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Eventually we’ll probably be offered Derksen for ANB, with 25 going to GWS with a F2 for Peatling.

Watch as the Crom dither on the ANB deal instead of getting the straightforward business done early, eventually decide to include in a Peatling deal, and we end up with a F2.

Far be it for me to make excuses for Pert, but in the interests of plausible deniability and later fence mending if required, I think this line being drawn is a necessity whether true or not.

I think we should have a word to Rutten. Caracella but I think he’s back at Richmond. Would kill for Lappin but little chance. I’d put a line through Leppitsch. I like the idea of Jimmy Allen even if he had about 53 disposals against me.

My understanding there are also plenty of people involved in these negotiations & dealings that are outside of the club, especially player agents, whose incentive is clearly to agitate for more and more player movement, which the rumour mill frenzy feeds.

Worth bearing in mind in all the mass erratic outrage over keeping Clayton or ridding ourselves of him (depending on the latest update), is the key variable in all of this is what Geelong is willing to send back our way, and I’ve not seen that confirmed anywhere. I also wouldn’t trust Mackie to not walk it back once at the point of no return.

I’m not sure I exactly subscribe to the “special treatment” theory, although I’m sure there is an element of this. But I’m certain that different people respond to different types of feedback differently, and there is no point taking a one-size-fits-all approach to how players are treated. Like the old fable of the scorpion & the frog, Clarry is who he is and always will be. We either choose to continue to work with it & understand we aren’t all built the same; or we don’t. I think that as a collective the club is still trying to decide. And I think I know where Shand stands on this topic. Hold onto your hats.

Interesting way of phrasing it...

Yeah, but then they want to bring in Bartel for his “Leadership”!

A bit like Geelong with their forward pocket carried out of a venue unconscious?

To be fair, they would have happily kept him.

This is footy. No different at other clubs. Geelong supporters feel hard done by because they made so many prelims but only won a single flag after 2011.

I wonder if Pert would assume this role himself if TL were to be relieved of his duties..?

A bit rich, no?

Oh FFS... Bartel? This effing club...

Not sure the people wanted him, but the same Josh Mahoney that “moved on” from the Bombers and is now doing a “stellar” job in tandem with Laura Kane at the AFL? Looks like Pert is making his bed much like Roffey did.

Ralph is a shill. Not unknown to Pert.

Already justifying why they “won’t go for Kosi even though he is gettable”

Trading back in.

Will get pushed out by Lombard, Kako, Brisbane’s kids, etc. but hopefully gets pulled back in further by the picks used to get them. And likely upgraded with one of those clubs anyway.

Relax. Clubs, like the media bin divers, are just shaking the tree to see what falls out. It’s news because we’ve had Roffey & Trac demonstrate publicly that we can be got at. Time to batten the hatches, tighten the circle, yada yada, back to top 4 next year.

Not if another team bids on him too early.

The media have no new stories so just re-hashing the old, throwing sh*t to see what sticks.

It’s actually all just <redacted> said <redacted> said.

Precisely why they’d want far more than a F2