Smokey

One of my favourite players in recent times. Loved his passion and relentless driving of standards. Sad to see him go, but it’s the right call. Cheers Maysie, all the best

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one mate. Your points are well made

Finishing second in this year’s BnF isn’t the metric you think it is. We were horrible most of the year. Might as well have put on a blindfold and thrown at a dartboard to decide who got awards after Max. You say respect goes both ways? Well we have shown respect by committing to him long term and setting him up financially for life. What have we got in return? Trac looking to leave the team we have tried to build around him. I am mostly disappointed by the fact that when the club went off the rails last few seasons, I expected Trac to step up and be the leader we needed to navigate us through that patch. Instead he’s thrown his toys out of the cot. I completely disagree we mishandled trac’s injury. Players get sent back on the field after heavy hits regularly. It’s unfortunate what happened, but the club didn’t mishandle anything. We have new leadership across the board and are poised to enter our next chapter. Now is the time I expect our highest paid player to affirm his intentions, address the media speculation and get on with being the leader he needs to be. Instead we have uncertainty still. If trading Trac for pennies means more salary cap to spend on the guys that wanna be on the bus, then I’m all for it. The surest way to lose talent and negatively effect culture in any organisation is to excuse and accept the below-standard behaviours of their top performers.

We’ve both arrived at the same destination but took different roads to get there. Yes, we need to trade him. This is a football club, not a family. I couldn’t care less about past mistakes, players sad feelings when the chips are down or anything other than looking forward and winning games with a team of players that are fully invested. No one is bigger than the club, near death experience or not.

He signed a monster contract and took a kings ransom then proceeded to act like a petulant child by exploring trades. He refuses to address media speculation and clearly isn't committed to the club. As the highest paid player on our list, this is toxic. You don't need to agree with my opinions, but you don't get to declare them categorically wrong because regardless of how much free time you apparently have to go to training sessions, you're no more inside trac's mind than any of us.

All well and good, but I don't really care to be honest. He has become a narcissist and is a very poor example for our younger players. He gets paid too much to hold our great club at ransom the way he has been last few years and he doesn't even back it up with consistent performance on the field. Trac has become toxic for our culture, [censored] him off for pennies on the dollar for all I care.

He got hit from behind, spare me. It's not like he jumped on a grenade in the trenches of Gallipoli.

Automatic 6-week sanction for "hate speech"

I’ll never understand why these sort of issues (Rankine) need to be dealt with in the public domain. If people are concerned with harm minimisation, then homophobic/other legally protected group slurs should absolutely be handled behind closed doors. Who benefits from broadcasting the narrow views of one individual in an organisation of largely tolerant and respectful blokes? Deal with offenders swiftly and harshly without broadcasting to the world which particular group their slur was aimed at. Serves absolutely no purpose doing this except for amplifying the message. And don’t get me started on the media sensationalising players experiencing mental health difficulties. The way the media has reported on Clarry these last few years has been disgraceful.

In the corporate world, it is very common that organisations will look to move someone on but give them the opportunity to resign first. We’ll never know.

Few here are clearly tired and emotional. Fair enough. Bucks has a lot to work with here. We are a few tweaks away from being good again. We’ve seen plenty from the young brigade to leave me hopeful after what was obviously a very frustrating season. Langdon is going to be a star.

Take cents on the dollar for Petracca and Clarry and just find a way to trade them. Then we can start the mini rebuild.

Petracca should be embarrassed. His disposal is deplorable, he needs to be traded urgently

Uh oh

I think the prospect of a win vs either the hawks or pies will do more for us in terms of galvanising our belief that we are still a half decent list (which may help retain a few players we want to keep that are on the fence about their future with the club) than shifting magnets arbitrarily will do. I don’t see what playing pin the tail on the donkey with the team sheet really does for us with 2 games left against contenders eyeing a flag. Getting flogged by either of these teams due to playing blokes out of their position will only compound any retention issues we may have in the rank and file right now. We have had a shocking year, let’s mot make it worse? Play our best team in their normal positions and focus on winning one of these next two games please. It’s been a really rough year, as a supporter it would be nice to go out on a high like that.