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And we have only been a basket case for a few years

I agree but also from Kings words about our brutality around the footy - he won’t abandon what he found most defining.

Not how it works but it does belie the dirty little secret that not many are calling outright - the club has some agency to say that we will never trade him under contract but we are not saying that, and why are we not saying that? Because we might get a deal that we would prefer to having CP5 for the next few years. So this ‘why won’t he just say he wants to stay then!1!1!1’ nonsense is just that when the club is equally as obtuse as the employer with a contracted player.

Dogs gotta bark

I don’t agree and that is fine.

Moron… noted, Greg. When we first drafted him we tried desperately to trade away that pick to avoid having to reach for a tall as was the weird expectation that weak clubs get placed under - so that was not a great start. But, alas, no, that was not the desperation that I was referring to; the desperation was playing him in 2025 because we seemingly had no worthier options. To play these boys before they are near the outer grounds of being ready, is an act of desperation and counter to the success of a career that was always going to ‘start’ when they were 23 if ever, and now looks more like ‘if ever’ will win the day.

I think it was desperate and embarrassing trying to ‘make Jefferson happen’ To each their own hey

Yes, under the guise of having some fun… Give me Nudge/Chilliboy making up stuff any day of the week. At least it’s rudder less and riddle less.

WERRIDEE like

Instead of exposing players who are not good enough or ready - we should have thrown too much money to players like this since 2022. Jefferson shouldn’t have played this year, I won’t go on, but we threw people to the wolves 2008-2013 and I thought we did that with our talls in 2024/25.

This is it. We are prepared to let him go for the right price but are adamant about the price. Petracca saying he will stay would be as hollow as us saying we will keep him no matter what. Just get over it people. You look like sheep walking on their hind legs

I thought Chaplin was great in the middle and a sign of how they might cover for Purcell. We simply need more winners around the footy and Hanks and Hore can’t be everywhere. With our draw we should get top 4 but beating NM will require Zanker and Chaplin and ?? To go through the middle and know what they are doing. Eliza - my favourite - is the best wing in the game but I am heavily biased. Tayla makes opposing players nervous and that’s great.

Can you go?

For all those ‘Petracca is Brand Cancer’ types on here - how about this? The clubs are keen to get CP5 out on the cheap because they want to get a generational talent on the cheap and ‘rehabilitate’ and then dominate within a game plan that suits him and a role that he sticks to. And there we are off to the side - with ND19 playing Casey 2nds and some fringe player that simply is on a hiding to nothing through comparison. I am always wary when ‘the football world’ is angling for something…

Is the season still going?

Yeah, nah, no emotion here. Some real steady, cleared eyed decision makers on this topic.

The ‘fallacy’ is when posters take the pick at face value and ‘research’ players taken at that pick in the past. Available or not, we are looking for talent and ND14 isn’t what it used to be.

I just don’t get this. This is the kind of deal you do to sweep away a contract. We are underselling Petracca in my opinion and bringing emotion into it. We have a contract, he is a very good player, and we have a new coach that should see both sides intrigued by the fresh challenge.

I don’t feel painted. But if others do that is their prerogative.

What I use gifs expertly. You are missing out, mate. Yes there are some on here that use gifs like my 71 year old mother but block the user not the gifs…

Jones and Chaplin is 2. Bassett and Radford gone already.

Well said engorged. With the professionalism of the game now, any notion of someone having to overcome ‘competing loyalties’ is perfunctory performative parochialism in my view.

The question I have is why didn’t Goodwin try May at FF