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Speaker 1: Jason Lauren, you're on the air with Jason Lauren. Clin's

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Speaker 1: here from the newsroom as well. This is Noble one

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Speaker 1: hundred and we have major dramas going on at the D's.

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Speaker 1: Clint's gonnaway we do.

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Speaker 2: It involves a favorite in Red and Blue, a Norm

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Speaker 2: Smith medallist Premiership player and our friend, Christian Petrarca. So

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Speaker 2: yesterday he reportedly told the Melbourne Football Club that he

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Speaker 2: wants out, he wants to play elsewhere in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Now, I want to know how how we know that exactly.

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Speaker 1: Tom Morris is the chief footy reporter at Channel nine.

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Speaker 2: He broke this story initially he joins us from obviously

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Speaker 2: Channel Night and in his role at se N Good

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Speaker 2: morning to you, Tommy.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Clint, Jason Lauren, Tom, good morning with a heavy

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Speaker 3: It's with a heavy heart, isn't it that we talk

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Speaker 3: about Christopher Trarca in this way? But we need to

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Speaker 3: because it could be the biggest footy story in some years.

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Speaker 1: I've got mixed feelings about it because I'm a bit

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Speaker 1: like I don't think he's going about it the right way.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, there's two sides.

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Speaker 1: To every story. He's obviously got his reasons he wants out.

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Speaker 1: How well do or how accurate is the details of

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Speaker 1: him wanting out? How do you know?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Accurate? Yep. He's wanted out for some time now.

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Speaker 3: He wants to play for another club next year. The

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Speaker 3: big question that had to be answered over the last

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Speaker 3: few days was not whether he wanted out or not,

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Speaker 3: whether he was brave enough and courageous enough to say

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Speaker 3: to the club to say I want to play for

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Speaker 3: another club. There's one thing to think it. There's lots

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Speaker 3: of players every year that would think, yeah, I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: mind playing elsewhere, I wouldn't mind breaking my contract. I prefer

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Speaker 3: to do it this or that. But to actually walk

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Speaker 3: into the club and say it is a whole other level,

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Speaker 3: because he has to be prepared that Melbourne says back

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Speaker 3: to him, you're not going anywhere, and then he has

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Speaker 3: to be prepared that at the start of pre season

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Speaker 3: training he walks back into the club and has to

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Speaker 3: confront his teammates. So that's why it's a brave call

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Speaker 3: for him to take it this way. It's a nuclear option,

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Speaker 3: but he clearly feels as if there's no other scenario.

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Speaker 3: That can make him the player that he wants to be.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Tom, I mean he's gone in and said that

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Speaker 4: to the club. But there's this story floating around as

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Speaker 4: well that they are all I don't know if it

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Speaker 4: was an official function or the D'SE players were all

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Speaker 4: at something together the other day and a few people

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Speaker 4: gave him the cold shoulder and have told him they're

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Speaker 4: not very impressed. So how does that even look moving

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Speaker 4: forward if he does have to stay.

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Speaker 3: Oh, such a good question, because is that what happened?

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Speaker 3: Do you know that?

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Speaker 4: Is that what happened on Saturday night?

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Speaker 3: Saturday night, there's a club function, And my understanding is that, yeah,

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Speaker 3: there is a little bit tension in the playing group,

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Speaker 3: clearly not just from players towards Christian, but also from

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Speaker 3: Christian towards players like it does work both ways, And

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Speaker 3: clearly players who are really loyal to the club and

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Speaker 3: want the best of the club see the demons being

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Speaker 3: crawled through the mud and don't like what's happening at

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Speaker 3: the moment. So that's entirely understandable that there is that friction.

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Speaker 3: But there is countless examples of players who want out

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Speaker 3: that then don't get out and get back to the

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Speaker 3: club and have to eat humble pie and continue on

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Speaker 3: their careers. But it's so volatile at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: he has pressed this nuclear button that makes it really

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Speaker 3: hard to see how it can come back into Melbourne

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Speaker 3: and continue on his career as it was before.

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Speaker 2: So Tom, you reported this a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: You told Melbourne that he was disgruntled Melbourne being the city,

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Speaker 2: not the football club, and probably the football club as well.

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Speaker 2: We've watched over the last few weeks this narrative change.

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Speaker 2: It's got to a point now where I firmly believe

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Speaker 2: and I think you have of the same belief, that

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Speaker 2: he more likely than not won't be playing at Melbourne

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Speaker 2: next year. Are you of that view?

