Very Jaded

Their supporters are very understanding of where they are at. It's best to bottom out now and collect a draft bounty. Wait too long, and Tassie will ruin your chances of a rebuild. This is the best possible time to bottom out.

Max is more marketable. He has charisma, he has wit. He is a natural born entertainer. Trac is not. Trac needs football, and a big following to be a social media star. That is the difference.

Make Melbourne Great Again?

What you don’t do, is cause untold damage to the club. This public hissy fit is wasting everyone’s time, least of all the people at our club who should be spending their time trying to make us better, not putting out fires. Already we lost a potential deal with Houston because of this mess. You can’t complain you want things to get better, but then go out of your way to make them worse! There is no justifying this action from someone who gets paid millions and has been very well loved, and looked after by our club. If you don’t like your workplace, do you go on Linkdin and trash them?

Can’t complain about the club not doing better or getting better, while also complaining about people who are trying to make that happen. You cannot review yourself.

There’s a filter on this site with certain trigger words that need to go thru the moderators before they get published. It’s to avoid getting the site into any legal trouble.

At least if we don’t exist we can’t lose

You realize we can’t delist a player in season right? He will be removed from the list at the expiration of his contract which is October 2024.

Since you seem to know a bit about this, are his reasons for wanting to leave legitimate or are they just fluff and mostly driven by a desire to increase his brand exposure?

Nor have any of those parties denied it. I think it’s easy enough to work out.

Most certainly. I think they would be working overtime to appease the club behind the scenes, as we have always had a good working relationship with them, and overall are an 'easy' club to deal with at the trade table. I am also sure they would be working overtime to try and get Trac off the ledge. It just doesn't seem like he's listening to them. No self respecting management team would be advising him to do any of this.

I have no doubt they would discuss it. They have a gigantic portfolio of some of the best players in the league. They would not be taking kindly to the time consuming circus that Trac has created, nor will their other clients be very pleased that they are being pushed aside while this drama is going on. It is also further complicated by the fact that his brother works there.

I would bring in Gus, but of course that's solely dependant on how he's feeling and his ability to be the mediator. Maybe it's time Trac talked to someone who lost everything through an injury that the club hold no responsibility for, so he can understand how lucky he is to still have the ability to pull on the red and the blue. We all feel sad and horrified for what Trac went through, but it is no less horrible, nor will it have the same lifelong impact that Gus' injury has had. One has acted with nothing but complete respect and love for our club, and one has not.

I sure hope so! I can't see any other reason why we insist to keep using him. I have zero background in law, and I reckon I could have done better defending both Gus and Kosi.

Brisbane wouldn't have the cap space for starters. And the chances of Trac moving away from Victoria are negative 3. Rayner is inconsistent at best. I would want Coleman (pending he passes a medical on the knee), who gives us that ball use and speed off half back that we really need.

We can, we can go to the appeals board, which we did with the JVR suspension. I hope we do, but somehow I think the club is juggling so many burning balls, they will let this one drop. Also does Adrian owe us a free session under the "lose 10 hearings, and the 11th is free" deal?

To avoid playing the Collingwood Football Club on grounds of severe prior physical and mental damages caused.

AFL signed off on how his injury was managed. It is laughable to suggest that Trac didn’t say he wants to go back out and the doctor took this to me that he’s got nothing more than some broken ribs. I don’t support putting him back on the field, but let’s not pretend like this is something that never happens or Melbourne is solely to blame here. I’ve seen clubs allow players with clear head injuries back on the field. Not seeing those players try to burn their club as a result.

That just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. However is behind this PR disaster, should seriously review their managerial credentials, or lack thereof.

Nobody is shying away from the fact that we have issues that need to be resolved in every level of our club’s management. But no other player has acted this way against the club, in fact, who is the last big name who has requested a trade mid contract from our club? (ANB doesn’t count as he’s leaving for family reasons). This public relations stunt is on Trac and his personal team. It is not on the club. In fact, our club has been resolute in our desire to keep him and never denied that they want to address his concerns. We are not the ones burning him in the media.

Correct. How can anyone compare what happened to Essendon players to what Trac went thru is beyond me. Nobody forcibly dragged him back on the field. The first post he made on social media was to say he wanted to return to the field. That post was swiftly removed, assuming by the person controlling his social media account. Since then the AFL has cleared us of any wrong doing. He is not the first nor last player to return to the field with a serious injury. Hell he’s not even the first player to have a spleen injury go undiagnosed. As if the AFL is going to let one player unravel their entire medical protocol, especially while in the midst of concussion litigation! He needs to take a long walk and chill out. This is a complete meltdown, which could be explained by his trauma response. However it gives way too much leeway to the snakes working behind the scenes to manipulate him to their best interest, and not his!

I certainly don’t find it incomprehensible, I just think that someone who is so concerned with their brand would. This has nothing to do with his mental health. If it did, he’d be open to moving to any club. But he’s not. This is all about driving dollars into his brand while he sees a small window of opportunity to bail on his deal.

Ha you reckon team Trac is giving up $6,000,000?

Sure. Phil Scully did a stand up job.

Our management may not have been completely acceptable, but if you’re talking about the substance issue, it was taken completely out of our hands. We can’t do anything about it beyond delisting said player. How else did you want us to manage that scenario? As for Clarry, did the club go too easy on him? Maybe they did. But the bottom line is that their care and support of him has seen him make a lot of progress in his recovery. It is a very complex issue, and you can argue that we shouldn’t have rushed him back into the side after his off season behavior. You can equally argue that playing AFL was the best thing for his mental health. It’s a fine line isn’t it? I said it before, but I’ll never begrudge our club for doing what they needed to go to bring Clarry back from a dark place. If that points to bad culture or bad management, I don’t want us to be right.