Jaded No More

When Brayshaw was medically retired

I doubt he made this decision yesterday The club would have known and has probably already been talking to both SA clubs on a deal. Likely something to do with Dan Houston. Obviously the club and Nibbler wanted to keep this under wraps until the end of the season, but of course someone inside the 4 walls is a rat and let it out. Very uncool!

Wishing you, Georgie and little Zara all the absolute best. These decisions are always hard, but putting your family ahead of your career just speaks to the brilliant individual that you are. I hope we get lots of MELBOURNE fans to round 24 to give you the thanks you deserve. Forever a premiership hero! PS- 2024 needs to die

100% Driving around Melbourne sucks. I live 11km from my office, and yesterday it took me 40 minutes to get there and another 40 minutes to get back, and it's not even close to the city! 6am to 12am is now peak hour 🙃

Most of Koz’s family live quite far away from Perth and Adelaide, which is where he will need to be to play football. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to it tho!

To be clear I am very much pro moving to Caulfield and understand the need to establish a good home base. There is no argument here. My point still stands, that you’ll never be somewhere that pleases or suits everyone (a 5 minute traffic delay on the Monash is a dream, I am on that bloody freeway almost daily and it never takes me less than 45 minutes to get to Caulfield and I’m not that far from Lysterfield!). I know two Essendon players who live in Caulfield and drive to windy hill each day and the drive is awful. Likewise if you look at where the Hawks are building their new home, it’s also in the middle of nowhere. Closest thing to it is the DFO, which isn’t exactly a cool hangout for young players. I understand why players don’t like Casey, I just don’t think it’s the travel that puts them off, as much as that it’s not surrounded by much else. Doubt the top paid players at the Dogs live in the western suburbs. I’m sure lots of them travel from inner or south east, which can be a terrible drive if you need to clear the tunnel.

Absolutely for the right price.

I swear that if I hear a singular peep from this club between December 2024 and March 2025, I will burn the joint down. Go train in an underground bunker in Siberia. Make silence your friend. What an exhausting 12 months it’s been

It’s giving “I worked on this group assignment alone and you all enjoyed the grades” vibes. I am sure Max is fed up with having to carry the team and then defend it in the media. Edit: I understand it’s totally up to Gus and how he’s feeling physically and mentally, but I would move heaven and earth to get him back to the club in an off field role.

Yeah that was not a polished performance. Gawn is usually quite straight down the bat, but his whole demeanor wasn’t great. He seems annoyed. Maybe he is just annoyed at having to deal with more fires.

He is 1- contracted 2- highly rated by clubs and brings not only leadership and a superb work ethic, but unmatched defensive abilities. Both SA clubs would be happy to have him, and I will be shocked if we take less than a good second round pick.

Kosi

Or, and hear me out, he wants the best for the club and is just happy for us to accommodate a trade so he can move closer to home. He is contracted, means we hold the power. We won’t screw him over, and he won’t screw us over.

The single biggest issue currently facing the club is that we have a leaky mouth amongst the ranks again!

Also absolute LOL at everyone being sad when 90% of posters on this site have done nothing but heap [censored] on Nibbler for most of his career. Classic Demonland.

It’s ok PF, Jefferson hasn’t left yet!

Have you had a baby? Knowing you are having a baby and actually having a baby is very different. Maybe his wife is struggling, maybe the baby is not well, maybe he has sick family. Life happens and football is still a career for these guys. The timing only sucks because it gives everyone another reason to pile on the club. He is contracted and if we don’t want him to go, we won’t let him go. But given he’s been such an amazing clubman, if his reasons are genuine, and there is no reason to believe otherwise, I’m sure the club will accommodate his request. And for those who thinks he won’t get us much, are kidding themselves. He’s highly regarded by those who actually understand the game. Port could fix one of their biggest issues with him, which is their flaky defensive efforts!

You know that as fact do you?

It literally says it’s got nothing to do with it! He just had a baby. He and his wife are both from SA. It’s probably a genuine request to be closer to family. Not everything is a [censored] conspiracy against the club for goodness sake!

True, but he also sustained a serious injury in round 0 (thru sheer bravery!) that saw him miss 2 months of football. His season never recovered.

It's all about lifestyle, especially for younger players. You will never find a training location that will suit absolutely everyone, unless you are Geelong and all your players live in the same concentrated area. You will always have players who choose to live all over Melbourne, which is vast and full of gridlock traffic. Caulfield is not going to be any closer for Max Gawn, or Caleb Windsor (Lysterfield to Casey would be way quicker than Lysterfield to Caulfield), or Christian Petracca than AAMI is, but Caulfield is a stones throw away from like 10 cafes, and Gawny's favourite bakery. Whereas at Casey you need to get in the car and drive a good 15 minutes down to where I live which has a high street full of great cafes and restaurants.

It’s definitely not mere speculation that Trac is upset about certain things. But it is absolutely mere speculation that he wants to leave. There is a very very long road between “disgruntled” and “I’m leaving”.

May also lives down there and we have a number of players who are in the south east which would see them drive against traffic to Casey. By the way the drive from Bayside would take the same time if you get on the Peninsula Link. A lot less traffic. My best guess is that Casey fields is not surrounded by much and the players would rather have somewhere to go between or after training/meetings for a coffee etc.

This. Trac doesn't need to say anything, because he has, wait for it, not said anything! He is fully entitled to have conversations with the club, both positive and negative. A player who is as competitive and as driven as him, would absolutely be disgruntled sitting on the sidelines and watching the slow-mo car crash that is our season. But at no point he has ever said or done anything to suggest he wants to leave the club. It was simply Morris getting info and putting 1+1 together and getting 98 because well, Morris.