News AFL trade, free agency and draft. "who goes where?" - No freakin' hypotheticals

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No doubt Clarko spoke very well.

One thing kept nagging me was that this piece of the jigsaw wasn't fitting perfectly with with what Graham Wright's was saying.

GW has said how unhappy he was to lose Lewis and would maybe have done things differently if he had his time again.

I have no issue with letting these players go but am miffed and the massive unders we accepted, particularly for Lewis.
I'm yet to see a quote of GW actually saying that, and I've looked. I've seen where people have read between the lines but all I've ever actually hear him say is that he wished the club still had Lewis.

That would be Lewis on a one year deal. With no certainty of further deals or position. So the club let him go when Lewis asked to go.

That's a whole lot different that conceding the Lewis trade was a giant, regretful clusterfark.
 

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I'm yet to see a quote of GW actually saying that, and I've looked. I've seen where people have read between the lines but all I've ever actually hear him say is that he wished the club still had Lewis.
I thought he said "he may have handled it differently" on Nine news tonight, nothing about wanting Lewis to stay. I took that as managing the info/announcement/responses not necessarily his actual trade. Only GW knows what he thinks.
 

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I think we may have stuffed up here

Surely we could have offered to Gold Coast what we swapped pick 10 for?
I think we traded for pick 10 because GC were being very unreasonable in their requests last week so we (wrighty) thought outside the square and as a result did what we had to do too get pick 10 knowing that either GC took pick 10 from us or we would take him in the draft as no other Melbourne club had a pick inside 10 willing to use.
 

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I feel like we should have kept pick 36 in that swap with St Kilda. Either offer GC Pick 10 and 36 or package a player + 36 to get a higher draft pick from another club and offer that to GC with pick 10.
 

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How so? I'm genuinely curious. I don't see how failing to trade benefits either of the clubs or JOM.
It is no longer about what is a fair trade. They know they ain't getting much better than what is now on the table (which is less than what was previously offered). The ego will not allow it and I hope this us the case.

Wrighty can just turnaround and say 'not my fault, I tried' and then if we genuinely are building a war chest, the PSD for a big sum is achievable. The Bombers don't have the cap space.
 

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This has been alluded to for a while but how do we know for sure he won't get taken with one of the 9 picks before us? Feels risky to me...
Get him to put a 1 year deal 1.3 million price on his head and lets see if anyone takes the risk of drafting him, especially when they know he wants to be at Hawthorn and could just walk after 1 year.
 
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