Undeeterred

I suspect part of the reason he’s quiet is that we are trying to get him what he wants, and that our public stance on holding him to his contract is just posturing in the meantime. Honestly, if he wants to play for another club we should just get on with facilitating it

Honestly at this point if a club was mad enough to offer 3 firsts, or two and a decent player, you’d have to jump at it. He clearly is deeply unhappy, doesn’t want to put the speculation to bed, and is going to be a massive distraction next year even if he does stay. Put together with the fact that he may never get back to his best, and is 29 next year, three firsts would be a godsend ahead of Tassie coming in

Sure, love the footy. But drop the idea of owning the lives of a bunch of 28 year olds who really don’t owe you anything

Mate, if he was an accountant at KPMG, and had a young family and chose to go back to Adelaide to work for PwC, do you reckon anyone would say he owes KPMG because they paid him to do his job for 10 years? Of course not. Why do people think it’s different just because these people are footballers?

No, definitely don’t need to. Some pretty scathing stuff there even when thinly veiled, none of which sounds good for the future

Disagree entirely. I think he’s one of the few in the commentariat who has any clue whatsoever

Never going to happen

Yeah, cos Greg Stafford is the problem around here

One minute to save the season

Sure but on the flip side he has spent his career with Trac and Gawn taking votes off him

He’s an injured mid 20s premiership key defender playing ruck and full forward. It’s f ing madness. He just has to go back

Apart from losing Gus and some truly terrifyingly bad kicking for goal, nobody is arguing with you. Melk going down was a disaster and definitely was a massive factor

Not many things better than giving it to Essendon

This. It goes behind the paywall and hopefully that k n o b B T loses his job

Not my view, just my interpretation of the post.

A player so incredible he’s been in the papers all week looking for a trade, with everyone wondering how the hell he’s going to get a game somewhere else when he can barely get one for north

Agree. They’re terrified of dropping him too, apart from the fact there’s nobody to come in. Imagine the noise if we sent him back to Casey

Mate game day was a cracker today

I think they are saying at least if they came over the top of us we’d be looking at getting rid of a coach who has obviously lost the players

Time to burn the place down and start again.

It should be a rule that you can’t make a debutant the sub. Or just f the sub concept off full stop, it’s just rubbish

Well that all changed pretty quickly

Has to be, right? This is just inexplicable otherwise.

Imagine we’d had the balls to ship Oliver and Petty last year and take 6 first rounders to the draft…

Pr!cks