Oh but she has been speculating.

She speculated that Richmond would be in the clear over the 'Dutch Auction', and she speculated that Johnson shouldn't be punished for being pissed and getting arrested during the season.

She's finally got a reporter of similar filth that also feeds on the bottom. Hutchy is cornering her in the 'sell your sole for a story' stakes and she needs to justify her pay cheque each week.

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without fev, who is gonna stand up and kick our goals??? we need to develop key forwards with a linchpin in place

ffs we havent got a contingency if fev got injured - no fev unfortunately right now would mean no wins

give him a deal that is fair, all the crap about him owing us not us owing him is crap

i reckon 2 years is good for him and us, hopefully enough time for us to develop a succession plan (ie more games in hartlet/edwards new draftees)

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Fev is a star of the game
Fev is a star player for carlton
Fev wants to be a one club player
Fev is sworn off the juice for the rest of his footy career

If Fev is true to his word, why wouldn't he sign a contract with caveats in place? If he doesn't drink for the rest of his footy career what sort of trouble could he get into...there's no risk for him, because he can control that, no one else.

Every club would want Fev in their team...at the right price.

Is Fev worth more than $250K pa? The real question needing an answer is whether he's worth more than $500K pa to other clubs.

Gold Coast in 2011....if Judd and Lynch have him on the books, I dare say they will encourage a 2 year deal.

I agree with Keogh and JohnM's opinions. I can't help believe that despite niggling injuries Fev will be around when he's 32; so 4 years left. Can we manage him well enough to be useful come finals in September?

Will he be at Carlton for 4 years, and more importantly will we need him in that time to contest a Flag? That's 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. We don't seem to anyone in our squad that matches, or comes near Fev in terms of goal kicking ability.

I think our window will be from 2010 onwards.

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Id be happy if the club offered a rolling 1 yr deal @ 400k with the following
- 100k bonus for sucessfullly completing the season (barring injury)
- 50k bonus for coleman medal
- 50k bonus for top 3 in B&F
- 25k penalty for each off/on field misdemeanour (petulance, sooking)
- 25k penalty for each match lost to suspension


If the contract is terminated early due to grog or other misdemeanor then Fev is loses the remaining portion of the season ie % of season remaining X(300k - any penalties)

Which is why I don't like us speculating about Fev,

She is a muckracker of the highest order.

I'm sick of her and that fat arse wanker at the Oz, throwing crap at us.

Fev re-signing/trade deal will be story but it isn't right now.

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I hope Fev goes to Richmond next year and we get their number 1 draft pick.

Fev will not improve next year and is at his peak now. As our kids improve we won't miss him.

Time to make hard decisions and this will be one of them.

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I honestly don't think that Swann, Pratt and Icke despite his recent form want him at the club. They'll move him on if the right deal comes along.

But, I hope you're all right, I put $5 on him winning the Brownlow @ $251 last week. He's now in to $51 . I reckon he's got 7-8 votes already.

Keep it up Fev, make me a happy man .

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The fans love Fev especially the kids........you sit with the other supporters and they all go crazy when Fev gets the footy and does his stuff..
I would hate to see Fev in another jumper and I'd be looking after him with a decent contract......

Ok he is a goose but there is something very special about Fev bit like there was with Brent Crosswell.......I hated seeing Crosswell play for Nth and it would take some of the enjoyment out of the game for me if Fev wasnt wearing the No 25 for Carlton.

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When was the last time a Full Forward position player won the brownlow ?


Do you think Fev would have it in the back of his mind that if he does take a better offer from another club that his chances of ever winning a flag would be shot !!!!!!

I believe he will stay at Carlton without to much fuss.

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BRING BACK PERFORMANCE BASE PAYMENTS !!!

Currently the way things are at Carlton If Fev plays well we are a chance of winning - If he doesn't we almost certainly lose .

Therefore the only logical thing to do is trade him as he is to tempremental to have the whole entire side fortunes left on his Shoulders .

Get what you can for him and develop a team


The club has been suckered in to signing contracts on the basis of the few weeks of good performances before - Please don't do it again

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A lot of female supporters including mums that I know don't like him and think he is a bad role model for their kids.

