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Yeah we traded a future (2018) 3rd rounder for Brandon Matera.The last of the individual trade reviews.
2017 Trade 28
In the last and easily the most one sided trade Freo made in 2017 we had another player with that queasy feeling in their stomach and a hankering for mum's cooking. More synically I suspect most are suffering from wallet emptyitis. Fortunately it was Matera who had that feeling and Freo was his destination of choice. So we waved goodbye to our future round 3 pick, picked up our boots and went home from the trade spectacle.
From day one Matera proved a frustration to Freo fans who always wanted a bit more from the small forward who seemed to define mercurial. Looking over the numbers his average contribution of 60.1 SC points per game is just low in my opinion. Still he gave us 43 games and 2585 SC points before the powers that be decided enough was enough and delisted him.
Gold Coast wasn’t as fortunate. They traded that future R3 pick, which I believe ended life as Pick 44, to Brisbane in 2018’s fourth trade. It was a pick frenzy with seven picks changing hands. None of which GC held onto. Pick 24 became 27 before being sent to West Coast as part of trade 44. GC then took Jez, McLennan who is yet to be sighted in the wild and a future round 5 West Coast pick (yep that’s a 2019 pick for those counting). Back in trade 4 GC also picked up pick 27, which got sent to Geelong as GC sort talent. The meagre output George Horlin-Smith offered suggested they didn’t succeed. Still they did get a late pick, 80. Except those junk time picks seem to be more and more useless as the AFL limits the number of picks teams take to draft night. 2018 P80 never surfaced after the trade, neither did 2019’s WC round 5 pick.
All that is to say that after count back’s and proportional distribution GC weighed in with 2 games and 85 SC points confirming this as the most one sided trade Freo had in 2017.
Just as well we didn’t. He would likely have been grossly overpaid as a free agent and judging by his work ethic last year, coasted through the contract whilst making minimal impact.Yeah we traded a future (2018) 3rd rounder for Brandon Matera.
Still had a year to go but was out of favour at the suns.
Had we waited one more season, Freo would of got him as a free agent on a 3 year deal
And contracted for 2021.Just as well we didn’t. He would likely have been grossly overpaid as a free agent and judging by his work ethic last year, coasted through the contract whilst making minimal impact.
Pretty sure that at the very moment we made the trade for Crozier it was pick 39. Very soon after a FA compo pick was allocated to push back to 40 and then another to 41. Anyway Crozier was out of contract and had made his mind that he was going. Pick 39/40 for Crozier was a little under for us but we did quite well out of the Hamling trade a year earlier. So a goodwill trade so to speak.There are two trades in question. Yes we used Pick 41 in the trade for Pick 2. But it was the top up in that trade. There were other options at the time. Consequently I would say that we way over paid for Pick 41. Making Andy more expensive than required. The trade for Andy, statistically speaking, is even or slightly in GC’s favour. The trade for Pick 41 is not even close, statistically speaking.
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We just have a terrible history with getting forwards. McCarthy, Kersten, Gumbleton, Sylvia (mid-fwd but still), Hogan, the list goes on.2016 Trade 11
Trade 11 in 2016 was one of those all too rare opportunities to bring a sandgroper home. We were all feeling good over the McCarthy thing so the powers that be sidled up to the dogs and politely requested they hand over Hamling for a respectable round two pick in 35. Provided they gave us change of course. A few beers later we added 43 and 61 to the pot. They reciprocated with 40 and 63 and we all headed off smiling.
Their smiles led them straight to trade 16 where they handed over 35 and 43 in a deal for pick 26 and pick 80. Pick 26 they took to the draft eventually securing Lipinski but recognised that 80 isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, leving it in the bin somewhere between trade and draft night. They didn’t hang onto pick 63 either dealing it to St Kilda along with North’s 2017 round 4 pick and Koby Stevens. In return they received pick 50 (Young, Lewis ) and St Kind’s 2017 round 5 pick. For those able to use the tool it tells you that Stevens was worth less than nothing at the end of the trade. (I’m not kidding on count back he was worth -32 AFL academe points. Ouch). 50 became Young, Lewis (yes I’m calling him that from now on) who hasn’t made too many games. St Kilda’s round 5 eventually became Callum Porter who played a single game before being delisted last year. Which is a nice way of saying that Lipinski made all the running and the Dogs only gained 43 games and 3080 SC points out of all that effort.
Hamling only made it onto the park for 3 seasons (I’m trying to be polite about the S&C people so I won’t say a thing) but managed the win here all by himself. However we should be excited about pick 40 here. We picked up B Cox who is starting to come on well filling in amongst the frequently decimated KPD stocks. The steak knives in the trade, pick 63 ended up in the Kersten trade (see below for details) but as this was all that was traded we can add 100% on the count back.
