Player Watch #5: Christian Petracca – Norm Smith Medallist, 4x All-Australian and 2x Best and Fairest (re-commits to Melbourne)

[Gysberts2Bate]

Pick 10?

Mahoney is a wizard.

We gave up the equivalent of pick 6 for him alone, which incidentally is what we paid for May.

How we’ve assembled the GOAT backline in the history of the game:

• The equivalent of pick 3 (10 in 2017 and 16 in 2018) for Lever and Petty.
• Pick 2 (2013) for Salem, as well as Tyson (2014 - 2018) + Preuss (2019 - 2020) + B Brown (2021 onwards).
• A mid second round pick (2015) for Hibberd
• Tomlinson as a free agent
• Hunt for pick 53 (2013)
• Rivers for pick 32 (2019 after academies)

 

[Grimesy87]

We gave up the equivalent of pick 6 for him alone, which incidentally is what we paid for May.

How we’ve assembled the GOAT backline in the history of the game:

• The equivalent of pick 3 for Lever and Petty.
• Pick 2 for Salem, as well as Tyson (2014 - 2018) + Preuss (2019 - 2020) + B Brown (2021 onwards).
• A mid second round pick for Hibberd
• Tomlinson as a free agent
• Hunt for pick 53
• Rivers for pick 32 (after academies)

But we ended up with Harry petty too out of the lever trade, and he might be the biggest goat out of all these other goats?

The king goat if you like. Billy petty

A buck amongst the kids.

 

[pjfairbairn]

But what did we pay for Joel Smith? Whaaaaaaat?

 

[Crusty Demon]

I'll be surprised if Trac gets up this week..

 

[ImissFrosty]

But what did we pay for Joel Smith? Whaaaaaaat?

We take the piss out of him but just wait, he'll be good, remember how late he started and all the injuries.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

We take the piss out of him but just wait, he'll be good, remember how late he started and all the injuries.

Still getting injured unfortunately. Doubt he survives list cuts this year, can't see him breaking into the side anytime soon.

 

[schmuttt]

I'll be surprised if Trac gets up this week..

Why? They already cleared him earlier in the week.

 

[ImissFrosty]

Still getting injured unfortunately. Doubt he survives list cuts this year, can't see him breaking into the side anytime soon.

Yeah, won't play this year. But I really hope he gets rookie listed and can put a full preseason together.

 

[Crusty Demon]

Why? They already cleared him earlier in the week.

You Can't clear a corky like that a day or two after it happens. That wasn't a minor one. I've had a corky like that before and had a few weeks off. It looked bad. Rumblings around the more the week moves on that he is very doubtful. Would not be surprised to see him a late out..

 

[schmuttt]

You Can't clear a corky like that a day or two after it happens. That wasn't a minor one. I've had a corky like that before and had a few weeks off. It looked bad. Rumblings around the more the week moves on that he is very doubtful. Would not be surprised to see him a late out..

I'm not saying he won't be a late out but I haven't seen any rumblings anywhere and apparently he trained fine.

 

[Bluelegs]

I'm not saying he won't be a late out but I haven't seen any rumblings anywhere and apparently he trained fine.

I'm rumbling.

 

[Daemon]

Is he playing or not? Rumblings are one thing, is there anyone actually here in the know and not just speculating?

 

[schmuttt]

Is he playing or not? Rumblings are one thing, is there anyone actually here in the know and not just speculating?

To be fair to Crusty Demon I've just seen SEN say a couple hours ago he was in doubt.

 

[Crusty Demon]

Didn't Plugger miss months with a bad corky back in the day? Not saying Trac will miss, but it looked like a bad one.

 

[Grimesy87]

To be fair to Crusty Demon I've just seen SEN say a couple hours ago he was in doubt.

We could rest clarry, trac, Salem, jordon, kosi and gawn but still win.

Carlton are poopoo

*Not responsible if Melbourne rest clarry, trac, Salem, Jordon, kosi and gawn and then lose.

 

[Headless]

We could rest clarry, trac, Salem, jordon, kosi and gawn but still win.

Carlton are poopoo

*Not responsible if Melbourne rest clarry, trac, Salem, Jordon, kosi and gawn and then lose.

Oh no.

 

[NorthcoteDee]

Agree with other posters that Trac won't play this week.

 

[Topkent]

Agree with other posters that Trac won't play this week.

Cheers Christian

 

[adonski]

He was at the captains run

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

How Melbourne would it be for a star player to miss a game because of a collision which happened literally on the final siren lmao

 

[AmericanAFL]

How Melbourne would it be for a star player to miss a game because of a collision which happened literally on the final siren lmao

When May returned as quickly as he did from a broken orbital bone, I said to myself “okay I got it... these guys are hockey players.” But if Trac misses this game I will be forced to retract that.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

When May returned as quickly as he did from a broken orbital bone, I said to myself “okay I got it... these guys are hockey players.” But if Trac misses this game I will be forced to retract that.

Well it’s harder to get a contusion when you’re wearing pads

 

[AmericanAFL]

Well it’s harder to get a contusion when you’re wearing pads

There’s no shame in it mate. Most Canadians are tough as nails.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

There’s no shame in it mate. Most Canadians are tough as nails.

There’s no shame in anything but the injury profiles for Australian sports are pretty different to most others, esp North American ones

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

How Melbourne would it be for a star player to miss a game because of a collision which happened literally on the final siren lmao

Another moment of Trac not being clutch enough to avoid it.