Jaded No More

Gross, I don't want any of those players. I'll take Merrett tho 😁

I've been told we are in extension talks with him now Please put up or shut up with your 11 posts, coming in like a steam train out of nowhere

Also home crowds are irrelevant to his social media exposure. Going to a club with 100,000 members is what increases his exposure. Look how much air time a club like Collingwood gets Monday-Friday. This is the exposure we are talking about. Nick Daicos has over 250,000 followers, without trying to be a social media star, that's the power of a club like Collingwood.

It's possible there are two different camps feeding info to Morris... Trac's family who are all in on burning the club, and Trac's manager who is trying to appease the situation while also preserving his brand, knowing full well the chances of him getting traded are low. The Morris report yesterday reeked of 'damage control' around a very fixable situation IMO. Perhaps that's his manager's doing.

That's a very different scenario. Clarry never wanted out, nor did he ever go to the media to trash the club. His actions were damaging to our brand, but it was about him not about the club. If Trac wants out so badly that he is letting people leak his discontent, that's a pretty big bridge to have to rebuild with the club and especially teammates.

He will fit right in then

In 2020 Jack had the choice to go to an actual good club in Geelong, after we just finished bottom 4, and then went on to miss finals again. He chose to stay. Why then, would he walk out of his legacy club to go to North Melbourne? Make it make sense

One problem... Trac won't go to Richmond to collect wooden spoons. He obviously wants success, he's not leaving for money.

I mean that wouldn't be a terrible deal, except you firstly need to convince McKay to leave since he's in contract, plus there's a risk that with Trac added in, Carlton's 2025 first pick will be 18

100% And we are clearly still trying to get a flag with our current list, so we need a first rounder this year (definitely inside the top 10), AND a ready made quality player who will fill a need either in the midfield or up forward. If for example he wants to go to Carlton, then what a trade should look like is one of McKay/Curnow/Walsh (anyway Carlton will need to move one of them on to make space to take on Trac's contract, unless they're back to handing out paper bags!), plus a first round pick. The reality is that any of the big VIC clubs will either struggle for cap space or for currency, unless we are talking Richmond, and somehow I can't see Trac going to a side destined to be in the bottom 4 for years to come. If he wants to go to Essendon, and again, why? Then we may be able to strike a deal with them. But I can't see how he gets to Carlton, let alone Collingwood

But but but we have negative one ruckman on our list beyond Gawn, so how is giving Gawn another 2 years bad for our list health? We are not exactly brimming with ruck talent. Does anyone seriously think that Gawn wouldn't be able to contribute, even as a backup, in 2 seasons? Look at some of the absolute NQRs that have rucked in a premiership after the age of 30. If Gawn drops his output by 50% in 2 years time, he will still be better than half the rucks in the competition. Besides, it's ridiculous to suggest we signed him as a PR move, he didn't decide last night to take George on a bike ride, then call Tim Lamb and say "George finally learnt the words to the song, let me sign a 2 year extension".

I am sure an in-principle deal has already been made with one of the SA teams. The club has known for a while that he's leaving, and they would not do him wrong by playing hardball. They understand why he's leaving, and they will support that move completely.

He probably did. He probably said he needs to take a break, but then spent the entire time actually working on his personal social media content, while also perhaps continuing to complain about the standards and behaviors inside the club. Maybe players didn’t like that. There is definitely more to this than just Trac going to Noosa and the players being annoyed that they weren’t allowed to go on holidays too. Compare and contrast with Langdon going to his sister’s wedding. Not sure there would be much angst there. Either way, good people management would see this tension rising and put an immediate stop to it via correct mediation process. Not let it fester and boil over.

Well I don’t know because maybe she hasn’t started. We poached her from the Pies, so perhaps she has a contractual obligation to fulfill there until the end of the season. Either way, the club has for years, thru poor mismanagement of brand communication, allowed the media to drive this narrative around our club. We should be controlling what goes out and what is said about us in the media. Not the other way around. I’ve been a brand and product manager for over 15 years and I can tell you categorically, that making a product look good, is far more important than the product itself actually being good. Perception is everything.

Didn’t we bring Pettyfor on board? Has she not started yet? Our comms are deplorable. Have been for years.

Guess they all know Pies fluked a flag they didn’t really deserve. Hence it’s little wonder they are where they are.

Trades the size of Petracca take months, sometimes a year to sort out. You are talking about not just a club finding currency to satisfy us, but also clearing $5,000,000 in salary cap space. Unless Trac’s management has been trying to arrange a trade for months on end, I can’t see how 14 days get it done.

It’s going to be a long year 😂

Well if that’s not a dime a dozen complaint heard across 18 clubs on a weekly basis, I don’t know what is… poor Jefferson being yelled at weekly by PF to get selected couldn’t have helped 😂

I want to know that too. Connor and co manage a hell of a lot of Melbourne players. I don’t know why they themselves would [censored] the club off by deliberately airing dirty laundry, when we’ve by and large always had a good relationship with them. We are known to be fair in our trade dealings. Maybe they think we will bend over if Trac carries on with this dummy spit? Remember his brother works there, so I’m not too sure how professional this whole thing truly is.

ANB asking for a trade has NOTHING to do with anything of this nature. Like absolutely nothing. Just FYI.

I’m in the same boat as you. I dislike the way he’s disengaged and letting Morris that weasel drive the story. It’s definitely not worthy of a leader of a club. You don’t spit the dummy in public like that. It’s very unnecessary and unprofessional and has rightly upset a lot of people. I note that today he liked Gawn’s shared post with the club about his contract extension, which is nice to see. Perhaps he needs to cool down before he says anything because he knows he can’t hide his emotions. He’s a good public speaker, but he doesn’t know how to fake it IMO. He wears his heart on his sleeve. He might also be holding out hope of a trade, so can’t say anything for fear it’ll come back to bite him. Either way, this unnecessary circus is not good for anyone, but after this weekend I think it’s looking worse for Trac’s brand than ours.

To be fair I think we should acknowledge the trauma he went thru. Thinking you’re going to die, having surgery without anesthesia, being in isolation, having complications and then also needing to have your appendix removed, is incredibly traumatic. And like Gus and Clarry, Trac has a lot of his identify tied up in football, so to have it taken away for such a long period of time would be very difficult. I hate the way he/his team have gone about this, but I also think that being alone with your thoughts is a dangerous thing sometimes. Feeling scared, weak, and vulnerable would heighten emotions, especially for someone already so emotional. And just as he might blow up quickly, he might also calm down quickly. I’m of middle eastern descent, I know a thing or two about being a hot head. Italians are the same. I think in time he will regret his handling of this situation, just as I’m sure the club has regrets of their own. There are definitely two sides to this and both would have valid arguments. In the end there are no winners if Trac insists on leaving. We all want to see our club succeeds and there’s no doubt Trac playing good footy for the MFC makes that more of a possibility.

I think being a 20 year long joke bring them down a notch personally

Isn’t it a shame that the filth traded their first round pick for Shultz 😁😁😁 Pies could never get a trade done, unless they’re willing to trade Nick Daicos.