Young Angus

Okay yes Trac wasn't responsible for poor crowds we can all agree on that, but his behavior was a terrible look for a grown man meant to be a leader and icon of our club. May was also a shocker, his continued antics didn't help one bit and probably ticked a lot of people off in-house. If he was backing it up week after week it might be a different story.

Probably not haha but his carryon and arm waving and finger pointing definitely wasn't helping.

He had a crack at our crowds, which he is very partly responsible for, that just made me see red and I hope he and Warwick Capper are very happy hanging out together up there.

Petracca can get stuffed but I love Clarry...god I hope he stays but if he goes I will be rooting for him when I see him play still.

Wow Trac is really full of himself, even more than I thought. You know I stuck up for him and hoped he would come back but Trac you are making this much easier because you obviously don't know what the word "loyalty" means and my god you are a "material girl" aren't you. Pretty ordinary bloke if you ask me, I really want Oliver to stay but everything this guy has supposedly "done" for us was probably never about the club and all about him. Mate, go grow your brand, be full of yourself, our club doesn't want fake BS people like you. You will fit in absolutely perfectly on the Gold Coast! Enjoy all the fine food they have up there too. The Gold Coast is to "fine food" what you are to "good blokes".

Why does Tim Lamb still have a job can anyone answer this?

Lamb said himself its a compromised draft so obviously we don't care about picks, unless they are used in other trades. We need players if we're losing players, ready to go players, surely the club and King won't mess this up we hold all the cards for goodness sake! Be strong and don't take anything less than we should!

Flanders and Humphrey for Trac would be [censored] awesome, def Humphrey! Get him across to us, that would be very excellent. Interesting times to say the least, we really don't know what's going to happen but for them to accept a trade for Trac you'd imagine the dees would insist Humphrey comes to us because Flanders is not enough even with a good pick in a weak/compromised draft. If it was last years draft then it'd be a very different story...this year and next year drafts are totally compromised.

Surely that's the only way we let them both go.

Did King coach Humphrey too or is he much younger?

The poor guy is going on a holiday leave him alone you [censored] He's staying!

Humphreys and Flanders with King wouldn't be a bad result in all this mess. I wonder if that's the grand plan, or one of them anyway.

You have to assume the new coach and others must have a ripping plan in all of this. Patience...it will reveal itself when the time is right...

I would love it if the media goes nuts, their circus gets bigger and bigger, then the Melborne media crew just come out with a statement saying "all is well, Oliver committed and staying, nothing to see here, you've all been punked".

Steven King about to find out just how much the media have it in for Melbourne. So let me get this straight...Oliver in Melbourne, has a meeting with new coach and co, then he gets heated and within an hour has leaked the story to the media and stormed off to get on a plane to Sydney to "explore his options"...spare me! If he's gone to Sydney its because he had a trip to Sydney booked ffs no one reacts and does those things that quickly what an absolute circus.

I know, I am also thinking this. Sounds like the media are having an absolute feeding frenzy on Melbourne which they love to do, but Oliver is a cheeky bugger and he really doesn't seem all that "heated"...to me that sounds like complete fiction. As if Kingy and co. sit down with Oliver and push him out, that just sounds ridiculous and insensitive and dumb. They would have been honest and said "hey mate we just have a bit of a different approach for you in mind...what do you think, and if you hate it then we respect your choice to explore alternatives" or something like that, but be careful what you believe, the Media are in their element this is their arena and they love this kind of thing. It gest them clicks and pays their bills. Kingy doesn't seem silly and if we can see that Oliver and Trac are probably on their way back up to better form then I'm sure he can see it too. Not to mention what it would do to the list if both were gone, unless they replaced them both with like for likes which I doubt would happen. Try not to give the media rats too much oxygen with this stuff, that's all they want, just wait to hear actual news from our club. They sound like they're trying to be more open and honest anyway so let's hope that continues. I truly hope Oliver stays because I think he's great. Trac not too sure, great but his attitude stinks he seems much more selfish and I don't care for that and I doubt the team does either. Don't play their game, don't buy in to their BS.

I don't think any of this is them asking Oliver to seek a trade, I think that's pure click bait and complete [censored]. It sounds like they are just shifting roles and trying to get the best out of people and the team and he wants to have a mature chat to Oliver about that since he is a big part of the puzzle. Sounds about right to me.

I hope he has to walk back in to the club with egg on his face and they all kick him in the bum as he walks past the whole team. Get over yourself Trac, don't be such a sook and just play your part. Not all about you mate. PS. Don't trust anything the journos say they are lying scum.

Or quite possibly, let's be honest, the man isn't really calling the shots he is being "handled" and I reckon if anything like that was going on the other boys in the club would have gotten pretty jack of it pretty quickly. Something has happened to make him want to move, and it could very well be something to do with this whole dynamic that's going on.

Depends what Flanders wants, if he just wants $$$ then highest bidder awaits. Is he worth it? What's he really like compared to Trac do people rate him anywhere near him?

Screw picks give us Bailey Humphreys or bugger off.

Bailey Humphrey come on down!

Seriously a great forum and place for being a passionate Dees fan...thanks for keeping it going and love the Demonland and also the DeeBrief podcasts throughout the season.

Any draft picks right now aren't worth a whole lot, very compromised, I was at least happy to hear Tim Lamb say this very clearly that we aren't in this years draft very much on purpose.

Just kill the whole academy system and father son [censored] it just unbalances the whole comp. Make it fair all round, the only way to properly do it, until that happens it will always be skewed unfairly and that isn't right.