Smokey

Often people here bemoan the long term contracts like they are a problem. On the contrary, they give us the upper hand in negotiations if these particular players ever want to leave the club. Koz will give us years of highlights to get us excited every week. And if he ever wants to go, we’ll demand a kings ransom a la Petracca. Win/win. Sit back and enjoy it

This should tell you more about how problematic Clarry actually is rather than the trade being bad Let’s not all pretend to know what goes on within the 4 walls of the club. Clarry has been a liability on and off the field for years. And we only get to see the public facing stuff, who knows what else is happening behind closed doors. I back our new executive leadership and coach in.

Behavioral clauses, being subjective in nature, would not only be very hard to quantify in the agreement but even harder to legally test should it come to that It would be an overstep on behalf of the club IMO

Petracca has been shopping himself round while the club has been saying we want him to stay. Hardly a waste of time given he’s about to get traded now. BH no different

On one hand you’re saying King said Trac and Claz were best 22 next year On the other hand, you’re saying (without any real basis) that king has pushed them out of the club And because of that he’s not being honest and transparent? I can’t tell which way you’re going with it because all of those can’t be true at the same time

It's all in the eyes of the beholder. The idea of Trac, Clarry and May leaving at the same time equals a rebuild to me. Regardless of how we got here. This is an opportunity to build the list around Langford. Let's do that.

I wanted a full rebuild after this year and it looks like we're getting one. I wanted us to become a ruthless organization and it looks like we're becoming one. I wanted the new coach to come in and fundamentally put his mark on what we're looking like moving forward and it looks like that's happening. Nice!!

Not sure what you are suggesting here? If Trac is meeting his obligations under the agreement, i.e. "turn up to training, turn up to gameday, play football" then what does it matter if he "wants out" or not? how are we currently or potentially getting "nothing back" moving forward from trac? Legal contracts need 3 things - an offer, acceptance and consideration. The "point" of the legal contract in this case is that we hold the power in this situation. Don't want to trade him? Then we don't. Do want to trade him? Then we ultimately decide what we get in return. I dislike Trac as much as anyone right now, but don't conflate that with your lack of understanding on how contracts a work.

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.