Rumour Speculation, Rumours, Lies Thread 2025

[Scorpus]

Rumour Summary October 1st

• Adelaide expects a decision from Christian Petracca
  3

  Christian Petracca

  Age

  30

  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
  10

  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)

 

[1990crow]

I don’t know who I want more out of Zac Bailey or Petracca.

Zac Bailey was awesome tonight !

Both.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

I don’t know who I want more out of Zac Bailey or Petracca.

Zac Bailey was awesome tonight !

Bailey easily.

 

[PeterSalt]

I don’t know who I want more out of Zac Bailey or Petracca.

Zac Bailey was awesome tonight !

Zac Bailey

 

[Thaiphoon23]

I don’t know who I want more out of Zac Bailey or Petracca.

Zac Bailey was awesome tonight !

My vote is to go all in on bailey this year

 

[Go the Guts]

I don’t know who I want more out of Zac Bailey or Petracca.

Zac Bailey was awesome tonight !

There’s very little chance we get Bailey. But him over Petracca every day of the week.

 

[Trigger13]

Is this legit a place?

Haha yup it actually is. I didn’t want it share it because it sounds so far fetched.

 

[Cromulant]

Bailey easily.

Yeah and I dont wanna wait a year.

 

[Go the Guts]

Influenza A this year has been absolutely horrendous. Floored my healthy 24 year old for three weeks!

Exactly. Nuffies on here discounting the flu as if it’s a sniffle have zero understanding of how much it can shut your body down for weeks on end. Is absolutely possible it was a major reason why we were so flat during finals.

 

[Danger in Texas]

Bailey would be the better get

But there is a less than zero chance that’s happening this year

 

[Scorpus]

Bailey would be the better get

But there is a less than zero chance that’s happening this year

There is no way Brisbane will release him while they're in the premiership window

 

[Multiballz]

Exactly. Nuffies on here discounting the flu as if it’s a sniffle have zero understanding of how much it can shut your body down for weeks on end. Is absolutely possible it was a major reason why we were so flat during finals.

"The Flu" translates to every sniffle known to man these days.
Lets be real, we werent that flat.

 

[Carmo]

There is no way Brisbane will release him while they're in the premiership window

I agree with the sentiment but if not him, then who do we have or first pick quarantined for ( one of the ITKs said this)?

I guess it could be for the draft.

 

[huludicidal]

Exactly. Nuffies on here discounting the flu as if it’s a sniffle have zero understanding of how much it can shut your body down for weeks on end. Is absolutely possible it was a major reason why we were so flat during finals.

Why stop at the flu? It’s also possible that the entire team had parvovirus or hepatitis. There is zero evidence that any crows player had the flu. This is nothing more than a made up coping mechanism.

There is ample evidence that before the finals even began, we were in poor form, including creeping over the line in games against two of the worst sides in history.

There is ample evidence that our midfield was regularly annihilated throughout the season by good, average and poor sides, and struggled to get their hands on the ball with any regularity.

There is also ample evidence of players and coaches panicking under finals pressure and making terrible decisions.

If people want to blame a phantom influenza outbreak, that magically impacted the Adelaide crows and zero other teams in the league during a finals campaign, and ignore the fact that Brisbane just made a GF with an injury-ravaged list (including a multiple Brownlow winner) and yet another key in-game injury in the prelim, and the Pies smashed us with several of their key players out whilst coming off a horror stretch of form of their own, then that’s fine. I wonder how we would’ve gone in those games if they were away from home?


Illness or no illness, Rankine or no Rankine, we are way off a grand final, and the teams who annihilated us when it mattered weren’t good enough to make one either, which speaks volumes.

 

[jenny61_99]

Why stop at the flu? It’s also possible that the entire team had parvovirus or hepatitis. There is zero evidence that any crows player had the flu. This is nothing more than a made up coping mechanism.

There is ample evidence that before the finals even began, we were in poor form, including creeping over the line in games against two of the worst sides in history.

There is ample evidence that our midfield was regularly annihilated throughout the season by good, average and poor sides, and struggled to get their hands on the ball with any regularity.

There is also ample evidence of players and coaches panicking under finals pressure and making terrible decisions.

If people want to blame a phantom influenza outbreak, that magically impacted the Adelaide crows and zero other teams in the league during a finals campaign, and ignore the fact that Brisbane just made a GF with an injury-ravaged list (including a multiple Brownlow winner) and yet another key in-game injury in the prelim, and the Pies smashed us with several of their key players out whilst coming off a horror stretch of form of their own, then that’s fine. I wonder how we would’ve gone in those games if they were away from home?


