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Actually, luck doesn't work like that. We could just as easily have more bad luck next year as each year's luck is independent. Sorry. Against that, having a full off-season with no finals so players can have a proper break and recharge will definitely help our "luck".

Ditto JVR.

You're just proving my point. Dangerfield was 26 when he switched to Geelong - same age as when Franklin went to the Swans. And Sidebottom has never changed clubs, not that Pies were ever built around him anyway. All of the really big trades of marquee, AA players were players who were still in their prime and with years of good footy ahead of them. A club like WC, North or GC who need experience might give a 30 year old a nice retirement package, but none of the big clubs would.

Too immature. Captaincy has Lever's name on it, then the next generation.

Agree. But Pies first-rounder could be not much better than 18 - 20, and even with two years of future firsts hard to see how that gets done. But the other variables are: - Trac getting back to his very best after the injury from hell. Not so sure. - He'll be going on 30 at the end of next season. Not the kind of age where you can build a team around him for 5 years. When Judd moved to Carlton he'd just turned 25. - That contract. Long and expensive for someone getting into the later stage of his career.

Trac could have had all the "robust discussion" etc etc he wanted, but still kept it in house. I'm sure plenty of the players have opinions on what we should be doing better/differently, but only one of them turned it into a media circus. The one tiny mitigating factor here is that he's still in trauma following his horrific injury and is probably not in a great place mentally (which he has admitted). Still ...

Don't think he's going to be in any state to be doing that. If he can run laps by Christmas we'll be doing well ... though I know nothing of his fitness.

Frankly, would prefer he was gone. Prima Donna. Going to need some strong leadership from Max, Viney and Jake, but I wonder how much damage he's done to himself internally and with the playing group.

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Not all. Not her position and there's nothing worse than Board Members overriding the relative staff to stick their oar in.

She studied law, don't believe she's ever practised as a lawyer.

Conspicuously absent from that is Jed Adams. The invisible man.

Has been discussed here. The surgeon didn't call anyone to say he'd nearly died. Also, there was no surgery, it's a simpler procedure as Trac himself outlined.

From around 2:25 here: https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/1591000/a-sit-down-with-christian-petracca

Paranoia can be a response to trauma.

Voilà.

The article from Robinson is only based on publicly available information, no leaking required. Though I would have thought that seeing those close to you dragged into this publicly (and by inference, negatively) would be an incentive to dampen things down and find a resolution.

“Hasn’t told me a thing (about wanting to play elsewhere),” Gawn told 7NEWS at the All-Australian awards. “He’s told me some frustrations he has with the club and I told him some frustrations I have with the club. And that’s where we got to. “At the moment, he has shown some frustrations, which to be fair some of them I agree with, some of them I don’t, but that what makes leadership groups fun, having some different opinions. “There’s no real repairing needed if he walks back in day one.” https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-captain-max-gawn-sheds-more-light-on-christian-petracca-situation-c-15876595

Not sure about the "reveal" part as that's been up on her LinkedIn for a while now.

Isn't that what Roffey tried to do in the interview?

Plenty of neurotypical people who are as weird as [censored] and plenty of neurodiverse people who are Mr/Mrs average. Not helpful.

"can be fatal" to "I nearly died" is quite the jump. Though once again, the surgeon never said he nearly died.

Not to bang on about this, but in the interview the message from the surgeon was that Trac was in a critical condition because of the internal bleeding. It's Petracca who then extrapolated that to "I might not make it", but that's not what the surgeon said. Not to diminish the seriousness of Trac's injuries either.

I know that this has legs, but I'd question if that's the case in medical terms. Yes, you can die from a ruptured spleen if it's serious enough and you don't get the right medical care. But from all that we know, that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Lots of jumping to conclusions here without the full story. When I listen to the Roffey interview re Petracca I hear someone with their hands tied and not being able to say what she perhaps could. She's presidential enough to know not to say "Christian's being a prima donna". My overall read is that the club is bending over backwards to not portray Trac as the fill-in-the-dots that he is as it would bury everyone, Trac and the club. In the meantime, the club and its staff become the punching bag.