Adina88

Pretty sure that everything bad this club will experience over the next 6 months will come under the heading 'Christian Petracca' - for all of our sanity, it's time to close this thread down.

All players from MCG games get taken to the Epworth, and the full vaccination is standard for spleen lacerations. This is totally about personalities and not process. I had major surgery a few months ago and an organ removed (wanna see my 20cm scar, CP, and compare stories??). Informed consent before all surgery requires a conversation about the probability of death during surgery. Phone calls to next of kin when surgery is finished is standard process. Glass half full vs glass half empty. You choose your perspective.

But that was then, this in now. Is Clarry going to be forever 'punished' for last year? Is May going to be forever 'punished' for the Entrecote incident 2 years ago? CP is just venting his spleen about anything and everything to soothe his massively bruised ego that he's not as hardcore as he thought he was, and that the team won games this year without him. He's learnt the hard way that he's no indispensable, and shopping himself around for a giant trade before he can ever get his heartrate above 100 again is part of proving to himself (and everyone else) that he's still 'IT'. Barring a persistent hand injury, Clarry has had an incident-free year. If I recall, it was Clarry who did a pretty amazing team thing and travelled out to Kossie's home town with him and carried his nana up the dam, not CP. It's not just about performance on the field, it's about what you contribute off the field too. If CP can't acknowledge what positive improvements have been made this year, because he just wants the world to burn, then someone needs to sit him down and have a word.

Disagree. With the greatest salary and greatest contract comes the greatest responsibility. This is on CP. If you 'go rogue' and go outside the club, outside your personal management, and in a way that brings disrepute onto the entire club, then it's entirely on you and you've got some serious explaining to do. I'm getting tired of the narrative that 'superhuman athlete' CP needs to be wrapped in cotton wool, can operate by his own rules, and must protected from all scrutiny. If he ever gets back onto a footy field, I'm certain he'll be gone within 12 months, and that may be best for CP, and best for the long-term culture of MFC.

I have a foot in bucket 1 and a foot in bucket 2. I'm more concerned with the internal playing group and how this will all play out for them - that's who the club must focus on. I dare say there's a fair chunk of trust in CP that has to be rebuilt, and I hope to hell that the younger, 'lesser' players have the freedom and support to raise any concerns they have. I loved 2021's mantra of 'Leave your ego at the door' - there can't be any 'hierarchies' in the team in terms of who's opinion matters most.

Agree. The narrative that is being pushed and accepted that CP has the "highest professional standards" in the club, and that he's the only one that has raised frustrations, and that what he says goes, does not bode well for team harmony. It's pretty insulting, actually, to the players that work incredibly hard, get little support, and keep their heads out of the media. If there are 'culture' problems in the club (what does that even mean??), then I'd put money on CP being a part of the problem.