The Jackson FIX

People who measure leadership by media presence are naive. Eddie McGuire’s loud mouth shouldn’t be our benchmark for successful presidential leadership. There are a lot of complex things happening in our club right now. The Lawrence stuff, finding a home / lobbying for funding and all the player stuff we’re well aware of. I couldn’t confidently say she is a good or bad leader but that is because a lot of those items are unresolved. I’ll judge her when those items are resolved OR if they aren’t resolved soon. I won’t be judging her on how often I hear her voice.

Lynch makes a lot of sense… huge money owed to him on a back-ended contract so we’d need to cough something decent up if we want them to help pay.

I’ve read enough of Demonland to be CERTAIN that this development means our dynasty window has re-opened.

Why would Richmond want Trac/Trac want Richmond at this stage of their re-build?? Makes close to zero sense. I think the media, the public and apparently Demonland just enjoy talking about the hypothetical.

Clubroom-kitchen size remains a sticking point… inconceivable he can braise ossobucco for 18 in there PLUS fit the camera crew in

Small detail but I would’ve put him in a red shirt today…

Wright confirmed not returning to Collingwood. How long before the ‘Wright IN, Richardson OUT’ chat begins?

The hypothetical-irony is not lost on me that Collingwood was the car that crashed into Trac (after another car from their fleet ended Brayshaw’s career less than 12 months earlier) and then Christian slips across to the dark side complaining that the Dees didn’t look after him

Deal.

I can already feel the Carlton supporter outrage and look forward to reading their supporters’ counter offers of Owies + a future Rd 3 pick

Humphrey had 8 touches at 50% yesterday. He looked very ordinary.

Relax everyone. He’ll post soon. He’s just trying to build suspense so his sous vide unicorn rump video can go viral

Appears his poor-decision making isn’t an isolated incident.

Happy to deal him to a club he doesn’t want to go to.

Jack: “dad, Timmy Lamb is low-balling me on a new deal… can you tell Clarko I’m interested in bashing some heads in the midfield for you guys…. A bit of media coverage should add a few bucks and another year onto my deal at the Dees”

First Fly comments on trading in Petracca and now Clarko on trading in Viney…. Since when was it ok for opposition coaches to comment on recruiting contacted players from other clubs mid season?

I agree they don’t do those things, but the plan is NOT to do those things…. I don’t agree with that as a plan but he is coaching to plan is my argument. I’m not close enough to it to understand if he is capable of coaching to a different plan but the fact he is one of few out of contract will probably mean he is sacrificed year-end regardless.

Not sure that is Stafford’s fault - Goodwin’s game plan is to create repeat contest deep-ish in F50, not attempt to create space.

Mini is contracted but gee whiz I’d be scratching away and what he added to the mix this year. Gus retiring and Oliver’s issues massive headwinds but we went backwards in the middle part of the ground this year (even before KBD game)

That explains it. I was genuinely surprised kids in the schoolyard had come up with that!

My son (8) came home from school yesterday and confidently confirmed that the word in the schoolyard is “Christian Petracca spelled ‘TRADE ME’ in noodles in one of the recipes he was making for his cooking channel”… The signs have been there all along, apparently.

We’re missing quality (and volume) in that 25-ish age bracket… particularly ones who use the ball well and move it quickly. I believe we can get back into contention with some savvy recruiting so I would be trading away draft capital to do this (assuming we can actually attract the players we would like, that is).

I used to like him - and occasionally defend him - but he has become increasingly radical in his pursuit for attention/ratings/differentiation and, as a result, has lost any balance in his reporting. The Kossie comment was actually ‘is there anyone more talented that delivers less than Kossie Pickett?’. It was ridiculous rhetoric. Very difficult to argue people are harsh on him when he says stuff like that.

Fair? “Has there ever been a player with as much talent giving so little output as Kossie Pickett?” That’ comment is as far away from ‘fair’ as I can imagine.

Fascinated to understand who leaked the ‘Trac is unhappy’ story. If it was Trac trying to force a trade it was naive because he was never going to be traded with 5 years left. If it was Trac trying to force the club’s hand to make change for the better it was also naive because now it makes us look like a basket case and we’re already suffering with the Dan Houston decision. If it was some coterie type because they’d had a gutful of watching us lose games from their leather armchair in the long room then that decision in its own right may have actually set fire to any remaining hope we can acquire the players that might help us get out of this mess.