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Trade Week - Richmond Only
- Thread starter Smoking Aces
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Agree, weaker on field in 2025, but a lot closer to flag number 14 than in 2024.
Contracts? It seems they can be broken anytime. Rarely do clubs enforce them. Maybe with Oliver or Petracca unless over the odds draft capital is involved.
I think most clubs have been trying to tie their better players up. Especially with Tassy coming in.
Some players/managers take a chance especially when close to FA.
But in a negotiating sense, they do help to maybe extract a slightly better deal.
Exactly the point., that was made at the time of the trade.
Now the hindsighters want to add Rioli or Bolton or Baker and their trades into the mix to deflect from the main point that was made after that first trade.
But deflection and muddying the waters is their go. They can’t justify that first trade so they add it to something else.
no we didn't maximize our trade higher up in the trade . We got some higher picks, but not the maximum outcome. There's been better options listed by posters and myself. Again Blair was gifted a great trade period, but didn't get the best outcome and why i gave him a B+.
Sorry, I think your argument is the only thing unproven, the only thing proven is pick 32 helped us get pick 20.
Yes and those pints could have come from our later picks rather than pick 32 which is the whole point even if we needed to give as many points as we actually gave them which is still unclear. The points value of the later picks was pretty close to the points value of 32.
As you are talking about what was proven, please show the proof of that and not an opinion, you raised the " proven/ not proven". Happy to admit my mistake as soon as you provide the pick 14 proof.
Shhhhhh.
We got all those you beaut picks for nothing. They don’t realise we lost 3 of our best players to get them
You can only rate the trade period on what you get. Not what it cost you to get anything.
(Edit, I had to add the wink)
They couldn't have, but didn't. And those points were used to get Rioli, which Blair probably knew about. Anyone who thinks he just had a brain wave to hand over some late picks on the last day, I'd suggest are a tad naive.
The end result though, we're no worse off. The end result of the trade week is basically the same result. Just the journey we took to get there is different to what some folks would like, even they have no evidence that what they would have preferred would ever be accepted by Brisbane, Freo or Gold Coast. The folks wailing about the journey forget we ended up at the same destination, and have no evidence to the contrary.
If those types would like to spend the next week or two crying in their wheaties, fill ya boots. I'll be off dreaming about who our 8 in 24 can be turned into.
IT'S BEEN DONE TO DEATH. Stop going round in circles as you still are on first base that pick 32 got us pick 20. Absolute nonsense as there were 3 other picks involved which led to a net loss of pick 24.
In all the history of AFL trading and drafting, how many times has a list manager successfully traded for SIX additional first round picks during one trade week?
The GWS and GC guys have probably done a couple or maybe even three at one time, esp GWS who are pretty good at identifying guys who they used early picks on and aren’t going to make it and often have to deal with homesick players. Occasionally, their academy kids have given them an extra couple of first round picks on draft night. I may be wrong but I can’t remember anyone trading for six extra first rounders in one hit.
Hartley didn’t end up with a first and a second and a steak knives player on any of his deals. That is the usual result, given that every team is given ONE first round pick each year. The strategy was planned last year with the repeated slide backs for extra mid range picks. Teams with extra picks were targeted, players were consulted and assisted in getting where they wanted to go.
Contrast the Houston deal. Port are unhappy because they didn’t get two first round picks, the player is not where he wanted to go and the receiving club has no picks for two years.
This is has been a Bradmanesque performance.
The GWS and GC guys have probably done a couple or maybe even three at one time, esp GWS who are pretty good at identifying guys who they used early picks on and aren’t going to make it and often have to deal with homesick players. Occasionally, their academy kids have given them an extra couple of first round picks on draft night. I may be wrong but I can’t remember anyone trading for six extra first rounders in one hit.
Hartley didn’t end up with a first and a second and a steak knives player on any of his deals. That is the usual result, given that every team is given ONE first round pick each year. The strategy was planned last year with the repeated slide backs for extra mid range picks. Teams with extra picks were targeted, players were consulted and assisted in getting where they wanted to go.
Contrast the Houston deal. Port are unhappy because they didn’t get two first round picks, the player is not where he wanted to go and the receiving club has no picks for two years.
This is has been a Bradmanesque performance.
You are one of the main culprits who keep bringing it up
We only reply when the question is asked…again and again and again. Just too be accomodating.
“ Spend the next week?”. You’re slow mate, we’d already moved ages ago.
It’s just those types trying to justify their crying and whining that can’t let go about people who have a different opinion than them.
You watch…it will be asked again today, tomorrow…
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You logic is too simple . What happened to all the other picks including a F3? You are not looking at individual trades and the only trade Blair won on was the Baker trade. He then blew it on the Bolton trade.
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Blair sounded like,he wasn't 100% convinced we need to get pick 2 as it's a deep draft,so will only do so if it's a benefit to us.
History does side with clubs keeping or acquiring picks 1,2,3 as picking up a champion for 2 afl standard players.
No one thinks that Blair never makes a mistake. We are just questioning certain people’s ability to judge them
yes we are. lolNo one thinks that Blair never makes a mistake. We are just questioning certain people’s ability to judge them
