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And if we cannot attract or maintain elite/established/leadership level players, then too many draft picks with too much pressure to perform and room to just develop can send us down the Bombers/North route. I’ve mentioned it before, but since 21, who have we traded that is still with us that has made our team stronger?

Are you saying 2026 will be the dawn of the delicious new snack the Max Cheese Humphrey? Followed by the release of the dessert based 2027 Max Chocolate Humphrey? Because if you are, where do I invest?

Yeah but BH posted ‘take me home’ on an Instagram story so these two situations are the same

News just in: Mass performance reviews spike in the first half of October strongly correlated with barracking for Melbourne and specifically visiting Demonland.

At this stage your ‘unlikely likely’ scenario is the most convincing to me so I’ve gone ahead and taken out a high interest $98,000 loan and made a shady bet with shady bookmakers for this outcome. We’re gonna be filthy rich Timothy. I can feel it.

@Timothy Reddan-A'Blew Me going back and forth between these two positions and thinking the last position as being dumb is what I mean, haha

Oh noooooo, please accept my apology if it came across I was saying your post was dumb, I didn’t mean it like that at all. I meant that I was going in between thinking: Dees want Tracc gone more than GCS want Tracc (advantage GCS) vs GCS want Tracc more than the Dees want Tracc gone (advantage Dees) The ‘pffft, that’s dumb’ was me referring to me changing from one position to the other based on posts like yours. Like I have done about 97 times over the last 5 days, haha I was only trying to convey that my brain is absolutely fried by so many convincing arguments/evidence. To which I clearly conveyed it very poorly. Apologies again.

I’ve read way too many differing points of view/explanations that all seem plausible on Demonland to have any clue about who has the upper hand in this trade 😂 as soon as I think ‘ok yes, we are desperate to get rid of Tracc’ I see a post like this and I’m like ‘pffffft that’s dumb, of course GCS are more desperate for Tracc’ Someone is going to comment soon saying ‘Lamb is saying this as a posture of strength to GCS and he doesn’t mean it’, then someone else will say ‘King has been explicit that he sees Tracc as pivotal to his plans next year’ What even is reality

De Goey only played 13 games in 2024 and 11 this year. And the games he played this year were a bit scattered. His longest stretch was 6 games from round 22 through to the GLORIOUS DEFEAT in the PF. 2 seasons in a row of missing half the season for a player heading into their 12th year is a bit of a red flag for mine.

Andy will have his IP. Just saying.

If BH is absolutely off the table, what’s taking figuring out the 7&8 picks so long? As in are we pushing reeeaaaallllyyy hard to not give the pick in our 20’s to them? The pick they need for their academies?

UWOTM8????

Food pun era.

Just come to our dumb club, kick the dumb ball and make us dumb [censored] happy Bailey.

It’s been peak internet. Gif era, hope era, intel era, intense doomer era, anger at numbers era.

Yeah I’m not a fan of how this scenario works out for that reason. Clubs paying out contracts to former players that ask to leave, at new clubs seems wrong on its face. And yeah I’d agree with that. Give players deals with a clause that says ‘if you request a trade then and are traded, you forgo the payments for the rest of the contract’. Covers if they get injured/illness etc. The only way they don’t get that money is if they ask for a trade. Players can have long contracts on big coin, but then that should only be for whilst they are actually playing/listed for that club. If clubs initiate the trade before the end of the contract, then the current situation works where they have to continue to pay.

Yes, where it’s both the club and player agreeing to not see out the life of a contract (except financially which I think is dumb) vs one party not fulfilling an obligation. Which is my very original point: neither club has to agree to do this.

Breaking a contract would mean one party is failing to fulfil an obligation stipulated by a contract. BH asking to be traded whilst still under contract, isn’t breaking or ‘a breach’ of contract.

It sounds like you’re saying if I play that song at my place, Charlie Cameron is going to appear in my house, haha.

That thread is like… 50% gifs, haha. Who is seriously arguing BH should break his contract? Is anyone seriously arguing that? I’ve only skimmed that thread but the vast majority of people seem to be saying that BH should push his case harder to the suns that he wants a trade to vic for personal reasons.

DeeZone December. It’s got a good ring to it.

This is where I get a bit conflicted. I agree with what you’re saying, but on the flip side, (this is the opposite side of the paying contracted players that leave the club coin), players have also signed contracts with clubs that they are required to fulfil. So if we don’t get to a stage that we feel like we have gotten a good deal… then he’s a contracted player and that’s kinda that. That’s flattening dynamics a hellava lot I realise, but if the players are going to try and leave on contracts and do it in a ‘this is just the business’ sense, then conversely, that attitude/ethos also applies the opposite way. He signed a massive, long term contract with us so that can’t only cut one way IMO.