The Jackson FIX

Rough on the swans 😬

Surely his visa gets canceled

Imagine how many pages that thread would’ve racked up on 1960s Demonland

Maybe we’re the exception 🤣

I understand that. But clubs can’t control the quality of a draft pool. And I’m yet to see a club throw in more because their first rounder doesn’t yield as quality a player as it might have in previous years. My opinion only, but the value of a first rounder seems to fluctuate more in supporters’ eyes than it does in the eyes of list management teams in trade negotiations.

2 firsts isn’t ridiculous unders for a 30yo midfielder with question marks in a few areas. I love Trac as much as the next Dee, but I’m just trying to think about what we’ll look like in 3 years’ time - fairly confident it will be better than what we look like if we kept him.

The Trent Croad precedent for a Petracca trade has blown my little Demonland mind. Greg Wells’ defection to Carlton in 1980 was closer in time to Trent Croad’s trade than Petracca’s potential trade is 🤯

That was almost 25 years ago!! Should we reference what we got from Carlton for Barassi as well?

More logic from a trade perspective, yes, but I’m not sure the fit in the GC side is as logical as it is with Adelaide or Hawthorn. We won’t get Flanders + 6 is my hot tip

Why would he deny if it is quite possibly true and if not true not too far from the truth? He’s clearly looking at options, of course he isn’t going to come out and deny anything at the moment.

It’s always bugged me that they don’t make Steven May ‘May’ every year.

Now now, no need to get nasty.

I read somewhere end of 2nd round for spargypants ? Couldn’t tell you if it was credible or not, not even sure where I saw it

He was a ruckman

Because we’ll only have a few more years of him and during that time we won’t be close to finals, if finishing 14th this year tells us anything. Time to cash out.

0 votes to a midfielder taking up a crazy amount of our salary cap. Of course he has upside, as many on here argue, largely because there isn’t possibly any more downside.

For all those saying ‘just hang onto him unless the deal is great’, I’m sure that will be the negotiating position but all signs are pointing towards both parties want to move on from each other. Not entirely clear why Christian wants out (again) but I sense he is more isolated within the club than he once was. Fairly open secret too that his wife hasn’t gotten along well with many of the wags (my last intel on this was 1 year ago so not sure if that has changed). As for the club? Sure he is still a very good player (2nd b&f) but he is 30, has inconsistent disposal (that is being generous), butchers the ball in front of goal, the game has moved away from what his strengths as a footballer are, one of highest paid on the list and maybe they think he is part of the cultural problems the club needs to re-set from. Sounds like reasonable grounds to move him on and try and get something from it.

Yes please. But sadly I think Demonland is the only group that thinks this is a possibility.

He had a 5 goal BOG game up forward last year. Also, a bit of recency effect with Danger, he wasn’t particularly impactful up forward 5 years ago.

I’m hoping (fairly confident) Trac’s management don’t nominate a preferred trading partner until they understand if that partner can satisfy Melbourne. They don’t want this to play out like it did last year / they looked stupid trying to land him at Collingwood when they had absolutely nothing to give us

I’m not sure that is how it works

Daniher = free agent Allen = Free agent Hipwood = Lions academy. Logan Morris was find though, yes. They’re hardly a factory for young KPFs.

Mihocek for May. No salaries being subsidised either way. Get it done.

D’land would just argue about whether they are the right pills

Do we then end up with a world where you can’t talk to/interview assistants until their season is over? I would hate if a dees assistant left in the middle of a finals campaign. Play on.