Illness or no illness, Rankine or no Rankine, we are way off a grand final, and the teams who annihilated us when it mattered weren’t good enough to make one either, which speaks volumes.

There was evidence there was illness in the group from interviews with Tex Nicks Dawson and laird who all sounded crook.

 

[huludicidal]

There was evidence there was illness in the group from interviews with Tex Nicks Dawson and laird who all sounded crook.

Illness is not the flu. That’s the entire point of the discussion.

 

[The Karma Bus]

There was evidence there was illness in the group from interviews with Tex Nicks Dawson and laird who all sounded crook.

They also knew that everyone was aware and could tell so they just said yeah it's going through but we're all good and not using it as any excuse.

 

[Apsaalooke]

The chance of a mini epidemic of parvo or hepatitis A in the majority of the team is vanishingly small. Influenza however is v contagious and debilitating but if that was the case then the club is negligent for not vaccinating all or at least most of the squad - highly unlikely this is the case. RSV is a possibility though and quite virulent - there is a vaccine for this but it’s still quite expensive and not widely used yet.

 

[radiojake]

I got married the weekend of the North Melbourne game

My folks and an aunt and uncle drove over from the Yorke Peninsula for it

My mum ended up being crook as a dog, soldiered on during the wedding night but then dropped like a deck of cards and was bed ridden for the rest of her time in Melbourne

Mum, my Aunt and my Uncle all ended up getting smashed by it, and my brother (who was down from Brisbane but stayed with my mum) also went down with it (somehow Dad avoided it - just felt a bit flat but otherwise fine)

Mum tested pos for Influenza A

Luckily I didn't get it from her, but it was sad as she was supposed to stay at our place on her final night but she was so sick we just paid for another night in the accom she was already in

Obviously the bug was brought over from Adelaide - if the players had any of that it wouldn't have been fun

 

[huludicidal]

The chance of a mini epidemic of parvo or hepatitis A in the majority of the team is vanishingly small. Influenza however is v contagious and debilitating but if that was the case then the club is negligent for not vaccinating all or at least most of the squad - highly unlikely this is the case. RSV is a possibility though and quite virulent - there is a vaccine for this but it’s still quite expensive and not widely used yet.

Completely agree re the Flu Vax - there is a 0% chance the players wouldn’t have been vaccinated against Influenza A and B.

Honestly I can’t believe this is even being discussed. We weren’t good enough to make a GF and that fact was absolutely nothing to do with an illness, end of discussion. Our midfield is horrendous. West Coast, who went 1-22 this season, led for the vast majority of the day against us. North Melbourne’s midfield annihilated us. The Pies midfield annihilated us in the minor round game where we inexplicably beat them with 34 less inside 50s. There’s a clear pattern.

Lions and Cats clearly the best two teams in it, and them playing off in the GF was really the obvious prediction prior to the finals series even beginning. Should be a great contest next week.

 

[LoBu]

You’re usually good with this stuff so not doubting you, but someone else in this thread mentioned he was watching the game last night at a pub in Sydney?

If that was me, I didn't say which day and just repeating what was on the Sydney thread

 

[jackster83]

Exactly. Nuffies on here discounting the flu as if it’s a sniffle have zero understanding of how much it can shut your body down for weeks on end. Is absolutely possible it was a major reason why we were so flat during finals.

Except we were flat for the three weeks leading into the finals.

The truth is we were worked out.

After the Hawks game, we were suddenly the flag favourites and opposition teams started doing their homework on how to stop us.

 

[Redline]

One of the more sensible trades floated on the Dees board


Dees give - Trac, pick 23
Crows give - Picks 14, 41, 48, Future 1st
Suns give - Flanders, Pick 31

Dees get - Flanders, pick 14
Crows get - Trac, pick 31
Suns get - 23, 41, 48 (Equiv pick 15 in points), Crows future 1st

If you are a list manager at another club our 1st round next year would be very appealing.

I think it's too much

 

[MrBarry]

Illness is not the flu.

This makes zero sense, the flu is a form of illness.

 

[MrBarry]

Except we were flat for the three weeks leading into the finals.

The truth is we were worked out.

After the Hawks game, we were suddenly the flag favourites and opposition teams started doing their homework on how to stop us.

I don't agree, I think there was a noticeable drop in intensity from our team after the Hawthorn game and it was less about teams 'working us out'.

 

[Slim258]

Close, but we need more

Coaches are going to waste this list

Anyone know when Burns’ contract is up?
He’s more useless than Nicks