Jaded No More

Remember this: trading Clarry for a packet of stale chips is always an option. Finding another talent like Clarry, is not.

Come on now, it’s the “Trac never wanted out, it’s just a media stunt” all over again.

What a disgusting mismanagement of a HUMAN BEING! As I said yesterday, you cannot use Clarry as a pawn in some sick game to make yourself appear to be fixing our culture. You are dealing with someone who loves and is committed to this club, or at least was, who is struggling with his mental health. You play with him, saying we want you, while also shopping him around, deluded to think he won’t find out. His management team, the same team who manages one C Petracca, must be shaking their head in disgusting. And all the while, you wonder why nobody wants to come to this club, or why our culture stinks. This is why it stinks. You can trade away 1, 10, 44 players, but if the clowns running this circus remain, then guess what? The culture will continue to stink!

And now we made him want to leave, and have gone from having clubs offer 2 first round picks (according to you a month ago), to Geelong offering us a bag of stale chips instead.

Does this mean we will get fair value now? Or that we’ve given up on that idea and willing to sell for way less than Clarry is worth?

To say we’ve had enough of Clarry is one thing. To use him as a pawn in a game of power struggle between the CEO/board and the FD, in some deluded attempt to be seen as “getting serious about our culture” is another. You can’t ask someone who’s struggling with serious health issues to sort themselves out, but then hold every small indiscretion against them along the way. Recovery is never linear. You either accept them, warts and all, or you don’t. But you absolutely do not dangle them like they’re a piece of meat at an all you can eat buffet, for your own convenience. We can’t keep throwing him on the table and threaten to give him away. We are like the boy who cried wolf at this point. Hard to find a more shambolic football club than this one

Even if it doesn’t happen, Tom Morris will tell us it did

Yep. If you can’t attract anyone to your club because your club is a dumpster fire, then what’s cap space good for?

I think we can all say Morris is a bin diving [censored], while also saying that he seems to be getting solid info from someone at the club... who should be SACKED for talking to Morris.

That's a very naive and uninformed take.

You have absolutely no idea what he's been through, if you truly think he will come out of this unscathed. Sometimes we forget that players are people first. I understand that as fans we are all emotional and we just want our club to succeed at any cost, but that's not how clubs operate, nor how they should operate. The last time a club said lets win at any cost, they injected players with god knows what and ruined their club for 2 decades and counting. This is a very delicate situation. For all that Clarry has done wrong, he is hardly alone. He is not the first or last player to have a fall. If any supporter thinks that Clarry leaving will magically fix the issues that have been festering for a while, then they are sadly mistaken.

Don't forget Owies in and Trac out. Real winners of trade week right there.

Geelong will send the email

You need to be careful using that sort of strategy, when you're already a club struggling to attract talent at the trade table. Especially given who Clarry is managed by. We are looking like a shambolic organisation. If we start burning our own, even after they leave, it will be yet another red flag.

Tomorrow's B&F will be juicier than a P Diddy indictment hearing.

This club seems to have stopped caring about selling itself to members back in 2022. They have treated the supporters with such a level of contempt, and a total lack of respect. Best culture in 40 years, says the man who is now flogging off a star player for some stale chips, to save our culture.

What is being reported is correct. Goody does not want Clarry traded. Whether you believe that or not, is your choice. Let's also remember that Hogan = pick 6 = May. It was a net win for the club, which is entirely different to what we will get back for Clarry. Goodwin is very happy to make the tough decisions, on that you are completely right. The fact he does not categorically want to move Clarry on, and if he did, there would not be a meeting today to discuss the trade, it would have been signed off already, and Richo would not have released a statement 48 hours ago saying Clarry is a required player, tells you that he doesn't think Clarry deserves the treatment Hogan and Watts did. Rightly or wrongly.

I wouldn't go looking for contract loopholes with Clarry, if you don't want Trac's 'team' popping out the bushes now.

Just because he wants it, doesn't mean it'll happen. Especially if Houston is saying no thanks I'm not coming to Melbourne.

So, what you're saying is, we are getting JUH for a future 1st? Cool.

You're going to struggle to sell me on the Grundy is as good as Clarry angle 😅 Clarry back to his best, is a club changer. He takes Geelong's midfield from a 3 to an 8. That doesn't mean he will get back to his best, but Grundy has never been this influential, and he certainly wasn't going to be a club changer to a club that had Max Gawn, just as he did nothing to help Sydney win a flag.

You might be right, but equally you don't know if the division over Clarry will continue. You have many in the club, including the coach and captain who want him to stay. If that decision is taken out of their hands, how will that impact other areas? Goody would be feeling almost untenable in his role, if the CEO/Board is telling him that they don't trust that he can get Oliver back on track. If we are to have a total reset, then it will take so much more than just removing the distraction around Clarry. Do you think Trac won't be a distraction next year? You think trading Clarry for a future 1st and watching Geelong win a flag is not going to be a distraction? You think Clarry is the only naughty boy at the club? The reality is that our issues run deeper than Clarry, and fans are impatient. They don't want to watch our window slammed shut, while clubs like Geelong continue to benefit off us. This club lost 10,000 members in 2024, off the back of 2 top 4 finishes, and a flag, because we had a mediocre season. Can this club survive trading the best player they've had in 20 years for a packet of chips, and finish bottom 4 in 2025? And will we be able to attract anyone of significant talent to this club, to fill the enormous gap Clarry leaves behind? As I said, you live and die by these decisions. This could make our club, or it could break it. Unfortunately I have such little faith in the people who run this club, that I find it hard to support anything they do right now, including botching this trade up SO bad, that we are pushed into a corner to trade Clarry for well under his value.

You live and die by these types of catastrophic list management decisions. If we decide that we need to move on from Clarry, and we give him up for little value, to a direct competitor, then we cannot expect to contend next year or even beyond. Our window is brief while Gawn, May and Viney are still at their peak. Losing Gus and now Clarry, means that supporters need to massively reset their expectations. The same people on here advocating to push him out for the betterment of our culture, will also be the same people who scream "sack Goody" two weeks into season 2025 when it becomes clear that we are not a top 8 team anymore. This is not a Hogan for May trade. We are struggling to attract established talent, hell, we are struggling attract mediocre talent too. Trading Clarry is not some magic bullet. It won't suddenly fix all the issues that this club has. Just remember all this in 2025 when you're melting down over our performance.

Watch them win a flag in 2025

Clarry at Geelong, with their culture and ability to support players, will win a Brownlow. They are a club that doesn't drop their load every time a player gets a little too ummm 'happy' at a nightclub in the middle of the week. They know how to keep their standards, without demanding perfection from players. They support each other from top to bottom. Chris Scott, an annoying [censored] that he is, would take a bullet in the media for his players. This is a club that knows how to SHUT UP and get on with it.