KozzyCan

I love how people on this site demand evidence right before preemptively dismissing the available evidence.

Hard to say. There are conflicting reports. I still find it bizarre that Pert is making those calls and not Lamb even if the above is correct. I feel like there's a bit of backpedaling going on.

If the Board and Pert have decided that its time for Oliver to go they need to get in touch with Richo, Lamb and Goodwin and explain that this is the direction the club is taking and they are instructed to find the best offer for him. Basic chain of command. It's terrible to have the footy dept blindsided by the CEO going over their heads.

Would be laughable if this is how the club is being run. Pretty obvious that threatening to trade Oliver last year didn't work as we would have hoped. Trying the same thing again would only prove that it's an empty threat.

That should pretty much stamp his papers.

Probably because the response from Geelong and SDK was more emphatic than we are or our players are.

I feel like I've seen this exact phrasing like 8 times now.

He's sharing a post from a podcast he was on.

Club needed to make this assessment a month ago. Is this group still up for it or are we fooling ourselves? If it's the former you put all your efforts into getting this group right and bolstering them through solid trades and a high end draft pick or two. If it's the latter then do what Richmond have done and get as much value out of your players at the trade table and load up at the draft. Our behaviour implies the club is being pulled in two different directions from within.

How does that work? Pert is calling up a bunch of clubs and saying "hey are you still keen on Oliver?" and we think we can con them into paying overs because we release a public statement to the press saying we will never trade him.

What possible reason could there be for Pert to be floating players on the trade table behind the clubs back? When has another CEO behaved in such a way?

This doesn't explain why the club is saying we're not trading him and didn't know Oliver was meeting with other clubs. Two completely different stories indicates some of the decision makers have been blindsided by this.

This is to blatant to ignore. Complete overreach of his position appears to have blindsided others at the club.

Pert needs to be sacked yesterday.

Are you kidding? Cutting the Petracca hates Melbourne story to the soundtrack of Orcs marching on Helms Deep was an inspired choice!

The Gawn pod was great and for the most part the interview episodes are the best. Overall It's a bit different from normal footy podcasts. Pretty unstructured and casual. They're not experts by any stretch and they're half as likely to talk about ads or food for 30 minutes than the games themselves. Sort of podcast that you throw on the background while you're cleaning the house or cooking dinner and not take too seriously.

That's a ridiculously lopsided trade in our favour. If we could do Houston for a future and Sparrow I would 100% pull the trigger.

With Broden, it's hard to know if this is a pisstake or not Edit: Yeah it's a pisstake

I don't think I'll ever understand why people care about stuff like this. Publicly purity testing players for their social media performance. Ugh, it makes my skin crawl.

Even so, it is possible for him to 'move back' to anywhere he has previously lived.

I'm sure he's doing that as well.

For the most part the big godfather deals are organised about 12 months out and more often than not get into the media early on. One of the reasons a Trac deal simply couldn't be done is because it was far too late for most clubs to figure out how they could find $1.5m on a cap that has a 90% floor, then they still have to make a deal that satisfies us. Look out for Victorian clubs stocking up on early futures this off-season though. Kozzy would be an easier prospect for most clubs but still difficult for Freo, who will be putting a lot of their chips into Shai Bolton and possibly Liam Baker. Eagles might be able to get it done but again unless there is a homesick Victorian rebuilding sides tend not to give away their good young players. On top of that player for player trades are pretty rare. You can essentially do a three way trade by on-trading the picks you get from one club to another club for their player. So far we haven't seen any Big Fish being reported as being connected with us except for Houston which has gone cold. I'd feel worse about Kozzy leaving than Trac but if he does it will be for picks. But honestly if either of them leave the writing will be on the wall with this group and we should be putting everything into the draft to find our next generation anyway.

There is simply no way the Eagles let Reid go unless he is bashing down the door to get out, which if he is, isn't being reported.

According to the GWS site he's a bit of a journeyman. Under the Recruited From: Queanbeyan (ACT/Nightcliff (NT)/Sunbury (Vic)/Peel Thunder (WAFL)

I'm not sure I understand your comparison to players age.