What are West Coast trying to do?

[Obeanie1]

Who is above the CEO? Are the board doing trade week now?

Time will reveal true trade outcome

The full picture of this trade and draft period won't become clearer for several years

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"The full picture of this trade and draft period won't become clearer for several years"

Ah, no. If pick 12 turns out to be a superstar that does not justify trading down from pick 3.

True.

However it also depends on who they draft with tthe Barrass picks.

Do they potentially use them or some of them to trade back into the 2024 draft.

The Baker trade Eagles paid overs.

The Barrass trade Hawks paid overs.

Swings and roundabouts.

 

[garlic munchers]

True.

However it also depends on who they draft with tthe Barrass picks.

Do they potentially use them or some of them to trade back into the 2024 draft.

The Baker trade Eagles paid overs.

The Barrass trade Hawks paid overs.

Swings and roundabouts.

So what you are saying is we can get pick 3 this year for the Hawks future picks.

Happy days

 

[toomanysquibs]

Did we come up with the ability to read?

No.

We just assume people can before they respond. Unfortunatley that isnt always the case.

And what is the issue, its 100% factual what the Hawks paid for Barress. The Hawks first three rounds of their 2025 draft hand before trade period commenced. With a F4th going back. A significant investment yes. Pretty much the entire draft hand each club gets issued each year depending on its ladder finishing position.

That was the deal, yes?

We are discussing the Barrass trade. Not what other pick swaps the Hawks did in other trades.

Sigh....

Do you have the ability to read?

No.

Does Hawthorn have a hand of draft picks for next year?

Yes.

You can split hairs all day, but your argument remains redundant.

 

[Footy Smarts]

2) Lawson Humphries. How can a kid who came through your academy look like a star at another team a couple of years later? How do you miss this kid when he's right under your nose?*



Given they had Nic Martin as a train on and passed on him too they certainly have form missing stars right under their noses

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Both WCE and the Hawks should be pretty happy with the trade.

Weagles, a team that is starting out their rebuild, get another first and second rounder, and swap a fourth for a third rounder - all for an aging player that; a) wanted to leave for various reasons, and b) would not be around for the next period of success the Weagles achieve. Meaning they have two firsts, seconds and thirds going into next year's draft.

Hawks get a mature, professional, ready-made quality FB - an area that has seemingly been identified as an area of need by the brains trust at the club.

And Barrass himself gets out of a rebuilding club and can hopefully spend his last few years vying for some success.

The obvious questions marks for both teams are:

- did the Hawks overpay for a 29 year old that's never played a full season, who has back issues that will have to be managed for the rest of his life (his own words)?

- did Weagles get enough of a return?

- did trying to demand two firsts, delaying the eventual inevitable deal, cause them to accept a poor trade involving pick #3 after the Hawks made the trade with the Bluuz?

I think those claiming we should have hit the draft again need to realise that over the last three years we have had the equivalent of five first rounders - Ward, Mackenzie, Weddle, Watson, McCabe. I'd say Macdonald (second rounder) has been first round worthy too. Plus additions like Ginnivan and D'Ambrosio, both playing at a first rounder standard.