Lord Nev

The whole "no right of reply" thing is rubbish. It's already been clarified how much opportunity they were given before the article was published, and there's been countless articles and press releases since then from Fagan, Clarkson, Kennett etc.

Surely some kind of 3 way trade that involves the Souva.... ;)

Both things could be true potentially - 'Pushed out' could mean offered a horrible contract that the club knew there was 99% chance he wouldn't sign.

Geez, tough offseason for Norf...

Good point, so clearly we better not believe Hodge's comments about being treated well also. We'll need some evidence to back that up, can't just take his word for it surely?

Only if you worked at the Maccas drive thru slugger...

Just a terrible, terrible, premiership winning coach...

Here's a recent one from this year...

No idea, but found this from late last year: "Pickett lives in a Melbourne house with Petracca, Toby Bedford and Charlie Spargo." Grand Final 2021: Melbourne’s indigenous star Kysaiah ‘Kozzy’ Pickett has overcome many obstacles to play AFL

I thought it was Koz, Toby and Dogga in a house together? Just remembered reading that it might actually be Trac, Toby and Kozzy as of last year?

A bit of a positive conspiracy theory... - Toby wants more opporunity - Rumours about Kozzy and Port - Toby lives with Kozzy - Toby has requested a trade 🤔

Seems Dymocks must have made a horrible mistake...

And they could literally call the development "Demonland"...

I guess we'll see. IMO I reckon we'll end up giving up a pick around 15-20, or Freo's future 1st - possibly with some later pick swaps in the late 2nd/3rd round.

Just not how we operate though. We don't huff and puff, we just get things done quickly and fairly. All this 'hardball' commentary completely ignores how we actually do business.

Think it was reported yesterday Mitchell is staying at the Hawks.

Maybe. McStay is going there for more money than anyone else would pay him. Who else is coming to them? I haven't really kept close track tbh. Treloar gone, Grundy gone, Henry possibly gone. They'll always have some kind of pull given they're a huge club, but reckon they've been dented in all this now. Edit - Bobby Hill is going there too yeah? Be interested to see his rumoured contract as well.

I have mixed feelings about it all. A contract should be a contract, but I think we've seen both players and clubs try to break them to move on, and IMO the players still have the bigger share of power in player movement - literally declaring a specific club they must be traded to. Clubs like Collingwood will surely have a poor reputation now in terms of handling player contracts, whereas the Dees seem to be no fuss and genuinely try to do the best thing - The TMac and ANB examples stand out to me, plus it feels like the way they've handled Tomlinson this year is similar to that. Then there's the class with which the club has handled the Jackson situation. Combine that with our apparently Oscar worthy PowerPoints and we do seem to genuinely be a 'destination club' in a manner of speaking.

Yeah, reckon you've nailed it, especially after Pendlebury's comments along the lines of 'he has a future with us if he wants it', which IMO was an incredibly poor comment.

They've also said he's furious at the club, which seems at odds with wanting to stay there. Perhaps he originally wanted to stay but after this situation he wants out? Would make sense yeah?

Pretty cheap for a 2x AA, 2x BnF ruck I would have thought tbh. How much do you reckon we would have been paying Jackson next year?

Quite possibly, sure, but Jimmy was saying Grundy "openly stated" this, but I've not seen any comment from him at all about the situation. Just keen to see if I missed it.