Trade Period 2023 - winners and losers

[burge13]

Pies: Not the busiest but Schultz replaces Adams at HF and will kick more goals. Lost Gin, replaceable. They got better but old list

Sydney: did really well

Port will perceive they won but wait and see. If they have another run next season then ok. I like Soldo in but did they need him and Sweet? Sav is overrated as ****, BZT has had 3 kicked on him already

We needed to do more. An inside mid who walks into the best 22 ideally. We faffed about with Petty who Dees fans seem to believe is the next Buddy (LOL) so see how that goes. Lost Doedee and McAdam. Doedee a loss but Hinge covered him well, not fussed with McAdam. See how we draft. Would have taken a shot at Billings tbh

Dons: panicked

Dees: panicked

North have alot of picks

Freo lost

 

[JuddgementDay]

Trading wise, Sydney is the winner

But, overall - this year is North’s draft then GC. All other clubs are fighting for scraps

 

[Orange crush]

Losers

GWS: On the cusp of a grand final and made no effort to improve best 22

I can see how this could be seen as a loss, but we didn't lose players (except Flynn and got pck 43 as compo and that should come in to 38-39?). We also didn't trade in list cloggers for the sake of trading AND didn't do a stupid GCS-style salary dump as many had hoped. We've taken a lot of early picks recently and these players are going to give us growth internally. So, salary cap in good condition, not losing anyone and good picks in the draft = very solid position

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

Dodo won trade week yet again, he always wins.

 

[Seb78]

Essendon losers I reckon. 850k over six years for McKay is nuts. Add whatever they paid Gresham to get band 2, and I think they will be regretting using so much cap on these two.

And yet, according to Cal Twomey they still have much more cap in the bank. No good it sitting there doing nothing. It will need to be spent sooner or later. In the next couple years Shiel comes off the books there is another 800k. McKay only 25 and has his best footy ahead of him, dont have a huge issue with that one. Gresham, however I agree, spent overs potentially there. I guess we'll find out.

 

[Barrybran]

Geelong by far the winners. Picks 76 and 94 will net them some stars.

It would be a coup if they landed someone like Noah Long with one of those picks given there will likely only be 50-60 players selected

 

[Altum Volantes]

We wanted points, we got points (and a lot of future ammunition), nothing more to say really.

You did manage to complete your traditional trading of a former high draft pick away for bugger all. It wouldn’t be the trade period without at least one of those.

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Essendon losers I reckon. 850k over six years for McKay is nuts. Add whatever they paid Gresham to get band 2, and I think they will be regretting using so much cap on these two.

A lot of that will be balanced out with Shiel and Stringer being moved on within the next 24 months.

 

[Soups]

Dodoro wins the Dodoro cup yet again.

Always a winner when it’s a one man race

 

[lordbob]

Essendon.

dodo out is a pretty big win imo

 

[Big_Birdy]

Swans biggest winners. Paid minimal and all upside. Only loss a player who isn’t making their team on exposed form.

Freo biggest losers but not because of how they traded. Did OK in bad situation but end of day their best 22 is weaker after trade period and that’s not where they should be at.

 

[kreglze]

You did manage to complete your traditional trading of a former high draft pick away for bugger all. It wouldn’t be the trade period without at least one of those.

Yeah, probably the one absolute stinker, but overall through the 5 other trades we achieved our goals for the period while moving on an underwhelming and underachieving players like Chol and Hollands, and leaving us in a good draft position for both 23 and 24.

 

[Suma Magic]

And yet, according to Cal Twomey they still have much more cap in the bank. No good it sitting there doing nothing. It will need to be spent sooner or later. In the next couple years Shiel comes off the books there is another 800k. McKay only 25 and has his best footy ahead of him, dont have a huge issue with that one. Gresham, however I agree, spent overs potentially there. I guess we'll find out.

You can just front end deals and set yourself up to have a massive salary cap in the future. There is no such thing as money sitting there doing nothing.

 

[Suma Magic]

A lot of that will be balanced out with Shiel and Stringer being moved on within the next 24 months.

