KozzyCan

This is the most hilarious result after two years and 27 pages about a guy who has never played a game.

You've got my attention.

Your avatar is and should be the clubs priority. We've got a young core coming through that need proper leaders at the club and bad influences who have been allowed to get away with anything and everything over the past few years are being moved on. Build around that group add more talent and away we go.

Should have traded him two years ago when he still had some value but C'est la vie. Looks like we are fully embracing the rebuild now and moving out the culture killers. Exciting times ahead.

This is Petracca's fault though.

Pretty obvious that the vision King sold the club on did not include Oliver.

Looks like King isn't playing around.

Pretty easy to work out what is being reported as fact and what is speculation with even the most basic levels of comprehension.

They would get a lot of tips you never hear about because they can't be verified. You get a tip from someone that the club is having this meeting. The first thing you do is call one of the parties who would know for sure to confirm. His manager or the club. It's ten minutes of leg work.

You can only do this if there is some truth to it though. Oliver has been floated for a trade the past two years and both times it was the club putting him in the gun. By that logic the leak could have just as easily come from another club like Adelaide who might have had a chat with Oliver's manager themselves, they would also benefit by your logic. Just think that the way people are trying to turn Petracca into a villain and blame him for everything is pretty poor. I tend to agree with your last point that this is likely a leak from within the club. I hate that though. These should be private conversations that don't come out unless they actually need to. If the meeting goes well and Oliver says he's all in then we've basically just aired some dirty laundry for nothing.

So you're idea is that someone from Trac's camp (who?) has told Tom Morris and Sam Edmund that Oliver is on the trade table. How exactly would they know this? Occam's razor is that this has either come from the club who are trying to guage interest or his manager who needs to actually facilitate something in the next couple of weeks. If the club does actually want to trade Oliver then I'm not sure how they do so without it being apparent that he's on the market. If it's not true then we should see the club shut it down in the next couple of hours.

They do if they don't want to make fools of themselves.

You know journalists actually have to verify information through multiple sources. This is insanely conspiratorial.

This is wild.

Oh boy

Settling is different from charges being dropped. Either a victim was pressured into dropping the case or the evidence couldn't prove a conviction. We will never know but the vast majority of credible SA cases never see a conviction.

Yep. Brave New World of player recruitment. Listen to Ross Lyons bnf speech. Spoke about how one of the reasons they lost Josh Battle is they didn't have a creche.

It's a travesty of justice that these sorts of crimes are so infrequently punished.

Just on the Noosa thing. That he holidays up there is more indicative that he enjoys the surf and sunshine that southern Queensland offers. Not that he'd plan the remainder of his footy career around driving up and down the highway to get to his holiday house.

Not really. We got the same for James Jordon.

The club has had leaks all over the place. Recent turnover has shown a reduction of leaks but a few still occur, indeed they occur at all clubs. Interestingly was listening to the Bartel and Mcguire podcast the other week and he blamed a lot of our leaks on coeterie groups not knowing their place.

Bottom clubs would have no interest in spending a kings ransom to get Petracca. His worth is that he could be the difference between making up the numbers in finals and winning a flag. He is going to the clubs that have a genuine interest in securing his services.

Really well said. Don't think either party came out of last year looking good. This year seems to be getting handled the right way.

My read of the genuine 50/50 comment is that Trac will take the path of least resistance. I.e. the team that can actually get a deal done.

The character assassination of Petracca is starting to get a bit much. If a contracted player was unhappy at another club and wanted to come to us you'd all be rolling out the red carpet. I'm sure you'll all be doing just that for Sam Flanders. I'm sure no one thought anything less of May when he walked out on the Suns as a contracted captain. Seems like this is being handled the right way. He informed the club of his wishes and was given the okay to explore his options with the catch that the deal would have to suit us. I'm disappointed he's fallen out of love with the club but [censored] happens. He's still been a champion player for the better part of a decade and was one of the main reasons we won a flag.