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I wouldn't give that much credence. Sounds like they didn't say who told them? Unless it is a quote from a JM interview or MFC press release I don't believe anything.

Was therea direct quote that we did say that, or was it just rumour?

So if they are amateurs and do pointless things, does that increase the likleyhood it would affect our team? Of course not. Unless you think we are amateurs too. No, but if we were as desperate as a couple of posters here say we are, we would have snapped it up and thrown in some steak knives.

So you really believe JH being videoed in Freo would have any effect on the MFC recruitment team. What a laugh. Looks more like some supporters are too easily spooked.

Golly, if the MFC was so unprofessional as to be put offside by a stunt like that I'd be heading to the microwave with my membership card. As for supporters being put offside - meh. Who gives a ....

A thousand apologies. And one more for not making a seperate post for each of the 1000 apologies.

I must be on happy pills. If he goes, he goes and the club is either happy with that (or delirious with joy as some here would have it). If he stays I'm not worried about a year of speculation/lack of commitment/relations with the team. I reckon MFC can handle all that. And I don't give a damn about media speculation as long as it doesn't affect the team internally.

Yes, but please state the nature of the source in the first place. Admittedly anyone can make up an unnamed source, but at at least it's something - at least it's an indication that the poster is not just stating his own hunch.

On the other hand, some are like jealous lovers who see betrayal in every glance.

Nor does he sound keen to be a Docker. He looks totally unenthused. But it's just his usual demeanour. If that was a clip of him arriving from Perth thinking of joining the MFC, a MFC supporter suffering from MFCSS would despair of him playing for the Demons. While you may be right, you are reading far too much into that clip.

Evidence for that crude statement is extremely thin. This EtDragon bloke seems to be doing his best to enter the troll stakes.

That's the only other thing I'm sure of. We don't.

I naively assumed (and posted at the time) that Bell's comment about due diligence didn't refer to checking out the player. I supposed Bell was just trying to use big 'business-speak' words instead of simply saying that they won't continue negotiating because MFC is asking far too much. That seemed to fit the context in his press release and the point made by SFebes.

The only thing I'm certain about is that there are posters with diametrically opposite views who state with 100% certainty they are right and their opponent is full of crap. Trouble is, even after one side is eventually proved right, I doubt it will increase my confidence in their posts in future. There, I've offended everyone.

Don't wanna be too precious about our culture. What about the blokes we've just delisted or moved to other clubs? What about AVB who also almost went for family related reasons similar to Hoganminus the $? Does anyone here fear AVB won't put in in 2019?

Even if there are 'issues', they can't be major. If they were, Freo would have made no offer at all, and having made the mistake of making one, it would have been snapped it up by the MFC. Whoops, I think I've already posted that 100 pages back.

Thanks for finding that, but see my post immediately above yours.

OK, but that is just the second possibility I listed. It's not as strong as flat-out requesting a trade and that is re-enforced by: "He's got to make up his mind whether he wants to leave," Mahoney said. Not that it really matters. It seem clear that JH is (or at least was) ambivalent and now only time will tell.

that title doesn't mean Hogan requested the trade, and I can't find the article. As I belatedly edited my earlier post: On the club website: "He's got to make up his mind whether he wants to leave," Mahoney said. Which means that it was not a simple request to return. Without a direct quote from JM saying JH requested a trade, I'll assume it was mutual discussion, possibly initiated by us thinking if he leaves next year it's better for us for him to leave now and prodding JH. Or possibly JH asking the club how we'd feel about him moving west now. Not a direct "I wanna get out of here'.

Where's the actual quote for that? On the club website: "He's got to make up his mind whether he wants to leave," Mahoney said. Which means that it was not a simple request to return.

Whatever it is, it is not catastrophic because they still offered something, and if it was catastrophic, MFC would have jumped at it.

While it may serve Freo's interest to spread rumours and for Nixox to say: there are some posters here who are making similar statements. So either they have been duped or there is something....

Isn't there a mid-year trade period this year 2019? Does that allow getting in more players somehow? against future picks or whatever?

Ah, but you'll never find out he doesn't if he doesn't. I think Pascal put it the other way around.

I was commenting on another post.