Sad end to one of the best in red and blue. Time for a think and a name change.

2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Again, a sad day.

A genuine champion of our club walks out the door for a largely useless pick whilst we pay him to play for a flag contender.

It’s an appalling way for his chapter at Melbourne to end, no matter how you look at it.

Like with Trac, it’s time for us to launch into a new era with a new midfield, but I sure hope we had good reasons for this, because to my eyes, we’ve cocked this up.

Should have changed it after 22..

Sad to see you go Clarry, you provided some of the best football I have ever seen from a MFC midfielder but your fall of grace comes with great sadness.

Hopefully Jesse and Toby will look out for you.

2 minutes ago, The end is nigh said:

Barrett has tried multiple times to get twomey to concur with him on the dollar figure Melbourne are footing and is plucking numbers from the sky. Credit to Cal for not buying in and just moving past it each time. No need to guess and speculate. Barrett doing his best to rub our noses in it but others have more class.

yeah... Damo is slagging us off, but he claims that the bulldogs did a good job in trading Ugle-Hagan to GC for pick 70 or whatever. Number 1 pick gone for nothing. But good deal apparently.

Thanks for the premiership Clarry. Now grow the [censored] up and you might actually last 12 months at GWS.

Kane Cornes will be laughing about this deal for years. We are a joke.

Bye

5 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Probably a midfielder who may only get 20 but use it well. Clayton may have got 30 a fair bit but didn't do a lot with it. After 21 like trac he wasn't the consistent superstar player.

Hopefully he goes well at gws.

Let’s not re write history. His 22 and first half of 23 were as good or better than his 21 by most metrics and right up there with the best football anyone has played consistently. Even 2025 Oliver was pretty handy and his poor disposal has always been overstated imo.

That being said, there are clearly reasons we’re all not aware of to make this deal. Can only support the club and hope we are going back to making good decisions for our long term success.

5 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Probably a midfielder who may only get 20 but use it well. Clayton may have got 30 a fair bit but didn't do a lot with it. After 21 like trac he wasn't the consistent superstar player.

Hopefully he goes well at gws.

Let’s not re write history. His 22 and first half of 23 were as good or better than his 21 by most metrics and right up there with the best football anyone has played consistently. Even 2025 Oliver was pretty handy and his poor disposal has always been overstated imo.

That being said, there are clearly reasons we’re all not aware of to make this deal. Can only support the club and hope we are going back to making good decisions for our long term success.

12 hours ago, rufus said:

Gee it's getting to be a tough sell to the supporters with how we're subsidising other teams' payrolls. Ironic that the guy in charge of overseeing these types of deals in the first place is now heavily involved in negotiating our next 5 years away.

Understand the club want him gone for a variety of reasons, but given the ridiculous expectation on the salary subsidy I'd be telling him he's coming back, and re-iterate that if it isn't happening in the manner we'd expect of our highest paid player then yeah it will likely be at Casey. I honestly believe now that he'd prefer to tear up his contract and just sign a new one with GWS. That would be win/win. If he chooses to come back and play at Casey then surely any of our other players who think we've been too soft on him will see it as some kind of step forward.

I also believe that he is going to get back to being a genuine gun in this league and our handling of him from just about every aspect over recent times is going to come out looking even worse than it does now. I am not absolving him of the responsibility he had to drive the MFC forward during his time, but we apparently knew who he was but still ended up in this position.

If we do end up eating this poop sandwich then I can see us taking the stance with Petracca that it is Humphrey or you're coming back. It'll be a PR/membership nightmare if we swap Petracca and Oliver for picks 7&8 and are still paying them $700K per year to go play finals somewhere else.

Timing is everything with some of these blokes.

Look at how good Hogan is now and how much we invested in him when he was a kid. Both our club and Freo got burnt and GWS reap the rewards.

The cats seem to be really good at picking the mature recruits and reaping the rewards without the upfront investment.

We've invested heavily in Clarry and Tracc but they're human beings in a workplace and a lot them can't maintain the one million$ plus standard for 7 or 8 years.

I know it's different with Clarry compared to Hogan but I agree, if he keeps knuckling down Clarry could be AA again.

The Jury will be out with Koz as well. Can he stay elite for the whole life of his contract. I love him and I hope so.

But he's only human. Staying physically and mentally strong and committed to one club for a decade at an elite level is extraordinary.

Hats off to you Max Gawn.

Good luck to you Clayton Oliver.

I don't have the same admiration for the mercenary CP.

Edited October 15Oct 15 by Brownie

11 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Probably a midfielder who may only get 20 but use it well. Clayton may have got 30 a fair bit but didn't do a lot with it. After 21 like trac he wasn't the consistent superstar player.

Hopefully he goes well at gws.

I'm a huge Oliver critic now and I am one of the few people on here who prefers Trac over him, but you're just re-writing history. The year after '21 he was the AFLCA winner and the best and fairest.

This one breaks my heart but….. he’s stuffed the club around for two & a half years, once he got his mega contract he’s been a shadow of himself

If only Goodwin was a mentor & not a mate this wouldn’t have happened

Jokes aside. Sad day, but there is always tomorrow.

Let's hope the salary cap increase in the next 5 years compensates some of the money wasted on paying half his salary.

Surely the "Max" contracts have increased since 2021.

The likes of Daicos or Ashcroft will be demanding NAS type money.

14 minutes ago, Devil In Disguise said:

Kane Cornes will be laughing about this deal for years. We are a joke.

As opposed to his pathetic club of choice Port Adelaide? 10 years with a list to win it all, zero GF appearances.

This is a complete dumpster fire 🔥 of an outcome...

Heads must roll

Hopefully one day Oliver realises just how much he [censored] up his career at the MFC and contributed to the teams downfall post-2021 flag

Bah. Sad day. I'll always love you Clarry. It will be hard seeing you with Hogan who i still love too.

On the other hand, i'm glad the club has given Steven King a fresh slate.

1 minute ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

This is a complete dumpster fire 🔥 of an outcome...

Heads must roll

Yep - Clarries head has just rolled.

The pres, CEO and the coach's heads have also been rolled.

Who else can we spread the blame to?

Clarrie and Tracc....dead to me

1 minute ago, Neil Crompton said:

Yep - Clarries head has just rolled.

The pres, CEO and the coach's heads have also been rolled.

Who else can we spread the blame to?

Agree, but I want more blood spilled...

Furious 😡

1 hour ago, Devil In Disguise said:

Absolute joke of a club clearing a premiership club champion for a bag of chips. Lamb and the MFC can GAGF. I’d like to know who is going to pick up 30 disposals in the midfield next year.

I am disgusted by this MFC decision. Not even a 'bag of chips'.

What surprises me about this thread is for some years many on this list have been berating the MFC management for their incompetence and for making a sequence of poor decisions that have cost the team plenty. Bosses, coaches, assistance coaches, etc have all been vilified here.

Now, suddenly in relation to Clayton Oliver, the same MFC bosses are the all wise making rational decisions that are best for the club.

Since when?

My surmise is that this is another bad decision - one of a long sequence.

Seriously,he is gone, was toxicfor nearly two years,King said enough. I will always appreciate up to 21 but the club has done the right thing... time to move on

4 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Furious 😡

Then direct your fury at Oliver. He brought this on himself and unfortunately, the club.

While the situation behind it isn't the same, it's not really different to the JUH trade - pick 79 for a player who was taken at pick 1. Or look at the Hogan trades in/out of Fremantle. They paid a king's ransom and sold him for pick 54 two years later.

etc. etc.

Good luck to Clayton, but clearly the situation had become untenable. We'll probably never know the real reasons.