Ted Lasso

We need an eeyore reaction!

Lets maybe wait til the trade is finalised before we find the nearest cliff and jump off?

Not sure what else we can really hope for. we're selling two of our best ever players, no matter what the trade return is it'll probably feel a little bit underwhelming.

Geez he reminds me of Big boy McEvoy as a player.

The Suns list boss this morning on trade radio mentioned they were open to spreading his deal out over 5 years if that suits their TTP better, Ultimately we all just want to see a good trade for the MFC and i am certain that's what's going to happen be it with Draft picks, players or a combination of the two i think there is little doubt Trac will be at the Suns and the Dees will get something they can sell as a win in return.

Josh Lindsay and Xavier Taylor? who do you like around that mark Dazzle?

Huh? Petracca is a contracted Melbourne player which means we set the asking price. You can debate what that is, or should be but beyond that it’s pretty clear cut.

And… He’s a contracted player. The suns desperately want him hence their willingness to take on the entire contract The suns are open to extending his offer to 5 years so they’re not worried about his age of footy quality And they’re willing to negotiate a trade with us. These are pretty big points that help us

Rapt with this! another new set of eyes and a Melbourne person as well

Straight swap for Clarence?

I get that aspect, but i mean we have chased him for a couple of years and when he was finally ready to make the call we've ducked out at the last minute. the Alir thing is worse given the money he's missing out on as a result.

It's no different to what we've done with Wade Derksen. we've been chasing him for 2 years only to pull out last minute.

It depends if Bailey Humphrey is a possible alternative. If he's not, i take that offer personally.

Love this. Potential ins Hawkins, Hamill, Scarlett, Bartel.

I'll be shocked if Pickett hasn't sacked Guerra and appointed Jeffo CEO by round 1.

you could go the Tinder route with the huge upsell tag. like "Big_muscles_Tim_Lamb

What.... what about Jeffo?!?

All posters need to understand that people just lie at this time of years. I told my boss at 9am this morning i wasn't going to sit in my office and eat Twinkies and listen to trade Radio. it's lying season.

I reckon they're going to get some picks for Ainsworth and Rogers potentially.

@Adam The God @Very Jaded I'll meet you guys at the Tan tomorrow, see if we can join BH and King and Chunk for their walk? get our steps up

the tension with the bloke he's sitting next to being the one we want.

I mean the club has been fairly transparent with this, Steven King pitched to Trac to try and convince him not to seek a move. I think if this were 2024 and the Suns offered pick 6 and 7 we'd have taken it and run, we could have had a package of Langford, Lindsay, Tauru and Reid for example, but this year it's not the same draft so getting a deal done is going to be impossible without players of note.

I can 100% guarantee you that if the Gold Coast Suns don't appease Melbourne, Trac will be playing at Melbourne in 2026. In fact, Steven King is only allowing this process to play out at all as a gesture of good faith to Trac, he would prefer to keep him.

Bowes from the Suns was probably the more traditional "Salary dump" the Suns gave up pick 7? in exchange for the Cats taking the entire salary off their hands. Clarry is a little bit different, no club wants him at 1.3 million or whatever he's on so we're offsetting that to essentially make it Clarry at say 700k which is appealing to a lot of clubs. I don't think we'll get anything in return, but i don't believe we're pushing Clarry out because we want the money, i think the driving force is the cultural re-set angle. We could offer pick 23 or a future first if a team wanted to take on his entire contract for example, then it'd be a salary dump. Grundy was more of a soft salary dump, the Pies had a huge and well documented Cap squeeze and needed to move on Treloar and Grundy for those reasons, neither were negative influences in terms of culture and they'd i'm sure have preferred to keep both if they could It's largely semantics but i think definitions are important in this case, Clarry has effectively been sacked by the MFC, we're paying someone to take him off our hands. If this were a traditional salary dump we'd be saying well if we're paying 700k we get pick 12, but because it's not that, we won't get a lot.