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sam mitchell to wce hsd me scratching my head for about 3 days after ot was announced...in fact im still gobsmacked
Trades that left you speechless
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Fair enough. Falling into the commentators trap of saying 'player looks dangerous' when being inefficient (Thomas).
Wells always had a certain amount of meekness about his play but his character and style were always elite.
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So glad Collingwood could be of service!Everyone who matters is a winner*
Thanks for the addition to the spud farm.
Russell Greene to Hawthorn for Mark Scott and Tony King. I was only a kid and he was my favourite player and the concept of a player changing sides (mid-season too) just seemed completely baffling to me...
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Who remembers Fremantle trading pick 4 for Tony Delaney ?
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Delany was a spud. Thank God it only took Freo a few decades to realise how laughable trades like that were.
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Nah he's a gun in his own.special way
Your Chris Bond one gives it a run for it's money though. Pick 2, FMD.
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That and a few more. I'm trying to forget that era of trades. Drum was a shocking coach appointed by the AFL. The whole start up was the shambles.
That ben holland commanded a pick sub 190 shocks us all
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Was pretty shocked when McEvoy was traded to Hawthorn, many on our board were talking of him as a future captain. In hindsight this trade will go down as a big win/win.
It wasn't quite that simple. Freo traded Jeff White to Melb for Pick 2, then traded that pick for Chris Bond, Adrian Fletcher, Daniel Hargraves and Picks 21 and 26.
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/1997-jeff-white-trade.851660/
I think we are both wrong.
I read somewhere it was pick 2 but looking further I find this.
https://www.draftguru.com.au/years/1997
Fremantle got 21 + Chris Bond
Richmond got 2
Agree. I've learned to accept that Trades and Draft picks are swings and roundabouts. I've also learned that there's a lot of shenanigans that go on in the AFL and amongst clubs, and I just wish they'd stop taking us as fools.
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I think we are both right. In isolation that is what Freo-Richmond traded - but Richmond started with 5 which ended up with Brisbane in exchange for Adrian Fletcher. So it was more like Chris Bond for a 3 pick upgrade from 2 to 5. It was a very complex trade with quite a few clubs involved.
We did get 2 captains out of it (which given our lack of leadership at the time was important) - so it was not as disasterous as some early Freo trades.
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