So to the verdict, Freo by the length of the Whitten Oval. We brought 138 games and 8677 SC points to a very one sided affair. Those counting may point out that the dogs managed a better SC points per game number at 68.5 where we could only muster 62.9. I’ll counter that by saying all three players we called spend all their time as key forwards or backs. Consequently I expect their possession numbers to be down and as stated previously regard games played as a better indicator particularly for defenders.
2016 Trade3218
We bothered because pick 63 was the steak knives in the Hamling deal and hey there was another forward in the offing who wanted to come home. As backup plans go it was a valid option if the McCarthy thing failed. Of course you're all fresh out of luck if plan b fails too.
None of that however was front of mind when Geelong summoned Fremantle announcing they were reconsidering the deal and would now gladly trade Kersten for that inconsequential pick 63. Their motives were clarified immediately as it was passed to Carlton whilst the ink was still wet allowing Geelong to secure Zac Tuohy.
Kersten unfortunately didn’t have a huge impact at Freo. He played 29 games, scored 1581 SC points and could have been something. He did however hand us a win here as that pick 63 was worth less than 9% of trade 19 meaning that Geelong only attributes 9 games and 651 points to the trade. They don’t care. Trade 19 was all about Tuohy but they do remind us that we need better SC points per match. Kersten only ran at 54.5. Tuohy and Lachie Fogarty average 76.2. Another limited victory.
We have taken Sturt and Henry with reasonable picks, and while they are not KPPs they do look like quality.We just have a terrible history with getting forwards. McCarthy, Kersten, Gumbleton, Sylvia (mid-fwd but still), Hogan, the list goes on.
We really need some sort of change with the way we pick our recruits.
That was a very enjoyable read. Keep em coming2016 Trade 11
Trade 11 in 2016 was one of those all too rare opportunities to bring a sandgroper home. We were all feeling good over the McCarthy thing so the powers that be sidled up to the dogs and politely requested they hand over Hamling for a respectable round two pick in 35. Provided they gave us change of course. A few beers later we added 43 and 61 to the pot. They reciprocated with 40 and 63 and we all headed off smiling.
Their smiles led them straight to trade 16 where they handed over 35 and 43 in a deal for pick 26 and pick 80. Pick 26 they took to the draft eventually securing Lipinski but recognised that 80 isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, leving it in the bin somewhere between trade and draft night. They didn’t hang onto pick 63 either dealing it to St Kilda along with North’s 2017 round 4 pick and Koby Stevens. In return they received pick 50 (Young, Lewis ) and St Kind’s 2017 round 5 pick. For those able to use the tool it tells you that Stevens was worth less than nothing at the end of the trade. (I’m not kidding on count back he was worth -32 AFL academe points. Ouch). 50 became Young, Lewis (yes I’m calling him that from now on) who hasn’t made too many games. St Kilda’s round 5 eventually became Callum Porter who played a single game before being delisted last year. Which is a nice way of saying that Lipinski made all the running and the Dogs only gained 43 games and 3080 SC points out of all that effort.
Hamling only made it onto the park for 3 seasons (I’m trying to be polite about the S&C people so I won’t say a thing) but managed the win here all by himself. However we should be excited about pick 40 here. We picked up B Cox who is starting to come on well filling in amongst the frequently decimated KPD stocks. The steak knives in the trade, pick 63 ended up in the Kersten trade (see below for details) but as this was all that was traded we can add 100% on the count back.
So to the verdict, Freo by the length of the Whitten Oval. We brought 138 games and 8677 SC points to a very one sided affair. Those counting may point out that the dogs managed a better SC points per game number at 68.5 where we could only muster 62.9. I’ll counter that by saying all three players we called spend all their time as key forwards or backs. Consequently I expect their possession numbers to be down and as stated previously regard games played as a better indicator particularly for defenders.
2016 Trade3218
We bothered because pick 63 was the steak knives in the Hamling deal and hey there was another forward in the offing who wanted to come home. As backup plans go it was a valid option if the McCarthy thing failed. Of course you're all fresh out of luck if plan b fails too.
None of that however was front of mind when Geelong summoned Fremantle announcing they were reconsidering the deal and would now gladly trade Kersten for that inconsequential pick 63. Their motives were clarified immediately as it was passed to Carlton whilst the ink was still wet allowing Geelong to secure Zac Tuohy.
Kersten unfortunately didn’t have a huge impact at Freo. He played 29 games, scored 1581 SC points and could have been something. He did however hand us a win here as that pick 63 was worth less than 9% of trade 19 meaning that Geelong only attributes 9 games and 651 points to the trade. They don’t care. Trade 19 was all about Tuohy but they do remind us that we need better SC points per match. Kersten only ran at 54.5. Tuohy and Lachie Fogarty average 76.2. Another limited victory.
I'll look ay 2019That was a very enjoyable read. Keep em coming