Demons1858

First 6 or 7 picks you can't usually bank on rest start to get speculative

However its the first time l have heard a player complain about playing one defensive role over another very similar one. Freo will be similar. Very odd. lmo he hasn't told the truth about why he is departing hence the mixed messages. Could be stuff you don't like to tell the media ie doesn't like the club, or players, where we are heading, or just wants to split from the gf to go back to child hood sweetheart ... who knows but ɗoubt its about a defensive role

Relax, his comments were funny and flippant. He has had a tough few years. Don't blame him for having a go at the club

MFC should just list the GC players we would consider as part of a trade and say unless you are prepared to move one or more of them then we just don't meet to discuss.

Desperately wanting a picture of him in his dees jumper along with first interview to forward to magpie mates

As l mentioned about Lamb earlier, if he refers to a potential acquisition in interviews even vaguely then usually means that it is done Earlier in the week he mentioned wanting an experience forward and ruck support for Max Take Heath to the bank.

Reflecting: If Bella's LinkedIn profile is correct, she quit her junior legal role April last year to become Tracs Business Manager and was getting support from Scullie who in mgr and wife of Eddie Betts seemingly to similarly mgr commercial deals. Shortly after Bella started as business mgr Trac had the very serious queens bday incident and among other suggestions in the media: he wanted to leave (ie means he gets another contact drawn up on different and more beneficial terms eg GC), questions were raised about mfc breaking the contract re duty of care, brand petracca was talked about as part of considerations by his team for a new contract, logically guessing commercial deals Bella and Trac are organising are more complex given the existing Connors contract which didn't forsee the reverue that could be created from brand Trac 5 Never let a crisis go to waste! In the end, media suggests nothing happens as in the end mfc stand by the validity of the contract as nothing of value is possible with the larger clubs Trac wants for his brand. Media criticism of Trac isn't helping his brand Further investigations indicate no issue with the queens bday care Trac received late last year. Hence no duty of care issues or contract issue Then early this year he finally breaks ties with Connors (costing him a reportedly $70k a year for the rest of his contract) with Scullie now his licenced agent. Clearly the commercial deals are a key driver, as well as a new contract, with Bella as business mgr and Scullie as agent I respect Trac wanting to maximise his IP through innovation but the way he and Bella have gone about it has been poor. Suspect the new contract will address the the commercial deals better. Fingers crossed Trac stays married otherwise he will be taken to the cleaners

l never bought into that view. Thinking more to do with Visy $$$

Can you confirm your source and what actually happened then?

Suns’ list boss Craig Cameron: “We have no plans to trade Bailey Humphrey. Categorically.” Categoric would be "We will not trade him". New plans can emerge

We have heard this before leading into trade week

Bingo, its to do with money as much as anything. Was never going to Adel imo, just needed a competitor to help with the bidding at GC

@Demonland can we split this into 2 threads for clarry and trac? Can't keep up

Need to look at both sides. If trac isn't contracted he leaves as a free agent

l fully expect he will get a pay rise or an extra year. Not often that gun players are available

JJ and Bedford were pushed / given [censored] offers re salary our cap being tight imo. At that stage the game was played differently and our bulls in the middle where the best in class. They also hadn't gone through their personal termoils that were to come. The club fabric and culture that is passed down is heavily unfounded by the way the club treat players. Also because the other younger players are watching and saying to themselves at some point that could be me being pushed out even if l am a gun and game my all. I also said if Clarry does need to accept he needs to develop his game or yes he is out

But they weren't premiership players if l recall ...

These are our premiership heroes and its so sad that so many won't play out their careers (or most of it) with the club. l know list mgmt are 'charged' with improving the club but you need to be careful you don't go to far. Personally l wouldn't want clarry to leave and pay half his salary at the same time particularly if we don't have someone on the hook. Back him in to play a different role if he is open to it

I guess he would also have a King connection

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Clayton's training standards imo

Harmes?

Great communicator like Guerra. Both have been super impressive in front of the media. On initial impressions the board has got these appointments right. Don't expect the journos to change their tune for some time though as it doesn't suit them

My experience reading Lamb is he doesn't get too specific about players unless he thinks its done or just about done. l think we can take Mihocek to the bank. With Elliot getting an extra 200k a year makes it harder for the pies to keep others

Wasn't he tried in the middle for a bit in preseason / early game without impact, might have been last year?

Your guessing