as they express their frustration.

“There’s always fractures in a team which has played finals for four years and now isn’t playing finals,” Gawn said on Monday.

“We’re pretty flat on that. At the halfway mark we were top four, that’s pretty flattening.

“My mum and dad, if they are talking to friends, would say ‘Max is pretty disappointed at the moment’ and I am. You can see how things can circulate around.”

Gawn, however, moved to shut that down and said post-season conversations would all be geared around healing any rifts and putting the club back on course for 2025.

“Obviously, the Trac stuff, I’m in open dialogue with Trac, I don’t see the build-up that has happened,” he told Triple M.

“He went away for nine, 10 weeks, four of them to Noosa. He had to spend a few weeks at home after the surgery. I’m happy he did that. I’m happy he went away and any player that is struggling with anything that’s going on, it doesn’t have to be two weeks in the ICU that Trac had, it could be a rolled ankle.

“Anyone that is struggling, more than happy to grant leave. That will all play out, there will be conversations held over the next two weeks.

“I’m pretty focused on Collingwood to be honest.

“We play Friday, then Saturday and Sunday will be a write-off, then come Monday, Tuesday, I will start talking to the board, CEO, Goody, all the players about how we make this club better and I think that’s the way to do it.”

Ignore that, already posted haha

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3 hours ago, chookrat said:

After 64 pages it looks like we have established that Tracc is frustrated about something...

LOL

Can't get his heart rate above 110bpm for months

Trac Gotta Have It!

13 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Why was it Trac's job to 'clarify it' to the players?  He probably had no idea what the players were told.   Did anyone tell him that or tell him players were frustrated?

Someone at the Club approved his trip to Noosa.  Somehow the reasons for it didn't filter down to players but presumably Richardson, Goodwin and Gawn knew.

Yet no one seems to have told the players the reasons leaving them to guess and get frustrated.  And players could have asked the captain or coach. 

If they really needed it explained to them then footy players are a lot dumber than I imagined. I mean, I know they look at anyone who reads a book as a bit "kooky" and "different" but I didn't think they were that oblivious as to think someone who suffered a significant critical injury who couldn't rehab or do any kind of strenuous activity for a while might want to get away for a couple of weeks.

I really thought Trac would be heart and soul Demons so pretty unhappy at what is playing out.

If it is stuff like social media exposure would be even more disgusted.

It appears to me the club looks after players welfare pretty well and are considerate of extenuating circumstances- see Langdon, ANB, Clarrie and Kossie.

My worry is whether Trac will ever recover his brilliance after such a devastating injury and associated mental demons.

If Trac comes out in trade week and said get me out of here how would you guys feel about him? 
 

I’d feel a little dirty towards him honestly… that’s just my feelings at the thought of it atm 

Well this thread has escalated quickly

Everything I have observed from afar with Trac is that he has been a lovely guy who always has time for fans and kids and a great teammate who despite his talent, plays for the team.  He signed up long term when he didn't have to and got us a flag.

Now after the last 48 hours he is a judas who is rude to fans, hates the club, only thinks of himself and just wants to go to a big club so he can get more followers on his insta page.

Just now, Demongirl35 said:

If Trac comes out in trade week and said get me out of here how would you guys feel about him? 
 

I’d feel a little dirty towards him honestly… that’s just my feelings at the thought of it atm 

He would be dead to me. There is no go home factor / family element about it - so for mine would become the biggest villain next to Maynard for the MFC. 
 

Id boo him with as much intensity as I would Maynard and other Filth.
 

it would completely undo his legacy he has built with the MFC. 

2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Well this thread has escalated quickly

Everything I have observed from afar with Trac is that he has been a lovely guy who always has time for fans and kids and a great teammate who despite his talent, plays for the team.  He signed up long term when he didn't have to and got us a flag.

Now after the last 48 hours he is a judas who is rude to fans, hates the club, only thinks of himself and just wants to go to a big club so he can get more followers on his insta page.

Yes, if he goes , he is Judas. 

2 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

He would be dead to me. There is no go home factor / family element about it - so for mine would become the biggest villain next to Maynard for the MFC. 
 

Id boo him with as much intensity as I would Maynard and other Filth.
 

it would completely undo his legacy he has built with the MFC. 

I would be so filthy if he left and only wanted to go to Collingwood.

I wouldn’t see this as angry at the club I would see it as the right excuse to leave for them. If you want out then you’re happy to go anywhere else. 

It’s a major concern that trac hasn’t come out to the media to quash the rumours. It’s as if he is happy with the noise persisting. 
 

4 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Yes, if he goes , he is Judas. 

Um Judas as in Iscariot1??

Go and go now :)

Get the best deal possible

It's going to be a great watching Windsor McVee Kosi JVR Petty Turner Howes Rivers Tholstrup Woey Brown AMW all start to build and build

1 hour ago, layzie said:

So perception is reality?

Fair enough. Quite a lot of the time, it is.

On point C.

Why have the meeting so publicly? You can have a private meeting, given the current noise around this whole situation. Just my POV.

1 hour ago, John Crow Batty said:

I would take a straight swap for Weddle. As good as Trac but 8 years younger. 

Would be close enough I’d say maybe we’d want a second rounder thrown in.  They also have Battle and maybe Barrass coming in so could afford to lose him. 

4 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

I agree with most of this hut playing devil’s advocate, if the AFL allow clubs to trade picks two years out, most of those clubs will be able to offer first rounders in 2024, 2025 and 2026. 

If he wants to go, Trac will put that to the club with a trade request and try to convince us that we’re better off with three first round picks than a player who doesn’t want to be here. 

And you can guarantee the media will be all about us being unreasonable if we don't accept it.

I have met trac always been polite and friendly.

I find it hard to believe teammates would be upset with Petracca spending a month at Noosa recovering from a life threatening injury as well as knowing that he won’t be able to train properly for months or play till next season. It just doesn’t make sense. I smell bull.

 

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2 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

I find it hard to believe teammates would be upset with Petracca spending a month at Noosa recovering from a life threatening injury as well as knowing that he won’t be able to train properly for months or play till next season. It just doesn’t make sense. I smell bull.

I agree, and Max has basically said as much, he's gone with the teams blessing. i feel like whoever is feeding Tom Morris information is only giving part of the story. 

2 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

I find it hard to believe teammates would be upset with Petracca spending a month at Noosa recovering from a life threatening injury as well as knowing that he won’t be able to train properly for months or play till next season. It just doesn’t make sense. I smell bull.

it’s hard to believe as it’s most probably complete nonsense 

1 minute ago, ChaserJ said:

 

Anyone able to post the article?