Rumour Speculation, Rumours, Lies Thread 2025

[Scorpus]

Rumour Summary October 1st

• Adelaide expects a decision from Christian Petracca
  5

  Christian Petracca

  Age

  29

  Ht

  187cm

  Wt

  94kg

  Pos.

  M/F

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  19.4

  5star

  K

  9.5

  4star

  HB

  9.8

  5star

  M

  3.5

  4star

  T

  3.0

  5star

  CL

  2.5

  4star

  D

  24.4

  5star

  K

  10.4

  4star

  HB

  14.0

  5star

  M

  3.5

  3star

  T

  3.6

  4star

  CL

  3.4

  4star

  D

  19.0

  5star

  K

  7.8

  3star

  HB

  11.2

  5star

  M

  3.0

  3star

  T

  3.8

  5star

  CL

  2.0

  4star

  by Saturday, according to a poster (link)
• Christian Petracca's decision between Adelaide and Gold Coast is a 50/50, according to Tom Morris (link)
• Taylor Walker will sign a one-year contract extension, according to Josh Money (link)
• Adelaide have been working on the Petracca trade for months, compared to Gold Coast who have joined the race more recently, according to a poster (link)
• Christian Petracca is meeting with Gold Coast in person (link)

Rumour Summary October 2nd

• Melbourne are open to trading Clayton Oliver
  13

  Clayton Oliver

  Age

  28

  Ht

  189cm

  Wt

  88kg

  Pos.

  Mid

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  27.8

  5star

  K

  9.5

  4star

  HB

  18.4

  5star

  M

  3.2

  3star

  T

  6.3

  5star

  CL

  6.3

  5star

  D

  25.1

  5star

  K

  11.1

  4star

  HB

  14.0

  5star

  M

  3.6

  4star

  T

  5.6

  5star

  CL

  5.9

  5star

  D

  19.2

  5star

  K

  4.6

  2star

  HB

  14.6

  5star

  M

  2.0

  3star

  T

  4.4

  5star

  CL

  3.8

  5star

  , according to Sam Edmund (link)
• Clayton Oliver expects to be told to explore his trade options, according to Tom Morris (link)

 

[WaynesWorld19]

 

[fossilllCrow]

Do we think we have any back up plans then? If we don’t get trac, very least try for Cumming or Sharp.

 

[pjcrows]

We're the stalking horse again.

 

[George CantStandYa]

You just know he is going to go the Suns right? A mid-field of Rowell, Anderson and Petrecca..with Elliott and King in the forward line, is going to be incredibly hard to stop...

Coached by Hardwick v Nicks

 

[1970crow]

I really dont think we'll be playing Tex more than we played Smith, probably less.

How many SANFL games do you reckon Tex is going to be playing?

 

[ams4crows]

You just know he is going to go the Suns right? A mid-field of Rowell, Anderson and Petrecca..with Elliott and King in the forward line, is going to be incredibly hard to stop...

Almost Premiership favourites

 

[Betts are off]

With the Trac visit to the GCS facility incoming, I was curious about what their home base was actually like. What I could find was an article from 2017 about their $22M facility turning them into a professional club. I couldn't see anything about any notable improvements since then online.

I wonder how that will compare to our 2027 facility with the hefty budget of $105M for Brand Petracca.

 

[Thrillthorpe7]

Scores from stoppage is related to Rankine being a gun stoppage player. Obviously it has nothing to do with Tex which is what I said.
I don't have a narrative, it's obvious when watching games. I'd have to rematch some, but from memory Darcy Moore took plenty of intercept marks while on him.

Tex has never been the 1 on 1 marking guy, it's what we have Thilthorpe for. He's always been an average contested mark. What he's elite at (and still is) is leading up at the ball by either reading it better than his opponent, or elite ball movement up the field.

We made Frampton look like an elite defender in that first final with our delivery to the forwards, doesn't mean Thilthorpe is cooked.

 

[pjcrows]

How many SANFL games do you reckon Tex is going to be playing?

0.

 

[Crow till I die]

Almost Premiership favourites

Until you look at the Lions midfield - W Ashcroft, L Ashcroft, L Neale, H McLuggage, Annable (top 5 draft pick mid this year), Z Bailey. Kicking to Oscar Allen, Charlie Cameron, Lohman, Morris......

 

[maxlilly]

Coached by Hardwick v Nicks

It doesn't appear to be a hard choice.
Hopefully there are other factors to be considered

 

[1970crow]

Scores from stoppage is related to Rankine being a gun stoppage player. Obviously it has nothing to do with Tex which is what I said.
I don't have a narrative, it's obvious when watching games. I'd have to rematch some, but from memory Darcy Moore took plenty of intercept marks while on him.