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Not many FF chase tackle and assist like Fev. If he can keep it up, he's a big chance. Mind you, I hardly put the farm on it.

Fev is a complex individual. Nobody knows what goes through his head, but I reckon he'd rather play with Judd and Murph and Kreuzer than risk spending the rest of his career at Melbourne.

If a 2 year deal is that important to him afetr the way he's carried on, then let's take what we can get, cause he ain't the man for us. If he'll accept a 1 year deal, we'll show faith in him and extend it by another 2 after 2009.

That's a fair and reasonable outcome for Fev and the CFC.

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I am not a fan of Fevola.

I still find it disgraceful that he goes off the drink a couple of years ago plays brilliantly in kicking 80 goals in a crap side, the starts drinking again.
It is an insult to the club and his teammates.
Both times he has done well it has been after severe warnings.
For the past couple of weeks he has been fantastic, not just goals but defensively as well.

I agree with some others, the club owes him nothing. For me it is simple, he gets a one year deal with an option of another one on high incentives.

If he plays well and behaves he will be duly rewarded!!!

To give him a 3-4 year deal with his history is crazy. The days of those deals are gone. With Swann at the helm he will not allow it.

As always it should be in his hands.

If there's alcohol related clause in his contract the Carlton don't have to subsidise him. The contracts torn up. You can't work that out? That's the deal with his current contract now as it should be with future ones. Give him whatever he is on now or slightly more for 2 years and the flower up clause in it. We don't have that much going around at the moment that we can really afford to lose him. John is right.

I have faith in the "Pratt Pack" and will be happy in their decision.

Having said that, personally, I would sign him up for 2-3 years on a reasonable salary, ie. 400-500K, with some "crucial" clauses attached.
Stuff up Fev and you get next to base and traded. Keep in line and you get bonuses. Simple I know but the ball is in Fev's hands now.

I also think this will show how dedicated Fevola is to the Carlton Football Club.

I just get the feeling that Swann may let this run out for a while and sees what happens. If there is some real interest he may look at a trade for the right price.

Swann is s smart operator he will do what is right for the club first!

You got it jim.

The idea is to replicate the current situation (in which Fev is seriously delivering) over a 2 to 3 year period.

If Fev needs an axe hanging over his head to perform, then let's structure a contract that has one.

Big incentives for performing to the best of his ability. Big consequences for screwing up.

It might just be me, but I reckon I've heard plenty of ideas dumber than that. But I do work in an advertising agency...

I cant believe most of the cr@p in this thread. Fev is an absolute gilt edge superstar of the competition. One of the two that we have at the moment. He has been the only one we've had up until this year. The kids love him and, contrary to most of the opinion in this thread, there would be sides crawling over each other to have him in their forward line.

Why on earth's sake would we want to trade him away and leave a forward line of Santy, Edwards, Fish and Hartlett. You must all have rocks in your head. He can p!ss on every building in Melbourne for all I care as long as he slots 6 or 7 on the weekend.

My membership this year was justified 2 weeks ago watching him turn the new Filthingwood uberkind, Nathan Brown inside out and slot the ball from the boundary. He is worth the admission to go and see. It's not like he is the only footballer to ever get on the sauce and take things a bit too far.

Onviously right now a bit of poker is going on. Swann and co have to make it look like we're not interested in keeping him to keep his price down and Fev has to make it look like he is going elsewhere to make the blues show their hand. He wants to stay, the majority of Carlton supporters want him to stay, lets get the deals done.

How many of the anti fevola crowd wouldnt want Buddy Franklin if he sh@t on a cafe table after downing a 6 pack at 1 am on king st.

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Oh there is a line here but I won't use it because it will get deleted, again.

We should trade Fev for an early pick and then we can get Hurley. This would be a direct swap for a player who has 3 years of football left in him with a player who has 13 years.

People who say sign him up now think about the future not the present. Would we have won games without Fev this year, the answer is simple....NO!

In the future we need to win games without him because that is when we will be grand final contenders.

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