Opinion 2019 Trade Period - Pass or Fail

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Was this the start of a rebuild at the time?

It seems like a few thought so, when some wanted us to have done even more.

Maybe we were conservative, but going from 3rd oldest to 3rd youngest was a big action.

Maybe we were trying to not completely gut things, and maybe the total collapse the next year was a genuine shock.

Bingo. I do reckon we were retooling here and trying to find a way to get us back to a contender within a year or two.

Allowing Crouch to walk as an FA because we thought he would bring in a first round pick is the likely point we genuinely accepted this was going to be a long rebuild.