The Worst Trade Ever

[Burzum]

Carey and Longmire for $25K.

444 games, 1182 goals, 5 x B&F's, 2 x Leigh Matthews Trophies and a Coleman Medal.

The deal worked out at roughly $21 a goal.

Carey was just the steak knives of the deal too.

 

[Hank93]

Hawthorn get pick one for Trent Croad and Luke McPharlin. Fremantle end up losing Trent Croad who goes back to Hawthorn.

Therefore Fremantle traded the number one pick for Luke McPharlin. In 2001 when the draft was considered the ultra draft, that was pretty dumb. Not sure who Fremantle would have picked if they had pick one but I would have Luke Hodge, Chris Judd, Luke Ball or Jimmy Bartel over Luke McPharlin any day of the week.

Brisbanes Fevola trade has prob made the biggest impact to any club.

Crows trading pick two (Daniel Wells) for Wayne Carey when he was 31 in 2002 was pretty dumb as well.

 

[Teffy]

Carey was just the steak knives of the deal too.

Yes, Longmire was the main course, and who knows how good he would have been if not for his wretched knees? A Coleman Medal and B & F at 19, is testament to his ability and he's still the youngest player to ever win the Coleman.

 

[tribey]

What about

Pick 36 (Mark LeCras) for Chad Morrison (noob player who cost Pies 250k sponsorship deal)

Morrison was an absolute stud until the H-Bomb of injury blew him apart at just 22.

 

[CarlosSETANTA]

Rockabilly..alll night long....Rockabilly....show the boys what he's all about.....Rockabilly...make the girls scream and shout.....Rockabilly's such a haaaandsome maaaan.

 

[tribey]

Carey was just the steak knives of the deal too.

With Buckley the Ah-Bra a couple of years later except out of stock, never shipped.

 

[TigerTime88]

Dude.. Gumbleton over Selwood..

Not to mention Boak, Riewoldt and Frawley!

It's a trade thread anyway not a draft.

 

[Defacto]

saints have had a fair few in their time.

in recent times i think we got schneider/dempster at a pretty good pick. charlie gardiner/king for a very late pick. king is now our ruck coach, got very good service out of him.

did we trade for monkhaust? what did we get for the winmar to doggies trade.

 

[Bronwyn]

Hawthorn get pick one for Trent Croad and Luke McPharlin. Fremantle end up losing Trent Croad who goes back to Hawthorn.

Therefore Fremantle traded the number one pick for Luke McPharlin. In 2001 when the draft was considered the ultra draft, that was pretty dumb. Not sure who Fremantle would have picked if they had pick one but I would have Luke Hodge, Chris Judd, Luke Ball or Jimmy Bartel over Luke McPharlin any day of the week.

Brisbanes Fevola trade has prob made the biggest impact to any club.

Crows trading pick two (Daniel Wells) for Wayne Carey when he was 31 in 2002 was pretty dumb as well.

Oh come on wouldn't Hawthorn want McPharlin back and the others just like like Juddy would have returned to Victoria as soon as soon as possible. Luke has now shown he is an elite 200 game key position player that would fit into any club. Not only is he talented but he is durable and loyal what more can you ask. We at Freo are very happy with the end result 10 years on.

 

[SexyBlueGirl]

Hate to say it, and not the worst by any means, but Brock McLean has not been great. Gysberts looks really good, would love to have him.

 

[CarlosSETANTA]

That trade ended up being Luke Hodge and Sam Mitchell for Luke McPharlin and Riley Dunn though, didn't it?

 

[Flinch]

Anything that freo did. Late 90's..early 00's

 

[cats81]

Fevola Trade. End thread

 

[RickSanchez]

Jesus this has been done to death.

We never had Mitchell or Hodge on our list. How the hell could we trade them?
Poor work I guess for trading an early pick in a strong draft but who knows, Hodge may have played average and wanted to get traded back to Victoria? Mitchell was a great selection at that pick. We did dumb things but its not if we had these players and traded them off. It was good drafting by the clubs when we traded good picks. Just in hindsight it looks poor. Captain Hindsight would tell you all about it. Happy with what McPharlin has done for us, of course Croad was a fail move by us.

We also did let players go whom went on and did some good things for their clubs, once again it may have been the spark of getting traded that may have sent them into playing good football and being at a successful club probably helped too.

Rant over.

By the way, yes we did stupid things with our picks its just people don't look at it in depth enough just on the surface. Poor drafting early on I'm glad its finally changed.

 

[Football Pope]

I suspect that trade was partly driven because at that stage Fitzroy couldnt afford to pay for all 3 of Broderick, Gale & Dundas.

There have been times such as Fitzroys death throws, Sydney in the early 90's and Brisbane Bears in the early 90's where other clubs have been able to poach mercilessly. Not sure if its fair to count those days in a "worst trade ever" thread, as those 3 clubs didnt have a choice.

Disagree Doc Jolly..No escaping it.. Those times were indeed the clubs darkest days..The fact remains, they were bad trades.
If money was the issue.. they had the option to simply delist players..they didn't have to go through with the trade...
Cant and shouldn't wipe out part of history to suit an arguement....Whether it was fair or not is irrelevant...It's equally unfair not to count them now and sweep it under the carpet as though it never happened.. Goes hand in hand with the reminders of handouts and premierships..

 

[Corrie]

Tambling over Franklin.

Oh, is that overdone?...

My bad.

that wasnt a trade...you dimwit!

 

[The King!]

locketts trade can never be the worst, he wanted out of stkilda they didnt have much choice. To be the worst trade surely it needs to be where a club gave someone the boot for nothing and it bites them in the backside

 

[Bazzar]

Tambling over Franklin.

Oh, is that overdone?...

My bad.

Houli for pick 47.... Ooops, my bad, you gave him to us.

 

[theflea]

Jordan Mcmahon for pick 19 I believe. Look in your own backyard Terry

tiger fans loved it because we may not have chosen d martin at pick 2!!

 

[The Fact]

tiger fans loved it because we may not have chosen d martin at pick 2!!

Good call bad Call goooood call

 

[Bazzar]

Stephen O'Reilly from Carlton to Freo for - Pick 16 and 46, $1m fine, pick 1, 2, 17 and 33 in the 2003 draft, pick 1 in the 2003 PSD, 1st and 2nd round picks in the 2004 draft.

What a classic.

Next worse Lloyd for Tod Ridley

 

[Crow-mo]

Arguably the best footballer of all time for pick 5?

Yeah - Sydney got a steal

very arguably. table thumping arguably.

wasn't best player in his position, during his playing career.

 

[Crow-mo]

Wallet likes to deflect things away from himself.

Pick 5 and a player was a fair trade. What they used that pick on is irrelevant.

Joel Smith looked like being a superstar in the early years, and 1994 was the original superdraft.

 

[Crow-mo]

Dude.. Gumbleton over Selwood..

dude, not a freaking trade.

 

[Crow-mo]

Hawthorn get pick one for Trent Croad and Luke McPharlin. Fremantle end up losing Trent Croad who goes back to Hawthorn.

actually that was a very good trade for fremantle at the time.

they needed talls desperately. were going to take polak #1, and stole McPharlin from Hawthorn by using the threat of the PSD to get him free, and so got him for pick #20

at the time, getting Croad (who looked a superstar at the time) and McPharlin and Polak was a huge effort.