Rumour Speculation, Rumours, Lies Thread 2026 - Part 2

[Cromulant]

C4 said the Suns a while back. They were definitely not late to the race.

Sounds like we walked away......

 

[adelaidecrows]

Club cronies in February: a game changer, this guy's going to be a superstar

Club cronies in August: we could never play this guy this year, he's actually very bad at football, it would ruin the integrity of our entire club to allow him to play AFL.

Well considering Smith, Murphy got games this year. One can only assume Jones and Sholl will play most games next year as the next most senior players to step up.

 

[Betts are off]

Oh?

Walked Away. Thats interesting

 

[CrowToon]

The silver lining here is that it avoids the club paying stupid overs.

Lets hope something else is in the fires for the midfield.

I for one would give Oliver a chance at a fresh start.

I guess anything else would be pretty left field.

 

[adelaidecrows]

We decided not to trade - dont think that fits your narrative

Oh the Crows pulled out?

just saw the tweet.

 

[Cromulant]

Well considering Smith, Murphy got games this year. One can only assume Jones and Sholl will play most games next year as the next most senior players to step up.

Not sure Sholl will be here.

 

[Cromulant]

Oh the Crows pulled out?

According to Twomey

 

[Huntercrow]

Round 1 at Gold Coast stadium.........
Sunday arvo in front of 9000 bogans in shorts and thongs. 35 deg C,

Trac on a reduced pre season due to food poisoning, starting on the bench as 4th Mid alongside JUH.
Versus (who else) Melbourne .....100/1 rank outsiders.

I'll be glued to my TV.

 

[bigman]

We decided not to trade - dont think that fits your narrative

Narratives can be influenced by the leakers themselves, in this case likely the club.

Could easily be a way to save face.

 

[pjcrows]

"Crows decided to walk away"

Yeah when they realised he wasn't coming

Why would we walk away? We've got no midfield.

 

[CrowToon]

Walked Away. Thats interesting

Saving face. They lost.

Because otherwise inviting Petracca over to tour and then 'walking away' is pretty low.

 

[Scorpus]

Imagine having the club's vision for success sold to you by Damien Hardwick, who's done it all before, compared to Matthew Nicks

Matthew Nicks

Age

50

Ht

187cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

9.4

4star

HB

4.2

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

6.6

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

2.2

2star

M

2.2

3star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.4

3star

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

"Crows decided to walk away"

Yeah when they reali he wasn't coming

Why would we walk away? We've got no midfield.

That's our story and we're sticking with it

 

[Crow till I die]

Well we know now

In reality, its been on the cards for a while

 

[Slim258]

Happy we had a crack at a big name but as we know drawing a non-South Australian to Adelaide is always an up hill battle.
We have been very active in the last few trade weeks and Silvers has reiterated that again throughout the year.
No doubt there are other things being worked out, or at least I hope.

The club has publicly identified a gap in the midfield, less classy options than Petracca are out there, that will cost a lot less but would still improve us.

Trade period hasn't even begun yet, so lets not lose our minds yet.

 

[Scorpus]

Laughable lie to suggest we walked away

Surely no one is buying that

 

[adelaidecrows]

Narratives can be influenced by the leakers themselves, in this case likely the club.

Could easily be a way to save face.

The club said a week ago it wasnt going to sell the farm for Petracca. So perhaps the club felt the demons were going to be unreasonable and it would damage our other plans. He is 30! not a great loss tbh.

 

[moses]

Walked Away. Thats interesting

Sounds like we weren't willing to cough up what Melbourne were asking. Oh well

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I think our messaging re Petracca is more to do with publicly broadcasting that we are prepared to walk away

Ie Melbourne can't ask for anything ridiculous

Well so much for that take. I stand corrected

Our messaging was to placate fans

We walked away. It wasn't that Petracca didn't rate our club / coach / future prospects as compared to other options.

 

[UcantCme]

Melbourne FC always wanted to deal with GC

Trac always wanted out of Melb

Wonder how much of this played into the decision - the easiest path to a new club

 

[Cromulant]

Saving face. They lost.

Because otherwise inviting Petracca over to tour and then 'walking away' is pretty low.

He did a medical.

 

[Slim258]

Laughable lie to suggest we walked away

Surely no one is buying that

For a moderator, I thought you would've been a lot more emotionally impartial.

For all we know, Dees are asking for a top 10 pick and another first round pick - which is quite possibly more than we would want to offer anyway

 

[Cromulant]

Narratives can be influenced by the leakers themselves, in this case likely the club.

Could easily be a way to save face.

Speaking of saving face.... man you're trying hard.

 

[Scorpus]

The club said a week ago it wasnt going to sell the farm for Petracca. So perhaps the club felt the demons were going to be unreasonable and it would damage our other plans. He is 30! not a great loss tbh.

Not a great loss?

Come on dude. Yeah he's 30, he probably only has a few years of football left and he's not worth three first round picks. But he would have been massive for our premiership window

 

[adelaidecrows]

Laughable lie to suggest we walked away

Surely no one is buying that

If Twomey got it, it maybe coming from Petracca or Melbourne not us. It is logical to assume that the club asked petracca to hold his decision making until they had a chance to speak to Melbourne over trade expectations.