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how his face will actually look...

Ah, but which club

Classique Maclure: Headline: he’s going… Body copy: …maybe?

So yr saying O Mac WAS a star? alongside Frost absolutely lynchpin of our 2018 finals run!

since always they're football ceos not business ceos

he's a good player, but no star about on a par with oscar mcdonald

seems pretty clear we've told him to assess his options; whether that means he leaves or not is a different matter i find it interesting that his first port of call is a club that kicked the tyres this time last year - the difference being that this time the puddy tatts don't have anything close to what i would expect oliver would be worth to us in a trade scenario i don't understand criticising pert for being a ceo involved in the football dept - that's literally a football club ceo's biggest portfolio that's why you get people like pert, kelly, hocking, gale etc. in there; they've got 30 plus years of footballing business understanding and experience you actually DO want them having the direct conversations around pushing your second highest paid staff member out of the club - to do so would, i assume, be something that would be ratified by the board the amount of effort it required to keep players like oliver in line, and yet always provide a bail out option, is enormous - there’s a line where it becomes a whole-club distraction and other staff members - players, off field, etc. - begin to get a bit over it there's a reason why oliver was meeting hocking down at the cattery - bringing in a player with his pay packet and rumoured off field behaviour is a senior exec decision that would be taken to the board for approval as he'd be one of the highest paid players no matter where he goes

better to look at unrestricted vs restricted i think footywire has a list, but i'm unsure of the accuracy of it of those who are unrestricted, the list coming up who likely are not in the last years of their careers are few and far between... jacob weitering brayden maynard brayden fiorini toby pink marcus bontempelli the first and the last listed are unlikely to leave their teams where they are key players and leaders of the club this place would blow up worse than the trac and oliver trade threads combined if we recruited maynard, i'd imagine

three journos saying three very different things in two publications so why believe any of em

daniel is also rumoured to be owed more than a $1.5m over the next two seasons under a heavily back-ended contract owies is likely to be on average wage, so probably close to $350k a year bedford doesn't play as a half-forward any more really - he's a midfield tagger first and foremost; he certainly doesn't impact the scoreboard anything like as much as he used to do when he was more of a half-forward he was also in / out of the gw$ side before 'settling' into this position at which he has excelled

add also, in the last decade or so: crom, bears, filth, peptides... every club goes through various issues with player attention / attraction

clark hasn't shown much at this stage i'll take sdk and future 1st and 2nd, which we then on trade to get higher up in to this year's first round i'm personally not too concerned if oliver stays or goes at this point it would be very sad, but clearly something needs to change in our playing ranks

same happened for gunston at the crom, where he was the best young player winner or some such, and had the reward bestowed upon him withdrawn when he went to dingley

sort of but not really the soul of the club is the supporters, not the players

i love that every article maclure writes about oliver includes the caveat that 'melbourne are adamant he's not up for trade' who is pushing for the trade, i wonder? all of maclure's commentary seems to be coming from the oliver camp

i think one of the things that is easy to forget is that afl players are afl players because, well, they grew up idolising other afl players as such, it makes sense that they want to go and play for the club that they supported - it's a definite advantage for the likes of the filth (perryman), meth coke (baker), and the crom (cumming) he's a great get for them given their age and list demographics

great write-up on kalani... Attached to two clubs through the Suns Academy and also Melbourne as a father-son prospect (Jeff, 236 games), White played the deepest defensive role and was often involved one way or another. A couple of times he got caught behind but when in front he was able to quell any attack with a great leap and timed his spoiling well. Playing it safe with his disposals which were often neat, short passes while on the last line, he clunked five marks – one contested – and was among the better players on his side despite having the least disposals, showing his impact in pressure situations.

doesn't even officially begin for, what, a further 10 days?

you didn't include the next sentence: But a third source said Melbourne had indicated to people in the industry they were not interested in trading the 27-year-old sam needs to pick a lane

flow on effect from mcqualter getting the meth coke coaching gig wantaway tigs going to play under a bloke they know

bassatt comes in as one, presumably forward coach midfield coach tbc

very good result for him hopefully it's a long-term deal for him as they need to re-develop significantly

6 will go to the tigs for rioli 12 will go for noble and the filth's future 1st 20 will probably be swapped for a future 1st from someone else as well

flagmantle are using all their picks to bring in bolton and, if they can, baker from the tigs