Jaded No More

Oliver never let that leak. It was leaked by the club to pull him into line.

How would a club that values their cohesion and culture feel about welcoming someone who has gone to town burning their club/teammates, for the sake of growing their social media profile?

Maybe the problem with our culture is that we have too many nice guys in position of power. Goody, Gawny, Richo, all really nice people who genuinely love every player. In a high performing environment that can sometimes be a real problem.

If there is one thing I will NEVER pot the club over, and I don’t care how much it damaged our “culture” in the media, is the way we stood by and helped Clarry when he was at a low point. Some things are bigger than football, and players who cannot see that are frankly not good people.

Yeah because that strategy is always such a winner

What really irks me is that the way he’s gone about it, means that he’s made it so hard to keep him, while also making it equally difficult to get a satisfactory trade done. I do not care how little you think about our club, we do NOT deserve to be treated this way by a player we gave the world to.

Watch me burn my membership if that scumbag walks into our club.

Everyone but Trac who wouldn’t be caught dead in a club the size of North

Poor McKay is like

This is also true. Neale, Papley are just two that come to mind.

That’s not at all what I said. He’s not a loser he’s a bloody good player, which is precisely why we are not going to trade him for a packet of chips because he’s having a hissy fit and wants to go play for a big club. Just as we weren’t going to throw Clarry out for peanuts when he was melting down.

Hang on, is Trac not treated more favorably than others because he’s Trac? This is life, in every organization you have more and less favorable people who get treated differently because of what they bring to the table. Of course a star player is going to get more leniency on poor behavior than some D grader. Just as if Trac was a nobody who trashed our club publicly the club would treat him with a hell of a lot less public restrain than they have so far.

Oh boo hoo. He liked it enough to take $7million two years ago. What lame excuses.

It’s hoping to get a trade and blame it all on the club so you don’t damage your brand on the way out.

See also Dusty

Considering that Trac is struggling mentally with the trauma he's been through, I would think he would now appreciate the way the club wrapped their arms around Clarry when he was struggling mentally, rather then throw him out with yesterday's rubbish. This is an incredibly important point. McKay signed a 7 year deal and is all in with Carlton. How would the playing group feel if the club said "listen, thanks but we want Trac more, bye". If the situation was reversed and McKay wanted out, and we said you can have Trac, how would the fans and the playing group feel?

Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, ONE player wanting out while everyone else has committed, is maybe on said player and not on the entire club?

Didn't bother him when he signed a 7 year deal worth over $7million. While I take all these articles with a grain of salt, I've heard enough to know that Trac is acting like a complete diva and needs to take a long hard look at himself. We committed a gigantic slice of our salary cap to him, and at the first sign of trouble he wants to bail. Such disappointing behaviour from someone I earmarked to be our next captain.

I don’t think this is only because of the injury. I think he’s been unhappy since last pre season and the injury is giving him an out that won’t damage his personal brand if he asks to leave. By “punishing” the club as you say, he’s trying to make the narrative about Melbourne being the problem. He knows we are an easy target, because of other issues we’ve had, and he has to keep his own brand clean in order to not do any damage to his incredibly lucrative social media presence. If us as supporters are feeling peeved about it, just imagine what the feeling is inside the club from guys like Gawn and Viney.

You know exactly what you’re doing. A drive by reaction when you have nothing to contribute is passive aggressive. Reacting to posts is fine if you’re also contributing to the topic of conversation at hand. You are not. If you think our culture is so bad, I would really like you to provide some evidence to prove it. Again, I don’t need you to tell me why our club isn’t perfect or facing issues that most clubs, especially clubs that miss finals face. I’m asking for specifics relating to our culture.

What a complete joke. How can you not hate this corrupt organization? It really makes me question why I waste my hard earned money on this game.

I hope we question Collingwood’s medical team and ask why no concussion test was done straight away. Either Moore had concussion symptoms that would have been picked up by a concussion test immediately following the incident, or he developed the quickest delayed concussion symptoms ever recorded in medical history.

Don’t be that person that contributes nothing but passive aggressive reactions…

Besides a few cliches to appease the hysterical masses, what exactly will her saying anything change? I would rather she says something when there’s something to say; for example after a review of the FD is complete, or when there’s movement on the home base front. Whatever she says now is just going to be lip service and will annoy everyone even more. She is not running the footy department. If the board is undertaking a review of said department, with what I hope is an external person with sound footy knowledge, then I expect her to speak on the outcomes of said review. I don’t need her to give me a running commentary on where we are as a club on the field, because frankly it’s not her area of expertise and I don’t want her involved.

I didn’t say that at all. And just because you have nuffies like @dazzledavey36 clapping your post, doesn’t mean you comprehended what I said. I said our culture is not better or worse than other clubs. I never said there were no problems, did I? By the way, since you seem to think we have problems, please can you tell us all what they are? Or maybe your happy clapper mate can tell us what those cultural issues are Every club has issues, and yet I don’t see their club president releasing statements to appease their highly strung supporters.