They would be moved out anyway. I was comparing McKay and gresham’s overpayment with just not overpaying for players.

 

[Andy_Mac]

Pies: Not the busiest but Schultz replaces Adams at HF and will kick more goals. Lost Gin, replaceable. They got better but old list

Sydney: did really well

Port will perceive they won but wait and see. If they have another run next season then ok. I like Soldo in but did they need him and Sweet? Sav is overrated as *, BZT has had 3 kicked on him already

We needed to do more. An inside mid who walks into the best 22 ideally. We faffed about with Petty who Dees fans seem to believe is the next Buddy (LOL) so see how that goes. Lost Doedee and McAdam. Doedee a loss but Hinge covered him well, not fussed with McAdam. See how we draft. Would have taken a shot at Billings tbh

Dons: panicked

Dees: panicked

North have alot of picks

Freo lost

How so?

And not sure how Dee's fans think Petty I the next Buddy. Your club was the one offering him Buddy level money. We just help a required player to his contract.

 

[Seb78]

You can just front end deals and set yourself up to have a massive salary cap in the future. There is no such thing as money sitting there doing nothing.

How do we know the McKay & Gresham offers weren't front ended? Don't think it's as dire as some are making it out to be. We'll wait and see I guess

 

[ferrisb]

Geelong by far the winners. Picks 76 and 94 will net them some stars.

Mackie burner account...

 

[ferrisb]

Shiel wanted St Kilda.

Not the first time he's missed his target...

 

[FlyHigh18]

Essendon.

In: McKay, Gresham, Goldstein, Duursma, #35, #61 and a future 4th (Collingwoods)

Out: Zerk-Thatcher, D'Ambrosio, #52, #73, Future 3rd (ours) and future 4th (ours)

Not the winner of the period but we did pretty well at improving our list and draft hand.

You’d bloody hope so, the dodo just spent $2.2m of your cap for those upgrades

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Loser - Elliot Himmelberg. Everyone else who wanted out got where they wanted except him

Harrison Petty as well.

 

[Westlo]

I like what Sydney, Melbourne and Essendon have done, Fremantle has a lot of short tem pain but have also done well depending on how they go next year.

• Essendon we've seen this episode before 6 years ago when they picked up Saad, Stringer and Smith. I like McKay but not at the price. Gresham will be a whipping boy in no time and Duursma is less than ordinary.

lol how is it the same episode?

Saad, Stringer and Smith were all trades vs FA picks ups and a player swap.

2017 draft our picks were 49, 66 and 76 compared to 9, 31 & 35 this upcoming draft.

The Saad, Stringer and Smith trades also left us with Picks 11 (turned into Shiel) and 60 for the 2018 draft, no picks that matter for 2024 have been given up.

No meaningful currency apart from money (which we have ample to burn as you can see with the plans to pay Shiels contract and make Gresham Band 1 to give a mid first rounder) was used to turn a retiree in Andrew Phillips and three out of contract players in BZT, Snelling and Massimo into Goldy, McKay, Gresham and Duursma while improving this years draft position and leaving all future picks that matter intact.

 

[SSSSSS]

From a pure value point we turned a 2nd round MSD pick and our future 2nd into Ginnivan, Chol and Gunston.

That's a hell of a return on investment for Sticks. Gonna miss him though. Weird looking unit but he can play.

Collingwood biggest winner for mine. Lacklustre trade period but they got the best talent available and all other competitors didn't pick up anyone that would move the needle.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

We have stupid amounts of cap space. I’m pretty sure we still struggled to hit the cap floor after bringing them in.

Yep Dodoro said we will be attacking FA the next few years

 

[Vindicater]

You’d bloody hope so, the dodo just spent $2.2m of your cap for those upgrades

Meh. Cap going up and huge cap space this year I imagine both McKay and Gresham are heavily front loaded so we can even hit the cap floor.

 

[VinnieB]

I honestly reckon out of all players traded this year only one could be considered a legitimate ‘star’ - Brodie Grundy.


Oh, and Brandon Ryan.

Hasn’t been a star since 2019.