Ben the Gooner
Stand by Hird
So for 8 days we only tried one complex way to trade for Caddy which involved a non-starting 22 player?
I couldn't care less about Slattery staying or leaving this year - he is steak knives and barring a miracle will be gone next year - I'm just trying to understand how he is so pivotal to getting a gun kid and how bad we must be at trading, let alone list management (which I must say we have rocked at for the last 10 years).
Ffs, he was not a pivotal part of the deal, but he was a part of the deal. We were dealing with Brisbane for an early pick, and they were interested in Slattery. Therefore it made sense to try and combine the two into one deal.
How about this as an analogy. When we wanted to trade for Prismall, let's say Geelong wanted to trade for pick 5 and were going to give up a premiership player for it. Geelong would come to us saying "we want pick 5", we'd respond with "we want Prismall" and eventually the deal would get done as Kelly + Prismall for 5 or something. That wouldn't mean that Prismall was a key part of the deal, or that Geelong offered up a fringe player for pick 5.
Let's say tt is right in his scenario. The main part of the deal is Gumby for pick. It just makes sense to involve Slattery as well seeing as they wanted him also.