43 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

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Adelaide is growing in confidence Christian Petracca will choose them as his preferred trade destination this off-season.

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My views:

Crows can offer NOTHING to the Demons. Nothing! Dees would need 2 x 1st round picks that are top 15. Trac is a star. A match winner. Runner up B&F. He’s the type of player that can play into his 30s and be a mid/fwd weapon. Trac should think about that choice, as my view, he would be foolish to pick them or indeed foolish to leave us.

P. Dangerfield did us a favour on Friday night by providing a shining example of just that.

C.Petracca can truthfully be, and must be, positively compared with him, and that performance, at every possible negotiating moment.

Why would Trac want to live in Adelaide with his profile and his other businesses plus family in Melb, makes no sense

14, F1 and Rachele

For Trac and 23

Send 14 to the suns for Flanders

2 minutes ago, bluey said:

Comparing Petracca to Danger, That’ insane. It’s like comparing Robbie Flower to Billy Bunter.

It’s exactly who he should’ve modelled his future on. Instead he chose to be a really average home cook with an IG following, just our luck!

Edited September 21, 2025Sep 21 by Roost it far

Straight swap for nibbler???

1 minute ago, GCDee said:

14, F1 and Rachele

For Trac and 23

Send 14 to the suns for Flanders

What the hell has Rachele done? Just another big mouth. We should be going after Thilthorpe, Fogerty pick 14 and a F1 as minimum.

1 minute ago, Tom Dyson said:

Straight swap for nibbler???

No thanks Nibbler is good but not that good.

Just now, WERRIDEE said:

No thanks Nibbler is good but not that good.

Your right werridee, was just being a tad facetious.

Is there a world where we can end up with pick 6 and flanders in addition to not paying anymore of tracs contract.

Probably a little far fetched but in my mind a pretty good outcome for us?

4 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

What the hell has Rachele done? Just another big mouth. We should be going after Thilthorpe, Fogerty pick 14 and a F1 as minimum.

He would work amazing in tandem with kozzie. Replace the X factor in our forward line when Kozzie is playing midfield minutes.

Has genuine goal sense and is the type of forward half talent we lack.

11 minutes ago, GCDee said:

14, F1 and Rachele

For Trac and 23

Send 14 to the suns for Flanders

This is the one and they pay 1mill pa of Trac's contract.

18 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

Why would Trac want to live in Adelaide with his profile and his other businesses plus family in Melb, makes no sense

Turns out you can make tiktoks in Adelaide, they do have the internet. Even if it's only 3G.

And playing in a top 4 side and maybe winning some finals is bigger for your profile than a 15th place Melbourne Demons copping the Sunday games.

22 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

Why would Trac want to live in Adelaide with his profile and his other businesses plus family in Melb, makes no sense

Why wouldn't he?

7 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

This is the one and they pay 1mill pa of Trac's contract.

Your not Tim Lamb are you? Terrible idea. Rachele has a lot to prove an enigma who is a wasted talent.

1 minute ago, WERRIDEE said:

Your not Tim Lamb are you? Terrible idea. Rachele has a lot to prove an enigma who is a wasted talent.

There is a reason we are getting rid of May he's the same stay clear of him.

42 minutes ago, adonski said:

14 + F1

On trade Crom F1 for Flanders

Take P14 to the draft wouldn't be terrible

I just don’t get this. This is the kind of deal you do to sweep away a contract.

We are underselling Petracca in my opinion and bringing emotion into it. We have a contract, he is a very good player, and we have a new coach that should see both sides intrigued by the fresh challenge.

4 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

Your not Tim Lamb are you? Terrible idea. Rachele has a lot to prove an enigma who is a wasted talent.

Rachele's goal return:

2022 - 17.11

2023 - 23.25

2024 - 30.17

2025 - 27.15

After Fritta and Kozzy, he'd be comfortably our next consistently highest over that period.

He'd walk straight into our forwardline.

He's the perfect sort of player for our new King ping™, defensive half slingshot game.

If you want to play quickly, you need guys that can get it done on the ground and know where the goals are. He'd be huge.

Edited September 21, 2025Sep 21 by Adam The God

10 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Turns out you can make tiktoks in Adelaide, they do have the internet. Even if it's only 3G.

And playing in a top 4 side and maybe winning some finals is bigger for your profile than a 15th place Melbourne Demons copping the Sunday games.

Doesn't fit his profile to live in Adelaide & family, winning finals yeah straight sets exits will every familiar with!

35 minutes ago, GCDee said:

14, F1 and Rachele

For Trac and 23

Send 14 to the suns for Flanders

Would do this in a heartbeat

Just now, Adam The God said:

Rachele's goal return:

2022 - 17.11

2023 - 23.25

2024 - 30.17

2025 - 27.15

After Fritta and Kozzy, he'd be comfortably our next highest over that period.

He'd walk straight into our forwardline.

He's the perfect sort of player for our new King ping™, defensive half slingshot.

I might have to retrack that wasted talent comment. Not just for Petracca though add Thilthorpe in then you have my interest. The have no picks that would interest us so it has to be players for trac.

Edited September 21, 2025Sep 21 by WERRIDEE

Just now, WERRIDEE said:

I might have to retrack that wasted talent comment. Not just for Petracca though add Thilthorpe in then you have my interest. The have no picks that would interest us so it has to be players for trac.

6 minutes ago, demoncat said:

Would do this in a heartbeat

Underselling Petracca terrible idea.

2 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

I might have to retrack that wasted talent comment. Not just for Petracca though add Thilthorpe in then you have my interest. The have no picks that would interest us so it has to be players for track.

The pick could land us another small forward that could add to a mosquito fleet around Fritta, JVR and say Mihocek/Melksham. Players like Lachy Dovaston and/or Latrelle Sumner-Pickett.

We're not getting Thilthorpe, but we might get a Victorian who we showed interest in last off season, in Rachele.

The thing we've lacked, aside from aggressive ball movement, is x factor, ground level forward half players that can hit the scoreboard.

If we're going to play aggressive game, we'll need small forwards who can make something out of dirty entries. And knowing some of the kickers in our team, there'll be plenty of dirty entries.

Collingwood and Geelong have shown over a number of years now that dirty entries are just as dangerous as perfectly directed entries.

Pick 14 this year becomes something like 20, plus this years draft is quite weak as well. Even if you add future first that’s unlikely to be any better. I’d be accepting a starting pick of no worse than top 5 this year plus something equal next year. If crows can do that than we can pickup the phone

8 minutes ago, Garbo said:

I’d be accepting a starting pick of no worse than top 5 this year plus something equal next year.

Fantasyland. Not only are those picks not available, even if they were ...

Trac's a 30 year old on a massive contract. If he was coming to us no-one here would want to pay more than a couple of second rounders.