5 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Reckon he doesn’t

I really hope not. I know everyone doesn’t love him and it’s been a bit of a wild ride over the (especially) last couple of years, but I believe he’ll get back to his best—or at least what his best is now as he’s probably changed simply as a result of what he’s gone through and getting older. He’s not in his 2021 form (and may never be), but he’s still a great player and whatever we’d get for him wouldn’t be what he’s worth. And I have a huge soft spot for him.

Just my opinion, it may be wrong—or different from lots of people’s, so before anyone comes for me, I’m well aware that my opinion is vastly different from some.

And I’m definitely not as far gone as some—I read on FB someone suggested Trac as Captain and Clarry as Vice Captain because the responsibility would help him “grow”. As much as I like him, something tells me he wouldn’t love that.

Edited Tuesday at 12:402 days by 710 Asbury St

On 20/04/2025 at 23:11, GS_1905 said:

I’ll just leave this here for future reference.

Tommy, if your trolling… eat 💩

Salem saying on radio this morning that this didn't happen...

2 minutes ago, KozzyCan said:

Salem saying on radio this morning that this didn't happen...

On 21/04/2025 at 10:50, Ghostwriter said:

For once Tommy’s not trolling. I just spoke with a guy who was in the rooms and he told me that Tracc’s (impromptu) speech was heartfelt and incredibly moving. Tracc said he’s 100% committed to the club. He said he loves the MFC and he doesn’t wanna be anywhere else. He told the boys he f@%#*#g loves them and his speech was very well received. There were even tears shed.

There may be some miscommunication/misunderstanding with what Salem said as the post above indicates that something similar to Tom M's X report did happen.

What station was Salem on and is their a link?

1 minute ago, Lucifers Hero said:

There may be some miscommunication/misunderstanding with what Salem said as the post above indicates that something similar to Tom M's X report did happen.

What station was Salem on and is their a link?

Oh dear.

9 minutes ago, KozzyCan said:

Well, someone wants it known that it allegedly happened. Whoever is leaking to Tom Morris, their Intel is that Trac is staying put. I'd much rather something positive be leaked than something negative like last year.

1 minute ago, Flowergirl said:

Well, someone wants it known that it allegedly happened. Whoever is leaking to Tom Morris, their Intel is that Trac is staying put. I'd much rather something positive be leaked than something negative like last year.

It's a weird one though. I'm sure Goodwin will be asked about it on 360 as well tonight.

1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

There may be some miscommunication/misunderstanding with what Salem said as the post above indicates that something similar to Tom M's X report did happen.

What station was Salem on and is their a link?

I shouldn’t have been so quick to post what someone I only met a fortnight ago told me. This person who said he was in the rooms and heard the speech is now not replying to my calls/texts which is suss. Further, this morning I asked Harvey about the speech and he said, “I didn’t hear any speech. I heard about a speech but I didn’t hear a speech.”

Apologies for quoting someone who clearly had a reason to spread mistruths. I don’t know his reason for such but there must be a reason.

Edit: I’ve got a feeling Morris is behind this.

Edited Wednesday at 02:292 days by Ghostwriter

1 hour ago, KozzyCan said:

Salem saying on radio this morning that this didn't happen...

The best speech to never happen

4 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

I shouldn’t have been so quick to post what someone I only met a fortnight ago told me. This person who said he was in the rooms and heard the speech is now not replying to my calls/texts which is suss. Further, this morning I asked Harvey about the speech and he said, “I didn’t hear any speech. I heard about a speech but I didn’t hear a speech.”

Apologies for quoting someone who clearly had a reason to spread mistruths. I don’t know his reason for such but there must be a reason.

Edit: I’ve got a feeling Morris is behind this.