To add to that, Tex is still the primary target in our forward entries. We haven't adjusted for his decreased ability to compete for ball that's not directed near perfectly. Anything requiring a change of movement is an easy turnover and pressureless rebound for the opposition. And yet time after time, we keep targetting Tex. Fog is all but ignored and TT gets the high dump kicks. And it's not an accident, that's our forward strategy, TT's the dump guy, Tex is the target and everyone else is a decoy. Every now and again that's not available and we try and hit someone else up on a lead, but that's not the design, we don't have a bunch of dangerous forwards creating one on one options and selecting the best, we look for Tex or dump to TT.

 

[1970crow]

It's supporter emotion .....buyer & seller, having supporters feel their club is a) doing everything to improve b) driving hard bargains

Just look at this thread, which every Club board has the equal of ......and every supporter thinking the other Clubs supports are bat shit crazy

I was responding to a post that was loosely quoting Garry Lyon.

 

[Peter Doherty]

You just know he is going to go the Suns right? A mid-field of Rowell, Anderson and Petrecca..with Elliott and King in the forward line, is going to be incredibly hard to stop...

They ****ing played Laird in there in the finals.

Swap Laird and Berry for Petracca and Rankine and ours with Petracca, Dawson and Rankine is looking better. With Draper and Curtin to come.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Extra 2 years .....thank God

 

[WaynesWorld19]

They ****ing played Laird in there in the finals.

Swap Laird and Berry for Petracca and Rankine and ours with Petracca, Dawson and Rankine is looking better. With Draper and Curtin to come.

Was an act of desperation .....the Coaches knew they had a big issue

 

[Mutineer]

Until you look at the Lions midfield - W Ashcroft, L Ashcroft, L Neale, H McLuggage, Annable (top 5 draft pick mid this year), Z Bailey. Kicking to Oscar Allen, Charlie Cameron, Lohman, Morris......

You've missed inside/outside mid Sam Marshall in that midfield who is going to be a very good player for a very long time.

 

[JPetro83]

Coached by Hardwick v Nicks

Depends how much work ANB has done convincing Petracca that the Adelaide Footy club is the right fit

 

[relapse]

I don't get why so much emotion is involved. We look at the player and make a determination on what we think we will pay in terms of draft picks. We provide that to the player's agent and it's up to them whether they risk the player being spotted at adelaide airport with missus and themselves. We have no control over what the other club does, if they make unreasonable demands then that's on them, not us.

Garry Lyon is obviously emotionally invested with Melbourne as a supporter and I'm guessing is trying to use his position to drive a narrative over Petracca's trade value.

To me it reeks of sour grapes from Lyon.

 

[Cromulant]

How many SANFL games do you reckon Tex is going to be playing?

10 or so.

 

[1970crow]

Depends how much work ANB has done convincing Petracca that the Adelaide Footy club is the right fit

Let's just hope Petracca didn't ask him anything about his views on our midfield strategy and coaching. Hopefully Trac wants to come here to play half back.

 

[jackster83]

You've missed inside/outside mid Sam Marshall in that midfield who is going to be a very good player for a very long time.

Jaspa Fletcher also once he starts getting midfield minutes.

 

[Crow till I die]

You've missed inside/outside mid Sam Marshall in that midfield who is going to be a very good player for a very long time.

I also forgot Cam Rayner and Hipwood forward of the ball...the list goes ever onwards

 

[Slim258]

Let's just hope Petracca didn't ask him anything about his views on our midfield strategy and coaching. Hopefully Trac wants to come here to play half back.

Can't play Half Back, thats where Laird plays until the games are important and we can move him into the midfield

 

[AFCCroweater]

It doesn't appear to be a hard choice.
Hopefully there are other factors to be considered

If Trac wants to soak up on rays on the Gold Coast and play for an expansion club in front of 10-15k a week in a non-footy state cruising through a mid/forward rotation at his age then no worries. Good luck to him - wouldn’t want to pay huge amounts of salary and trade collateral if he’s committed to that mindset. Also good luck with JUH….

Hopefully he’s the consummate professional and winner that everyone says he is and wants to play for a big club in a big footy state. I think ANB, and to a lesser extent Burgo (even though he’s going), will be huge in convincing him that the AFC are what he wants. The food/wine opportunities for his off-field brand will be huge in Adelaide as well.