List Mgmt. 2024 Draft/Trade/FA Thread

[Scythe94]

Confirmed outs:

• Alex Neal-Bullen (Traded to Adelaide)
• Angus Brayshaw (Retired)
• Ben Brown (Retired)
• Lachie Hunter (Retired)
• Adam Tomlinson (Delisted)
• Josh Schache (Delisted)
• Kyah Farris-White (Delisted)
• Future First (Traded to Essendon)
• Future Third (Traded to Adelaide)
• Picks 40, 54, 65 (Traded to Essendon)
• Pick 49 (Traded to Brisbane)
• Joel Smith (Delisted)

Confirmed ins:

• Tom Campbell (Free Agent from St Kilda)
• Harry Sharp (Traded from Brisbane)
• Future Third (Traded from Brisbane)
• Harvey Langford (Pick 6)
• Xavier Lindsay (Pick 11, Traded from Essendon)
• Aidan Johnson (Pick 68)
• Ricky Mentha (Cat B Rookie)

On-traded:

• Pick 28 (from Adelaide, to Essendon)
• Pick 46 (from Adelaide, to Essendon)
• Future Third (from Essendon, to Brisbane)

 

[Toump Ass]

There's trouble brewing with Pickett & Trac
So hurry up, Goody, and move your digestive tract

Defecate on my face
Defecate on my face

Here come the trades, it’s near the end
Proud to say that my coach never used an S-bend
What's that, Goody? Your bowel is on strike?
Then it's all over for our learnings, guys

<3 brilliant.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Literally the 2 players I'd least want to lose. Koz and Trac. Literally the last 2 the club can afford to lose too. No one showed up those last few games. Imagine the crowd size if Teac and Koz left. Wowee.

Meh, if we have a different coach and some kids people will get over it pretty quick. Style of play more important to me than the players.

 

[Mich0]

Why the **** are all our shit players not requesting trades

 

[The Dr]

Would honestly be more upset with Koz leaving than Trac


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[MarcMaverick]

MFC

 

[dazzledavey36]

 

[Benzay]

Goodwin is probably licking his lips with our two most exciting players wanting to leave, he's about to roll out the most dour and unwatchable team in football history in 2025.

Sparrow, Viney and Laurie in the midfield round 1. LFG

 

[space_cowboy]

Didn’t someone say Koz partners family were Vic based? His manager re-affirmed the club just last week. Sounds like Trac is influencing others.

Yeah... that Trac.

First he held Clarry down and shoved stuff up his nose, then he stole Smith's phone, then he refused to come to the bench when he was clearly injured.. not to mention how he ignores all the kids at family day every year.

He should be grateful that we're keeping him on the list.

 

[omit]

ANB wants to go to Adelaide. They're going to give back 2nd round pick we sent them for McAdam aren't they.

 

[Crusty Demon]

Meh, if we have a different coach and some kids people will get over it pretty quick. Style of play more important to me than the players.

While I agree, players like Koz and Trac don't come around often at the MFC. My kids for instance would lose instant interest in the club with Koz gone. Sack the coach and keep the players and problem possibly solved

 

[Toump Ass]

Imagine how good CASEY is gonna be with Trac and Koz running around.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Meh, if we have a different coach and some kids people will get over it pretty quick. Style of play more important to me than the players.

Big If and a lot of people are fed up with this rabble. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

If only Tassie was introduced a lot sooner.

 

[Grimey Sylvia]

Goodwin is probably licking his lips with our two most exciting players wanting to leave, he's about to roll out the most dour and unwatchable team in football history in 2025.

Sparrow, Viney and Laurie in the midfield round 1. LFG

Sparrow, billings and Laurie in there for round 2 with fullerton after Gawn and Viney hurts their backs carrying the whole team.

 

[Mich0]

Since when the **** is Sparrow considered a leader. No wonder Trac wants out.

 

[Headless]

This is fine.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

While I agree, players like Koz and Trac don't come around often at the MFC. My kids for instance would lose instant interest in the club with Koz gone. Sack the coach and keep the players and problem possibly solved

When Jako left when I was younger I was crushed, same with Farmer, but I got over it pretty quick, always seems worse than it really is at the time. Players come and go, its the way of the world.

 

[poorboy32]

Time to board the club up sell the gym equipment, laptops and anything we can make a dollar from give the members a final dividend call it quits.

 

[Proper Gander]

Didn’t someone say Koz partners family were Vic based? His manager re-affirmed the club just last week. Sounds like Trac is influencing others.

Like Trac even needs to?

The club is rooted for some time. Players who want to shine are totally going to see whether their might be a better world out there for them where they can get the best from themselves and even entertain us with their brilliance.

Koz is a gem and if he thinks he can do his best elsewhere, it’s his choice to make.

 

[matsta1975]

Still more to come the club sat on its hands and has been left behind.
The coach and his advisers are stuck in the past.

 

[Bluelegs]

Still more to come the club sat on its hands and has been left behind.
The coach and his advisers are stuck in the past.

Gale quoted Yze when he got to Richmond.

"If you live in the past you die in the present."

Don't think it was the first time he had used that line.

 

[dazzledavey36]

Still more to come the club sat on its hands and has been left behind.
The coach and his advisers are stuck in the past.

I know you.. you've got connections with other recruiters.

Who are Melbourne liking from the draft?

 

[Frank Grimes]

Richmond are the only big Vic club with the draft capital to appease the Dees demands and to suit brand Petracca and his wish to play in front of big crowds rolls eyes to get the deal done.

