Jaded No More

You understand that Humphrey is contracted and Gold Coast don’t want to lose him. 4 clubs can all want him, but so far only one has something that would pry Humphrey out of their cold dead hands. Unless Collingwood, Hawks or Carlton can magically offer them a Trac alternative, he won’t go anywhere. Of course he still has to want to come to Melbourne. Because the same is true the other way, GC can’t force him to move to us. This is basically why Adelaide couldn’t get the Trac deal done. They had no assets. So all nice to say we want a contracted player, but it has to be mutually beneficial for both clubs.

That entire family sounds unhinged

As I said if they wanna throw us Ainsworth I am not mad about it. But he adds not much to the deal IMHO. At this point I want Humphrey. Everyone else is secondary.

His look is giving business meeting for a multi million dollar contract at noon, and rap battle at 3pm. Kids these days.

Free set of steak knifes with any purchase type stuff.

The hoodie and trackies look means business

Trade period is our Superbowl. Sure we always lose, but we are always involved.

HE IS CATEGORICALLY NOT GOING TO NOT MEET WITH US

Even if we take on half of Clarry's contract, but we remove all of Trac's, plus the money we had in line for McVee (probably not heaps but still), and the money we were prepared to give Houston, and we'd easily be able to make him an offer worth WELL more than what he's currently on. There is no chance we even get in front of him unless we are giving him an offer that sets him up for life. His manager would laugh in our faces if we were like "does Humphrey want to join the circus for $1mil?"

Losing out to Essendon would be a massive blow Saints I can understand, they are going all in and Ross is selling players the dream that with all the incoming changes they can really challenge. But WTF does Essendon have to show for themselves? 21 years in the wilderness, their captain hates them, they've lost Draper, they have the worst fitness and conditioning in the league. If we lose this one out to Essendon I truly think that it's time to acknowledge that 3 years of endless leaks and p*ss poor comms, have made us untouchable to other players. Optics matter so much, and I have been screaming from the rooftops that we have to get serious about how we present this club, how we get in front of stories, and how we MUST REMOVE WHOEVER IS LEAKING STUFF TO [censored] TOM MORRIS. But thank god our board wasted that time fighting in court about voting in elections instead. Great work.

We have no leg to stand on here. Very clearly we are wanting to part ways, and he has a massive deal, so we have no real choice but accept unders or take a big part of his salary on board. Incredibly sad that this is how we might be parting ways with probably the best pure midfielder I have ever seen in red and blue. A 4 time B&F winner who had maybe the best first 6 years of a career anyone can ever dream of.

Essendon would have more money than St Kilda. If he picks Essendon or St Kilda he's choosing money. Which, whatever he's a kid, go for it.

A disgusting move by Ross Lyon He will end up blowing up St Kilda again

Where do the picks come from? They need them for their academy boys.

My guess too. Gold Coast want Trac, but we hold all the cards. You gotta give something to get something.

We have no interest in the draft. Unless we plan on on trading those picks for players, we won't accept it. We already said publicly that we won't take just picks for Trac.

Well sorry Gold Coast, guess Petracca is not getting traded then. Also Humphrey can come out and request a trade, which throws a spanner in the works. His manager is probably trying to increase the offers here from other clubs. We had no plans to trade Trac either, but life happens.

Way to ruin our day Jay!

No way in hell they trade Curnow for Humphrey. Curnow also doesn't want to go to the Gold Coast AFAIK. And Gold Coast don't need more early picks for their academy boys, especially if they get 7 from St Kilda for Flanders. That gives them more than enough.

Not a chance in hell Trac goes to the Suns to play permanent forward. He will play a Dusty hybrid role. That is 100% what Dimma would have sold him.

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