2 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

IMO, it's quite something at age 21. For comparison, Petracca's first placing in the B & F came at age 23, where he came 5th.

Spot on, 4th in Gold Coasts B&F is a huge achievement wheb you consider how good those who finished top 3 are.

16 minutes ago, chookrat said:

Spot on, 4th in Gold Coasts B&F is a huge achievement wheb you consider how good those who finished top 3 are.

At times I don't know why I bother presenting facts:

55 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I think we need one of those 'Fact Checking' threads🙃.

Trac's first placing was as a 21 year old in 2017 when he came 7th. It was his second year as he missed 2015 with an ACL injury. Quite an achievement as he was competing with Jones, Viney, Oliver etc.

6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Interesting focus on " the role our high-performance team played" -

2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Nice, not as strong as I'd like to hear but still pretty straight forward and sounds like Trac knows the state of things too and what might or might not get done.

Nice one, Tim. Round 1 is over.

Suns say Humphrey won't be traded under any circumstance.

MFC say Trac is a superstar, if you want him, you need to give us the best deal.

Look forward to Round 2.

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I love trade week

Tim Lamb: "by far the most likely outcome is christian Petracca is playing for Melbourne next year, it's up to the Suns to turn our head" - almost scoffed when they suggested pick 7

Craig Cameron: Bailey Humphrey can meet with as many clubs as he likes, we're not trading him

Reaility: both sides posturing, who bends first?

This is the first major test of Guerra, King and the new MFC

If this club lets a newbie franchise or Trac bend them over, we will lose whatever shred of credibility we have left in this competition and it’ll go down like sour milk for the small stronghold of remaining loyal members. Myself included.

Let’s see how this pans out.

2 minutes ago, Ted Lasso said:

I love trade week

Tim Lamb: "by far the most likely outcome is christian Petracca is playing for Melbourne next year, it's up to the Suns to turn our head" - almost scoffed when they suggested pick 7

Craig Cameron: Bailey Humphrey can meet with as many clubs as he likes, we're not trading him

Reaility: both sides posturing, who bends first?

This is the first major test of Guerra, King and the new MFC

Massive first Test for the new Regime. We're 0 for 4 at the moment and the club needs a W.

Unfortunately we have a history of bringing knives to gun fights and we really aren't very attractive at the moment.

1 minute ago, Singa said:

Massive first Test for the new Regime. We're 0 for 4 at the moment and the club needs a W.

Unfortunately we have a history of bringing knives to gun fights and we really aren't very attractive at the moment.

we have the gun "Trac" and they want him.

we're in a position of natural strength and it would be a huge failure to get a deal that doesn't make us really excited.

Round 1. Lamb. They need to give us the best deal for Trac. “They need to satisfy us”.

Craig Cameron. “Humphrey is not for trade”.

Ok. So it’s a stalemate.

We don’t want just picks. We don’t need Ainsworth and a pick 17, that ends up as pick “24”.

Trac is contracted for 4 more years. FFS. If they want him, pay up or farrrrk offf.

33 minutes ago, Ted Lasso said:

I love trade week

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List Managers be like .....

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43 minutes ago, Singa said:

Massive first Test for the new Regime. We're 0 for 4 at the moment and the club needs a W.

Unfortunately we have a history of bringing knives to gun fights and we really aren't very attractive at the moment.

0-4 ? Who are you taking about ? Flanders and?

Petracca right now

One of Tom Morris’ predictions for trade week (in a filler segment on Trade Radio) was that the Petracca deal would ultimately get done but would drag on and would be dramatic, with Melbourne taking Trac off the table even at one point before ultimately relenting.

Demonland would melt down.

7 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Petracca right now

More like ..

1 minute ago, The Jackson FIX said:

One of Tom Morris’ predictions for trade week (in a filler segment on Trade Radio) was that the Petracca deal would ultimately get done but would drag on and would be dramatic, with Melbourne taking Trac off the table even at one point before ultimately relenting.

Demonland would melt down.

Perhaps it would but the pressure on the club from fans such as those on here who on the one hand are filthy at Petracca and want him gone and expect the club to not have him on the books in 2026, and on the other hand expect the club to get its pound of flesh and get real value from him.

At some point these are antithetical concepts - I am more than willing to let King have a go at making him into a fwd-mid who we try to minimise the times he kicks into the for are half.

But there are fans that will not accept him back at all and is the club going to want to weather that?

7 minutes ago, rpfc said:

I am more than willing to let King have a go at making him into a fwd-mid who we try to minimise the times he kicks into the for are half.

Me too.

Happy for Trac to stay.

But would much rather accelerate our list build with Humphrey now.

Time will tell.

3 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Me too.

Happy for Trac to stay.

But would much rather accelerate our list build with Humphrey now.

Time will tell.

MFC in the Bailey Humphrey section

41 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Perhaps it would but the pressure on the club from fans such as those on here who on the one hand are filthy at Petracca and want him gone and expect the club to not have him on the books in 2026, and on the other hand expect the club to get its pound of flesh and get real value from him.

At some point these are antithetical concepts - I am more than willing to let King have a go at making him into a fwd-mid who we try to minimise the times he kicks into the for are half.

But there are fans that will not accept him back at all and is the club going to want to weather that?

The problem with a deal not going through now is that if he's not traded this year, then there's even less chance he'll be traded next year, which he's 100% guaranteed to ask for. It's kind of now or never - and the question is how much the club is willing for this circus to keep rolling, every, damn, year: stop the hurdy-gurdy, I wanna get off. Trade him (but don't blink - no unders).

3 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Wasn't Frost brought in by Mahoney?

I'm not sure my memory is not that good but I thought it was Lamb

4 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

You are a pitiful human if you think Clarry doesn't deserve our love. Either that, or you have no clue whatsoever what he's been through, which is a hell of a lot more than Trac has.

But by all means, keep telling us how we deserve to hate a guy who won 4 B&Fs, 2 Coaches Awards and has never, not once, said a bad word about our club, nor tried blowing up the joint so we would trade him.

Well Trac isn't getting it what's the difference? He ruined our dynasty if you can't handle that then I can't help you. The sooner we get rid of this culture killer the better off we will be. You got me wrong I love him he's a premiership player but he's burned too many bridges. It's great that we are keeping Trac I'm glad.

4 hours ago, Adina88 said:

I'm not quite sure why you think Petracca deserves all the sympathy/empathy and Oliver deserves none. Either way, let's set the record straight on a couple of things, hopefully for the final time because this off-field melodrama is really tiring:

1. The Club didn't visit Christian while he was off injured because medically, no-one was allowed to visit him. Spleen injuries = immuno-compromise = no non-family visitors.

2. The story that no-one from the club contacted him is also not true: Christian himself was interviewed by the Club in a sitdown at one point (remember that? On his couch?) and he admitted that he'd had plenty of phonecalls from the Club. He also admits that for a period of time he just didn't pick up the phone.

Be emotional about it all you want, but let's not rewrite history to suit a narrative.

So your telling me he's annoyed at the club for no reason? Yeah right.