Dr. Gonzo

Source? 😉

I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

It is highly problematic if two of your highest paid players are only gearing up because they are locked in long term and can't get a suitable trade happening. You can spin it but it is not a great outcome for the MFC. They may turn it around and fall back in love with the club but chances are it is more destabilising than not.

I believe this. I also believe it to be true about Petracca. That doesn't confirm whether those two players actually want out of the club or not.

You mean they're not really eating all the dogs??

It's evident in their actions, lack of public statements and the manner in which the two situations have played out. If you're incapable of applying some critical thinking to the issues at the club, that's on you. I'm sure you'll believe the club when they finally come out and confirm the two players are disgruntled and wanted to leave MFC. We should get an email about that any day now 🙄

Which is why your opinions are uninformed. It would be akin to saying "I only believe what [ALP/LNP] states as fact".

He learnt his lesson after getting the sack from Collingwood. Next time there's a review make sure you're the one doing the reviewing!

Schwab commissioned his own external review, remember? The Andrews Report? I'm sure someone will actually get to read it one day, til then it will remain in the top drawer of his $75k desk.

What makes you say that? I've only ever heard good things (albeit most of that is on here or through the media).

No, it probably won't. And we enter next year with at least two disgruntled players on our list.

What are you on about? Where I'm from when people perform poorly they are held to account. The cheerleaders on here that mindlessly support the club even when it is being mismanaged are worse than the people in the media gleefully kicking us for being a basketcase. There were many on here back during the Schwab years who didn't want to hear a bad word about that administration either, the threads will still be here if you do a search.

Yep, you've convinced me 😂

It's clearly continuing because Oliver wants it too. If he wasn't set on leaving us/going to Geelong then it would be a non-story.

It's done through the AFL website which is run by AFL media. I think you'll find there's no issues (legally) with the way the AFL website opines on club matters.

Haha you have no idea 🤦 Anyone critical of the club must be part of some conspiracy to destabilise it hey? Couldn't be that the people running the club have done a poor job and the supporters are fed up with their mismanagement? We have two supposedly independent reviews going on because things are going just swimmingly at the Dees 🙄

Was that before or after Pert started ringing around other clubs to see what they might offer for him?

Pert's not going to sue the AFL website FFS. Ours supporters have all gone full nuffie. AFL Media is run independently of the AFL, Barrett would be no worse than any other favoured reporters like Wilson, Baum or Whately who get fed lines from the AFL. The AFL website also reports on issues to do with the AFL executive and commission, they've been writing opinion about clubs for years too. The victim mentality on here is nauseating.

Sorry, has the discussion moved on from whining about Barrett now? There's plenty of reasons that Pert needs to go, main one is the poor culture he has presided over that has seen two of our top stars want to leave the club and the utter mismanagement of those two situations by the club. That's just for starters, you can also add in the rampant leaking of info to the media to try and sway supporters to the clubs narrative which has caused further divisions within the club. He hasn't hit any home runs anywhere else either, not great with sponsors, membership and crowds significantly down, no movement on a home base. He's emblematic of the basketcase the club is perceived as at the moment.

"Whatever the outcome, this club cannot continue with Gary Pert as CEO." That's opinion.

We didn't even complain when one of our players was knocked into oblivion and forced to retire and you think we're gonna complain because a journo wrote something mean about us on the AFL website?

No one said it is. It's his opinion. And it happens to be correct.

He's right, Pert's position is becoming untenable

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That was in season, this is trade period.