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Sad that it might end like this but if we are being honest he’s probably not in the best 22 if everyone is fit. I wouldn’t rule him out either it’s quite clear he has played under duress for a while now and if he could get 100% he could still be in the side.

Well it’s a fair point the media always fail to answer when talking about such trades and why contracted players who have value rarely are able to be traded unless the club is actively pushing them to go ie Grundy

Good pickup and exactly what a team like cats does and everyone would call them geniuses when it kept them in the hunt. He’s a free agent so he would cost us nothing other than cap space so unless he is costing us the world I don’t see a downside

Unless you are able to bring in that another A grade player to replace trac it’s still a net loss, pies completely botched there salary cap and had no choice and then got very lucky they landed on there feet by getting a generational player for nothing in daicos. We are under no such cap pressure so far as I’m aware and have no daicos in the pipe line either, all we would be doing is freeing up cap space and weakening our list for no reason. There is no reason we need to offload trac in advance of sounding out other players.

The problem is unless we are lucky with who wants him the trade it will be very one sided if you were to allow it, if it’s picks we would want to start with a top 5 pick and go from there which essentially limits you to WC, Richmond and Essendon none of whom would be interested I’d assume. In a player swap who is going to give an equally good player back when it’s essentially a net zero gain unless the player is already wanting out, and there is only 2 of those we know of in the market anyway in Merrett and Charlie Curnow. I think the reality is we are going to need to back in the new coach to get trac back to his best

After least year Morris is being a little more cautious in this reporting, all the same issues that prevented a trade least year still exist and just like we see with Merrett and Charlie the mechanics to get one of these big trades off the ground makes it to hard to get a deal done

Anyone know if he starts immediately or will he finish the year at the cats

Not sure what his style is but I’m looking forward to finding out

Seems overs to me, our 2026 first round is more than likely a top 10 pick and possibly in the 1-4 range. As for Koltyn you are effectively giving him up for nothing. Think you would get much better price by splitting them up if that’s the way to go

Least this is a player who is somewhat proven, I’d put him like melksham, Hibberd or Langdon when we picked them up, issue since 2021 is we have only targeted players that aren’t even playing senior football (Grundy excluded)

We need what we can get, we are wanting in all parts of the ground for quality players

Hard to put players against other players from vastly different eras but he certainly stacks up against anyone you would care to put him against, the fact he is so respected by the entire football world says as much, never in my lifetime has someone from Melbourne had that level of respect in the broader football world, Barass is the only one that comes to mind but I never saw him play.

May will be in the oldest dozen players in the AFL by the time next season starts, safe to say any physical issues he has this year will not improve and only continue to get worse. As much as I love what May did in our premiership year it’s clear he is starting to become a liability on field (statistically the worst 1v1 defender in the afl this year) , I think we can move past him next year and not miss a beat. Not even considering his off field issues and personality clashes too.

More a question about our whole season than this game specifically, we went 0 and 5 in games decided by a goal or under, if we went 5 and 0 we finish on 12 wins and a positive win loss record. Are we just unlucky or is this just a result of our general lack of skills under pressure when compared to other teams and something that will persist until this can be rectified.