threenewpadlocks
Brownlow Medallist
Yes, but you get nothing in the aggregate over all trades if you fail to ever make the other club blink first and pay more rather than allowing a player they convinced to nominate go through the draft.the club will get nothing if they send Smith into the draft
By all accounts it was only our sincere willingness - that we got board approval of and informed Brisbane of that fact - to let Dunkley go through the draft, that got Brisbane to add more to their trade haul at the end of the the trade period. You don't have that sincere willingness, and other clubs can see through that, and lowball you, because they know that you'll accept anything that is more than nothing because "it is more than nothing".
By definition, pick 50 is more than nothing, but even you can agree you'd rather send him to the draft than accept pick 50? You can extend that same logic out to trades that are worth a lot more.