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Speaker 3: I just don't know exactly what Melbourne's position is now.

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Speaker 3: So we know what Christian's position is. We know that

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Speaker 3: the big clubs that would love to have him, I

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Speaker 3: don't know whether Melbourne would allow it to happen. And

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Speaker 3: if they did, Okay, let's just imagine they did open

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Speaker 3: there is and said, okay, give us your best offer

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Speaker 3: to other clubs. What would satisfy the demons? Because it

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Speaker 3: is it's not clear cut. I mean he's had this

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Speaker 3: terrible injury that you guys are spoken to now that

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Speaker 3: is more significant physically and mentally than an ACL or

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Speaker 3: a shoulder or even a back or an army So

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Speaker 3: how did you recover from that? He is not exactly

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Speaker 3: a twenty three or twenty four year old, so he's

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Speaker 3: probably at his absolute best. He's probably only got two

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Speaker 3: maybe three years left, so he probably needs to go

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Speaker 3: to a team that's in contention. He's on good money.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's clear cut yet whether he can

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Speaker 3: get out or not. And to say no, it's a

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Speaker 3: catch twenty two though.

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Speaker 1: If they sit there and go, we don't want to let,

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Speaker 1: you know, the most valuable weapons go. But then what's

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Speaker 1: it going to go? What's it going to do internally

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Speaker 1: to the team if we keep it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've seen that happen at footy clubs before

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Speaker 4: exactly Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think if that does happen, then Christian Petrarca, being

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Speaker 3: the professionally, has no choice but to go back into

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Speaker 3: the club and be the best player and the best

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Speaker 1: You know what which track would do? Track would do

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Speaker 1: he would rock up and big professionals.

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Speaker 2: So just one last one what would satisfy Melbourne? What

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Speaker 2: world would we live in in which Christian Petrarca would

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Speaker 2: be playing for a rival club next year?

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Speaker 3: Well, the d's hold all the cards, don't make it.

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Speaker 3: He's a contracted player and the only thing that I

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Speaker 3: believe would satisfy Melbourne would be well over as to

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Speaker 3: what his actual market value. So it might be two

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Speaker 3: or three first round picks and a player. It's something

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Speaker 3: that they can't say no to. And this is the thing,

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Speaker 3: and you guys know this, that every player actually has

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Speaker 3: a price. You might say, no, we're not trading Boontpelly

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Speaker 3: from the Western Bulldogs, but if someone gave you the

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Speaker 3: top five picks in the draft at a key forward,

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Speaker 3: you go, well, were probably obligated to think about it.

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Speaker 3: So the reason why Melbourne at the moment is saying

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Speaker 3: no is because they lose bargaining power as soon as

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Speaker 3: they say, actually, let's ever think about it. And that's

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Speaker 3: what Petrarca is trying to kind of force, he kind

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Speaker 3: of force the demons to at least open the areas

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Speaker 3: and think about trading him. But at the moment, it's yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty tense.

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Speaker 1: Quickly, Tom got to put the house on it. What

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Speaker 1: clubs Petruck are going to be playing for next year? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Well likely I live in a big house, I think.

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Speaker 3: I think if it's anything, that's going to be Carlton.

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Speaker 3: But it's still a long way to go before it

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Speaker 4: Gee, the Blue Baggers would be happy to have him

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Speaker 4: at Carlton.

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Speaker 2: Tom's been right across his story since day one. So

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Speaker 2: tune into Channel nine for all the latest.

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Speaker 1: Tom Morris join us on the air chairs.

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Speaker 3: Tommy, Thanks Clint, Thanks Lauren, Thanks Joe.

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Speaker 1: Mate. Wow, Petruck has gone to ground. I mean we

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Speaker 1: talk about meeting commitments. He hasn't wropped up on the

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Speaker 1: show for a couple of weeks. I can understand why,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also like, this isn't the way to go

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Speaker 1: about it, you know.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean if he wants out, maybe this is

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Speaker 4: the way to go about it.

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Speaker 1: As a d S fan, is it leaving a bad

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Speaker 1: taste in your mouth?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I think you wouldn't be aligned with that.

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Speaker 2: There's that many you think about the kids running around

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Speaker 2: with number five exactly? Yeah, on their backs. He signed

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Speaker 2: a deal until what twenty twenty nine?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Gonna be a good Jason Lauren, Jason Lauren Wake Up

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Speaker 2: Feeling Good on number one hundred.

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Speaker 4: Jason Lauren only on socials