How about Pick 6, which Richmond will get from GC as comp for Daniel Rioli, as well as Tom Lynch to the Dees for 'the Brand'?.

As good a player Patracca is, he and Richmond is not a good fit right now.

Richmond are just starting a rebuild and need picks more than an established good player. Patracca will want to go to a big club that could have a shot for a flag in the next 4 years, not spend his time in a lengthy rebuild.

Carlton are probably the best fit right now, but they will need capital to do a trade and the salary cap room to do that. Based on reports/speculations McKay would be a part of the deal, but it's iffy if he wants to go or if Carlton are interested in trading McKay.

My guess at the moment is Patracca will stay at Melbourne.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Gale quoted Yze when he got to Richmond.

"If you live in the past you die in the present."

Don't think it was the first time he had used that line.

Who wouldn't like him at the helm of a footy club. I love Brendan Gale.

 

[Daemon]

Who wouldn't like him at the helm of a footy club. I love Brendan Gale.

So glad he's coming to Tassie. Now to get a decent coach to go alongside him.

 

[Bluelegs]

Petracca airs grievances in private meeting of Dees leaders

Christian Petracca took aim at the culture of the Melbourne Football Club in a three-hour meeting of the Demons’ on-field leaders on Saturday, venting his disappointment that key people at the club had not supported him enough in the two-week period that followed his life-threatening football injury.

The meeting at a wine bar owned by Melbourne captain Max Gawn – Motor, in Hawthorn – was not arranged specifically because of the furore surrounding Petracca, who has made it clear he wants to be traded to a rival Victorian club despite having five years remaining on his contract, but it provided a forum for the superstar Demon to air his grievances with the club.

According to a source with knowledge of the meeting, who would not be identified because it was a private gathering, the meeting ended about 3pm with hugs, handshakes and high-fives, but left those in attendance with little confidence that Petracca will be a Melbourne player in 2025.

Gawn, vice captain Jack Viney, Tom Sparrow and Petracca were at the restaurant. Star defender Jake Lever would have been in attendance but was ill (he missed the round 24 loss to Collingwood the night before due to gastro).

Petracca’s concerns included his belief that Melbourne people did not check in with him enough in the aftermath of his King’s Birthday injury, the pending departure of teammate Alex Neal-Bullen, and previous culture issues.

Three teammates, who have spoken to this masthead on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic, remain concerned that while Petracca’s grievances have now been aired several times to the players, they are not sure how the problems can be fixed.

The pending departure of another premiership player, Neal-Bullen, was another talking point, with Petracca suggesting this could have been avoided if the environment was better at the Dees.

However, Neal-Bullen has told the club he would like to return home to South Australia for family reasons.

Saturday’s was one of several meetings that Petracca has had with teammates and leaders, but they have done little to sway his view that he wants to play for a rival Melbourne powerhouse club in 2025.

The 28-year-old reiterated his position in his exit review meeting on Monday, although he has not formally requested a trade.

He has told coach Simon Goodwin and other senior figures that he is frustrated with continuously playing in front of small crowds.

In two of Melbourne’s last three home games, the crowds have been 16,246 (against Greater Western Sydney) and 17,867 (against Port Adelaide).

He has also told them that representing a larger club could increase his brand and marketability. Petracca’s representatives have denied that personal brand issues are having any impact on his decision-making.

Petracca was seriously injured when an accidental knee from Collingwood captain Darcy Moore on King’s Birthday left him with broken ribs, a punctured lung and a lacerated spleen.

The injuries left him fighting for his life, and he has since shared details of the harrowing surgery from which he recovered in the intensive care unit.

“It’s been really, really tough. Probably the most traumatic thing I’ve experienced in my life,” Petracca told The Howie Games podcast released this week.

“The trauma of everything … it’s actually not necessarily the incident of it, it’s the aftermath of it...

“Bella [Petracca’s partner] came to the ICU the next day and basically said that at three in the morning … we got the number off the surgeon because he called to say you might not make it, basically. He’s in critical condition.”

Petracca has said it was his decision to return to the field after he was hurt, and backed his care from the Melbourne doctors. However, according to several teammates, he believes he was not contacted enough in the fortnight following the collision.

Collingwood ruckman Mason Cox, who suffered a similar – albeit nowhere near as serious – spleen injury in the previous season, reached out to offer the name of the specialist he saw during his rehabilitation.

Moore, who is a friend of Petracca’s, also checked in on him.

Goodwin, CEO Gary Pert and football boss Alan Richardson have vehemently defended the club’s culture, privately and publicly.

But Petracca has expressed frustration over previous off-field issues including the club’s handling of Clayton Oliver and the controversy surrounding teammate Joel Smith, who is facing a two-year ban and remains provisionally suspended for testing positive to cocaine after the club’s round 23 match last year against Hawthorn.

However, there are frustrations with Petracca, too.

Several players were disappointed at the level of Petracca’s social media activity while on holiday in Noosa, when the Demons were fighting to stay in finals contention.

Carlton remain an interested party in the evolving Petracca situation.

Any potential trade involving a contracted Blues player will be put on hold as the team prepares for an elimination final against the Brisbane Lions next Saturday, according to two club sources not prepared to publicly discuss the issue.

But the club has internally raised the significance of Petracca’s availability and is willing to act aggressively to pursue a deal.

Petracca and his management declined to comment.

Does every ****wit at this club have someone from the media on speed dial?