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Trade Week - Richmond Only
- Thread starter Smoking Aces
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Just give Freo, Gold Coast and North a call and let them know that’s what they have agreed to
Grand sale. Grand sale. Nothing at all to do with playing with hard balls, simplest n cheapest of nasty deals possible was done with barely a thought or option. Yeah I guess Brisvegas might have had a 3 or 4 club deal all worked out to get them the points they wanted for half value, then again maybe not. There was only 1 or 2 other clubs that could have come close to offering Brisvegas the much needed points value for their pick matching.
Lots of clubs n trade managers all sitting out there waiting for someone to blink, we've already done so once and then the Wet Coke bloke got caught napping, which of course affects us again to some extent. First week of shuffling around n poking out the jab are done n dusted n we've been tagged a couple of times. Gloves come off n blood starts flowing next week, hope it's not to much of ours.
Still reckon we need to hit up 8 to 10 players this years draft n we've shortened our options by not having anything in the 30s to 40s range left.
Just listening to the media. Usually they do this to lay the groundwork for an actual deal.
We want 10 and 11. They want 10 and 18. It'll be somewhere in between, hence the 10, 11 and 30 for Shai and 20. I'd much prefer the 7 pick upgrade in the teens and take the 10 pick downgrade in the 20's.
The talk here is still Baker to the weagles. they just have to find a way to get the deal done. Hope he goes to the dockers though.
Don't believe what you read. WC is still where he wants to go and they are still keen to make it happen.
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Just thinking a bit more to this (and this is why you look at an overall trade position rather than individual trades).
I don't think WC do 3 for Baker and 10, but what if we did 6 and Baker, for 3 and their 2nd (25). Might seem a bit unders, but stick with me here.
We then trade that 2nd (25), or maybe even one of the later ones shown above (29 or 30), plus our F2 for the Bombers Pick 9. Just did the maths, probably need both the later ones, but we get a F3rd back. Something like 9 and Bombers F3rd, for 29, 30 and F2nd.
Whilst it may seem unders for the Baker trade I reckon it gives us a stronger hand.
With a Baker trade to come, we had 1, 6, 10, 11, 24, 29, 30, 70 and 76.
After the trades above, we'd have: 1, 3, 9, 10, 11, 24, 25, 70 and 76, but having lost Baker.
So essentially 6, 29, 30 and the pick slide in 2025 (plus Bakes), for 3, 9 and 25.
I'd be doing that.
We'd have such a strong hand if something like this occurred,
The big spanner in the works is other clubs coming hard for 13.
4 clubs offering future picks for 13.
Its meant to be a good draft and this confirms it.
Also there arent many clubs who need to get out of this draft. Brisbane were one and theyre out. Essendon may be one. Crows and blues have father sons who arent sitting top tier, so no need to exit the first round.
So now 13 is worth more than any informal discussions earlier in the season.
Similar thing happened to us, with Prestia. The shoe was on the other foot as our informally agreed trade of our first rounder was more valuable when we had a horrible 2016. We stuck by the agreement.
Maybe we hold firm and GC stick to the agreement.
Or maybe they get greedy and sell 13.
Then i'd want 6, 23 and 29.
That's kinda equivalent to 13.
Obvs we,d prefe 13.
Give back later picks for GC points.
If Freo are prepared to give 10, 11 and 18 for Shai and Bakes they're prepared to give 10 & 11 for Shai.
I absolutely don't want west coast giving pick 3 for shitty 12,14,that's not enough
Even giving Kennedy isn't enough.
I prefer 10 ,Baker for 3. They get Allan,baker,plus barass keep or sell separate.
I wonder if Blair,Clarke are throwing out furphys by allowing media to think Carlton is a chance at 3,which might relax Fremantle in releasing 10,11,as both wa clubs want Allan.
Even giving Kennedy isn't enough.
I prefer 10 ,Baker for 3. They get Allan,baker,plus barass keep or sell separate.
I wonder if Blair,Clarke are throwing out furphys by allowing media to think Carlton is a chance at 3,which might relax Fremantle in releasing 10,11,as both wa clubs want Allan.
And you reckon those clubs will politely wait while we play hard ball until the end of trade period because we "want to keep our options open".
Yeah, I used the house analogy in the Rioli/Baker & Suns/Freo cases. You want the house, you pay the price required. We wanted the house, we paid the price, no mucking around.
Not sure of all the parts but I reckon we should be going hard to get both pick 3 and Essendons 9.
I agree. I think the better mids are in the top 5, 6 is kind of middling, and we'd probably get the same player at 9 anyway, so I'd be stoked to a deal like those suggested
