gringo2011
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It all comes down to the same thing. Talent identification.
For McEvoy we got the Luke Dunstan pick and Shane Savage.
For starters it seems a pretty lame deal, considering we didn't need to trade our 24 year old ruckman.
We then traded a similarly valuable pick to get 20 year old Billy Longer.
Almost a swap for Savage and Longer.
Neither of them went on to play as long as McEvoy.
Doing deals for the sake of doing deals.
Daniel McStay was selected with the pick we paid for Longer. ( Dal Santo compensation ).
Zac Merret was the following pick.
Also available at that pick was Lobb, Nankervis, Hewett, Alex Pierce and plenty of others.
But we got Longer, despite haveing 2 years of seniors exposure to highlight his spuddedness.
At least we realised pretty quickly that Pelican was a snake-oil salesman. Just a shame Trout lasted so long.