That’s just a very weird thing to lie about if it didn’t happen, it’s so specific 😂

On 21/04/2025 at 18:56, Dr. Gonzo said:

Love hearing this although just want to check, is this one of the instances we believe Morris or one of the times he's talking out his [censored]? 😉

Ok so he WAS talking out of his [censored]

Once again Morris is likely full of 💩

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From a PR perspective for Trac it wouldn’t be the dumbest move if someone from his camp told Morris this speech happened even if it didn’t.

More people likely to see the original story than the follow ups that it didn’t happen and helps Trac look better after getting the “diva” label.

If it leaks that it didn’t happen (which seems like what we’re hearing), it has minimal negative impact on the club or Trac and Morris gets burned and looks like the little weasel that we all know he is.

If, if Trac and/or Oliver leave, please god let it be to Norf, Saints, WCE or Essendon and please supply us with at least one very high draft pick in amongst the cattle trading.

If they go to Collingwood or Hawthorn I will spew up!

47 minutes ago, BoBo said:

That’s just a very weird thing to lie about if it didn’t happen, it’s so specific 😂

I don’t know what to believe. I’m guessing the speech didn’t happen or if it did, Tracc wasn’t addressing the whole side. Maybe it’s a coincidence that the two players who we know were asked about it weren’t present at the time 🤷‍♀️

27 minutes ago, Disco InTurno said:

From a PR perspective for Trac it wouldn’t be the dumbest move if someone from his camp told Morris this speech happened even if it didn’t.

More people likely to see the original story than the follow ups that it didn’t happen and helps Trac look better after getting the “diva” label.

If it leaks that it didn’t happen (which seems like what we’re hearing), it has minimal negative impact on the club or Trac and Morris gets burned and looks like the little weasel that we all know he is.

Why would Morris or Trac's camp push this as it could so easily be shown to be BS? Pretty dumb.

6 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

I don’t know what to believe. I’m guessing the speech didn’t happen or if it did, Tracc wasn’t addressing the whole side. Maybe it’s a coincidence that the two players who we know were asked about it weren’t present at the time 🤷‍♀️

Just lean into it.

I’m choosing to believe Tracc started doing the nut bush and everyone in the rooms followed suit for 45 minutes straight.

11 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Why would Morris or Trac's camp push this as it could so easily be shown to be BS? Pretty dumb.

Tracc’s camp wouldn’t have fabricated this but Morris certainly would. He’s got form.

9 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Why would Morris or Trac's camp push this as it could so easily be shown to be BS? Pretty dumb.

Just now, Ghostwriter said:

Tracc’s camp wouldn’t have fabricated this but Morris certainly would. He’s got form.

I feel like there’s a plausible scenario in which Morris puts this out as some sort of weird attempt at an apology to the Trac camp after the offseason damage he did to Trac and the club.

16 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Why would Morris or Trac's camp push this as it could so easily be shown to be BS? Pretty dumb.

Definitely don’t disagree but as someone working in that space the general rule of thumb is that the first narrative put out on something this arbitrary is typically the most widely seen and believed—even if later potentially shown to be BS most people have already moved onto the next thing and will never come back to the story. So the first thing they read sticks and whatever comes next (if they even see it) elicits a mild shrug.

Best recent examples of this strategy come from a lot of the things said by a certain orange man on the other side of the pacific.

30 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Tracc’s camp wouldn’t have fabricated this but Morris certainly would. He’s got form.

I reckon Tracc said it to the leadership group or a few people and it's been passed onto Tom Morris as a bigger thing than it was.

Regardless, I'm glad it's being reported by multiple people that he intends to stay. His agent and whoever is leaking want the press to highlight this, which is a good thing.

Regardless, Petracca needs to stop rushing his kicks. He's got more time than he thinks and previously, he nearly always used his smarts to escape trouble

We need his creativity by hand or foot ... a good example of that was his handpass to a streaming Viney on Saturday

He's getting the ball enough as he's playing forward a lot of the time but we need his disposals to be dynamic

3 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Oh boy, here we go..

lol looks like weve flushed out whoever is leaking to tom morris....