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King will be meeting with some players today, uncertain if Trac will be one of them. As you said though, the timing was interesting.

What?

Agree on both, but it seems that Rosas will either be at Sydney or Richmond.

Far too many AFL fans operate in a binary world, where they are unable to understand what can be true in say, December of 2024, is no longer accurate 12 months down the track (despite still being 'true'). I like to make the analogy that I can, right now, say that tonight I'll be attending Store 'A'. I have every intention to attend Store 'A', as it stands. However, 6 hours from now Event 1 may prevent me from attending Store 'A' and as a result I do not attend. That does not take away from my previous intention, and it does not takeaway from my explicit decision from the morning to attend Store 'A'. When you're dealing with human decision making, there's irrevocably a high chance that what is true at a particular point in time regarding a decision, may not have the same output, especially when you're looking at a decision making process over a protracted period of time (i.e., 12 months plus). Information creep in the football landscape is real, but many arbitrarily deduce decisions to simple correct/false narratives. Personally I'm very sceptical if the AFL community will ever get to a point of maturity that we see in other sports, particularly with reference to trade and free agency. I don't think it's in the psyche of the AFL as entity, nor in the psyche of the ordinary AFL supporter. Overall I think there's an infantile romanticism associated with 'loyalty', 'one club players' etc, even with the addition of Free Agency. Like you said, Twomey and a few others are highly credible; it's pretty disingenuous the constant noise that's made about media reporting (really, one of the only reporters I would take with an absolute grain of salt is Sam McLure; however, I still wouldn't necessarily say he deliberately spreads 'misinformation'). But it's classic, you rarely see posts critiquing our interest in players at other clubs, however when those very same reporters publish on a matter pertaining to the MFC which isn't seen in a 'positive' manner, it becomes media BS, lies, deliberate and vexatious reporting etc.

Well done on reading, now go back and contextualise the comments.

Ironic take given you’re on a forum.

Yeah, I think that his 2025 B and F result is heavily inflated, given his output. Draw from that what you will given what we're hearing.

Any chance that one of your future posts in any number of threads won't be fixated on the 'big and bad' media?

Whilst what I'm saying is more of a general statement and not specifically related to Petracca, surely as a community, we've moved past this naivety. The AFL does not have a landscape where players talk candidly about player movement (cf. most other sports, including the NRL/NBA/NFL/F1 etc). Specifically on Petracca, I'm not saying he'll be at the club, or won't be at the club next year, but at this stage the only reason he played with us this year is because a trade was unable to be facilitated last year. I think it's somewhat petulant or naive to put your head in the sand regarding the Petracca situation; this is bubbling away under the surface and I would expect that if a trade can be facilitated, it will be.

We've got to do something different after the rinse and repeat of 2022 - 2025, so if that means BM joins us - so be it. He's kicked 36 goals so far this year which is his equal third highest tally of his career. I don't necessarily think he'll be the difference between us winning a flag or not winning one, but his acquisition would really add another dimension to our bumbling forward half game and probably take some defensive pressure off either Fritsch, JVR or Melksham. He's also a fairly decent mark both on the lead and inside the forward 50 arc, although I'm agnostic on how that would translate given our inept ability to enter the forward arc in a meaningful manner.

Zero interest in this. No shade for the those that will enjoy it as a spectacle, but really don't see how there's an allure to this in the current AFL landscape.

Sir, this is not a rumour.

I haven’t been through all pages, but I can categorically say Buckley was NOT in the final two candidates.

Agree, spoke about this a few months ago on another thread, but he’d easily be my number one trade target as it stands. He’s outstanding.

Ryan reportedly will be on (average) $1m per season over the life of the contract. Insane money for him.

Buckley didn’t impress, was seen as being somewhat reserved as to whether he wanted the job in the same manner as the final four. For context, I had zero clue that an announcement would be made today regarding the coach.

Five is now down to four.

Above: Mitch Cleary, colourised.

‘Comfortable’

TC will get a one year extension.

We've previously tried to lure Bartel across to us, so there is residual interest. This could turn into a very interesting 'watch this space' over the next few weeks.

Hey may not have made it up, but it’s not true.

Bingo.