Fat Tony

It might not mean compensation to us but it may dilute St Kilda's compensation for Battle. The system is deliberately vague.

Wonder if St Kilda do a late pick trade with us so that they don't impact any compensation for Battle.

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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/why-petracca-s-bid-to-depart-the-demons-remains-a-long-shot-20240826-p5k5eu.html The Age article outlines all the reasons why a trade won't happen. Another club would have to fork out a huge percentage of their salary cap and picks in order to get Petracca, who has doubts on his physical and mental fitness. The club and players needs to make sure we can be conciliatory, because the most likely situation is we have to kiss and make up.

Is Trac Keyser Söze?

The hearing is at 6.30pm tonight.

I hope the club lobbies the AFL to break up the player agencies. The concentration into a handful of firms gives them too much power and hurts the smaller clubs. They all have to be registered with the AFL and they could easily put a cap on the value of each agency.

Trac is clearly going through a lot at the moment. He has always been immature and self centred. But we need to be trying to mend the situation for if Trac stays a Demon (as I think is most likely given the difficult nature of such a trade).

The Blues would have planned for all those contract to expire. They would be backloading contracts already.

Trac is following the playbook for players seeking a trade. I would not expect the club will be told anymore information about what his true grievances are (now that the exit interview is over) and we will only be speaking to his management in the offseason. There will be some more leaks to the media, but Trac will continue to be vague about his issues and tell different problems to different parties. My guess is that he has a list of things he doesn't like about the club (none of them being major). The main issue is probably that he wants to go to a club that has more chance of winning a flag and bigger crowds. Even if we can't really know the real problems, I think Goodwin will back his ability to turn things around. For all his perceived tactical deficiencies, he seems to have a good connection with the players. Our plan should be to 1) tell Trac that we love him (regardless) and 2) tell his manager that we don't intent to trade him. But if we were to consider a trade, this is what it would take for us to even think about it. Let them do all the work.

Carlton's salary cap would be tight as a drum. Any trade there would have to involve multiple players being moved out. The Pies have no picks and would also have a tight salary cap. We are going to ask for the world and fair enough too. I still think he will most likely be a Demon in six weeks and we should plan accordingly.

The club needs to make sure that the players maintain good relations with Trac over the next six weeks, especially with Wacky Wednesday tomorrow. (I think Trac probably won't attend given his injury and the situation but we don't need an incident.) I still think it will be unlikely that we can strike a deal which is sufficient given the clubs he wants to go to have low draft capital. We need to be confident that Trac will not be disruptive if no trade occurs and so we don't need an incident while the players are on the booze.

I don’t feel so bad about Heeney taking a screamer on Trac in the Colgate ad anymore.

Zak Jones actually had a pretty good finish to the season, with an AFL Player Rating of 10.6 in the last 7 games and he is out of contract. We might have won against Brisbane, GWS and Port had he been playing for us those nights.

I think it's likely Petracca will stay, but we trade him if the deal is good for us.

I think Tex Walker makes more sense if we go this direction.

Goodwin can't properly develop players? McVee, Rivers, Pickett, Windsor, Turner, JVR, Tholstrup, Bowey, Jackson, Howes, Chandler, Petty, Fritsch, Spargo, ANB, Hunt would beg to differ.

He deviates towards the ball and tries to kick it off the ground and braces after Moore unexpectedly slid into the contest. If Moore had have got to the ball earlier and attacked the ball in that manner, Kossie would have got a free kick for taking his legs out.

Rachele is on too much money. Look at the Giants list for some options. They have too many small forwards to play them all.

I think we can build around Disco and JVR, with Fritsch as a third tall. We would get more value from insert a player like Tom Papley, Bobby Hill or Charlie Cameron than Max King. Matt Owies is a player we should look at. Sam Wicks is another. If we keep Petracca and find some depth in the midfield, he can be used forward as well.

You pay a steep price to do it and it worked with Kossie because we selected so well. But the other similar trades have been costly (although we have still selected well with JVR and Bowey and so they haven't ended up so bad). I would prefer we go the other way and trade our picks into the future (and earn the steep interest rate) but the people in power have too much career risk and this conflicts with the long-term interests of the club. Obviously the trade into the 2020 draft would have also been a spectacular win had we netted Bowey and Holmes.

For another future first round pick. JVR wasn’t free.

No because the rib cage goes around your body and is not just on your side. The belief that you are less likely to cause concussions from not bracing is false. If you hit someone in the head at full speed, it doesn’t matter (to the player hit in the head) if you’re arm is straight or parallel to the ground.

Read it again. We traded our 2021 pick for a pick in 2020.

I thought the Weideman decision was wrong at the time. Players sliding in like that are leaving themselves open.