Jjrogan

Your height changes over the course of a day due to gravity and its effect on the vetebrates in your spine. If he's exactly 200cm in the morning he will be less than 200 cm for night games!

Lindsay Gilbee vibes, who was a fantastic kick off half back for the doggies for 200 games.

Probably on my own here but im desperately hoping we find a way to get back in the later rounds of this draft. If this is indeed a 'super draft', yes then you can throw a blanket over the top half dozen players but the depth of the whole draft year may well be whats remembered. The 2001 super draft had mitchell (36), montagna (37), medhurst (56), swan (58), lake (71). 23 years later, if this is THE generational draft, there is going to be so many solid players in rounds 2 to 4 that will form the depth and backbone for many clubs in the years ahead. My fear is we will be sitting and watching but lets see. (Yes yes, every years draft is a super draft)

Fair points, but of all the possible ways to handle this, pushing him out at his lowest value in a fire sale is embarrassing

So in summary. Clarry been a problem child since day 1. Club tolerated his behaviour because of his ability MFC, with the full information set and endorsement of the board, gave him a monster contract Decided in year 8 of his career, standards are standards. Enough is enough! Some sort of three strikes and yer out rule. Clarry, being a human being, found it very hard to change his hard wired behaviour. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. Ok, yer out! And take your contract with you. We'll take pick 18. Go home MFC, you're drunk.

With potential relief from Brayshaw and ANB leaving the club probably already has a fair bit of room in the years ahead. Adding 1.3mln to the pool is great and all but only if we think we can grab a player that will make a huge difference for a flag. But the club doesnt seem to be a destination right now. Otherwise we'll end up just overpaying the current players which is not a great scenario either. We can afford to pay 300k or 400k of his salary for an extra future first or second in my opinion.

Will be mfc interim coach by round 8 the way things are going.

Of course he's right on FS. The solution is so simple. Instead of getting a 20 percent discount on FS players you should be paying a 20 percent premium to get access to that player. For a number 1 pick that equates to a late 2nd rounder. If he's a 2nd rounder then you're 'only' paying a 4th rounder, so it would help elite talent be 'paid for' appropriately.

Beau Mcreery. Wow. Guy has pace. Let's get him.

You could apply the same logic to a social media post.

Well he did. He had car crash type injuries and he went back out there didn't he. So yea he was definitely more at risk than others at that point. That's just a fact.

Bucket 4. Dude literally put his life on the line for the club 3 months ago. But what have you done for me lately eh.

It's got nothing to do with football. It's non football followers. Bigger world out there. Food!

More growth than this thread. He's up another 1k. Still waiting for the next recipe to drop. It's been days and the suspense is killing me. If it's pasta it's all over folks.

What would be best offer we'd get for kossie? from Port? Or Crows? He'd be scary good in that Port team.

Would you take pick 11, 31 and future 1st for Petracca? Cameron was 13,15,20 but there was 2 second rounders coming back so it's around the same value. I reckon that's the best we can conceivably get. Alternatively, we can hold him to his contract and watch him run around half rat pace for a year. If the guy doesn't want to play, he doesn't want to play. Good luck with that.

He'll just rebrand with a new number and colours. Depressing to think about

Imo most commentators are stuck in the past here His account is up several thousand in the past few days. It's growing fast. Trac5 is bigger than Collingwood football club social media presence. Ad revenue for social media v TV is about on par these days, it's no small feat. Clicks, views, shares and likes are the new kicks, handballs, marks and tackles for him and right now Brand Petracca is doing pretty well. I've heard this argument - he needs football. Yeah eventually he does but a few months of solid internet traffic def ain't hurting. He's going to leave a legacy alright, bringing the AFL into the modern digital age. Have a look at the AFL ig page if you ever need to get to sleep. Barely any videos, bunch of boring photos. It's pathetic. Compare it to the NFL, heaps of highlight and content. I'm not saying the game needs to be fully Americanised (z?), or even partially but at least get into 2024. This is all about going viral and massive on social media in particular.

This is what we need to be thinking about now. Trades this year can't be taking place in a vacuum. Do we seriously think we are a genuine contender without the number one score involvment player in the comp?? For a team that can't score?? (4-6 without him) I definitely don't. If we draft these nqrs, we probably eek out a 6-12th finish and then struggle through the Tassie charity years. we need to swallow this bitter pill and set us up for the back half of the decade. If it sounds like I'm throwing the baby Trac out with the bath water I am.

Who we talking about. Surely not Kyrgios. He doesn't even play and he's the fourth biggest tennis player on social media. He's left the small world of Australian media and fans way behind. This is what it's about.

By numbers the majority of Trac5 followers are not interested in football. Trac5 is over 2 times his personal account and growing pretty fast. I would not be surprised if he did speak or issue a statement it will be through his ig page.

It does if you assume this is simply not about football. The genie is out of the bottle. His account has grown 2+ percent this month. His engagement rate (comments and likes per followers) is through the absolute roof. His google searches is high. These are his key performance metrics now. As much as we may not like it Brand Petracca is crushing it right now. Integrity, loyalty and character is not needed for social media status and sponsorship. In fact I'd argue the more ego driven the higher you go. Will he permanently damage his brand? If it lasted years, of course. But if it's a 2 month surge he will be much further ahead. Will another club worry of the sort of person they re bringing in? Well, plenty of clubs are willing to overlook past records etc. He will say he's happy to be there, get back to work and they will lap it up, especially if he is able them to get them to a GF on the cheap. Frankly, this sort of stuff happens in other professional sporting codes regularly, this was always destined to happen to AFL, sucks it's us.

Actually his engagement rate is through the roof right now. Go to the comment section. People are asking to keep football off his page. His last recipe shares are massive compared with previous post. (dumplings). His personal page is not the issue here, joining the dots it's the entity that is trac5. Hear you on the nominal amount to sponsor him. It's a range for sure. Yes this is easy cash, you may not find his brand all that special but he'd be in the top 10 of recipe creators in Australia I'd guess. If there are social media brand experts here I defer to them. Can't believe everything Mr google tells me.

A few had been talking about Trac caring about his brand more than his football and I too was somewhat dismissive and naive. But with some of the info that we've heard today it's becoming clear what is happening. The AFL world is being schooled in modern marketing and brand management We were asleep at the wheel with Ginnivan and this fiasco is another example. Sure he could come back to the club or he could just wait it out, bathe in the circus, accumulate the clicks and earn more money. I actually wouldn't be surprised if to get this deal over the line at Carlton, he'll consider to take a pay cut of a notional amount.

This guy has no idea. trac5 has almost 500k followers. You reckon they are all going to leave? Ok, boomer. He can make $10,000 a post. He can post something once every 2 days and he'll be making more money than he does playing football. Wouldn't be surprised if the goal is 1 mln followers, as much as it 300 games.