PRESEASON TRAINING: Friday 15th November 2024

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I don’t know if Clayton Oliver spends any time thinking about ‘Brand Oliver’, but his off season should be studied in the curriculum of anyone entering into sports management and online promotions.

I feel nothing but love for Clarry after he has had a very similar offseason to a teammate who is very conscious of his brand off the field.  
 

Two players, both explored their options… one has come back, an absolute darling, the other’s standing is  (imho) sadly tainted.

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42 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

I don’t know if Clayton Oliver spends any time thinking about ‘Brand Oliver’, but his off season should be studied in the curriculum of anyone entering into sports management and online promotions.

I feel nothing but love for Clarry after he has had a very similar offseason to a teammate who is very conscious of his brand off the field.  
 

Two players, both explored their options… one has come back, an absolute darling, the other’s standing is  (imho) sadly tainted.

If this is some sort of veiled dig at Trac personally I think that’s out of line 

Have you not seen any of the vision of Trac working super hard to get as fit as he possibly can be for 2025? 
 

Trac is not due to be back yet just like a dozen other senior players that are not training atm - Clayton looks a lot less physically ready than Trac imho so it’s great he recognises that and wants (and frankly needs) to start asap

Whatever our personal views are of off field events in the off season I think it’s time everyone puts that all behind us and focus on being the best the club can be - that’s of course what we expect of our playing group so as supporters we should too 

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Glad to see Christian is healthy and training hard and I hope he has a great year.  I honestly wish him only the best.

There’s no logic to barracking for a football team; logic collapses immediately when we ask ourselves why we do what we do.  We cheer kids kicking a ball around a field…. It’s absurd.

The fact of the matter is, if Petracca had what he wanted, he’d be at AIA and not Gosch’s.  
That hurts the heart, even if my head can understand it.   And, in footy, the heart trumps the head every time.

I’d love to go bananas every time Petracca gets his hands on the ball next year but, truth be told, my heart has checked out on him.

That’s 100% personal and, in all honestly, I’d hate to change anyone’s mind on the topic, but I’ve kinda checked out in him.  Which is sad - he’s been a favourite of mine.  But the love has gone for now.

 

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8 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Glad to see Christian is healthy and training hard and I hope he has a great year.  I honestly wish him only the best.

There’s no logic to barracking for a football team; logic collapses immediately when we ask ourselves why we do what we do.  We cheer kids kicking a ball around a field…. It’s absurd.

The fact of the matter is, if Petracca had what he wanted, he’d be at AIA and not Gosch’s.  
That hurts the heart, even if my head can understand it.   And, in footy, the heart trumps the head every time.

I’d love to go bananas every time Petracca gets his hands on the ball next year but, truth be told, my heart has checked out on him.

That’s 100% personal and, in all honestly, I’d hate to change anyone’s mind on the topic, but I’ve kinda checked out in him.  Which is sad - he’s been a favourite of mine.  But the love has gone for now.

 

It seems some hard decisions and hard conversations were needed - maybe he was the catalyst for that happening 

If it makes us a better team then good on him 

The only real fact that I know is that he remains arguably our best footballer and if we really want to have success we should all put our feelings and speculation away and get behind the team including Trac