Oh wow, blow my mind. Some first-year arts students just called. They want their talking points back.
A better result, in my view, would have been adding to the list with a player or two who's ready to go.
Is it a choice between getting one of those guys and getting no one?
Are you saying there's no middle ground?
We all would have liked to have had a quality player brought in during the trade period at a low cost like we did Yeo with Yeo last year or the elite mid we are crying out for.
From the sound of it we made reasonable offers to Malceski and Varcoe. There was talk around Conca and Christensen but nothing substantial. Its entirely plausible that after those names there wasn't much on offer or that the asking price was too high.
Malceski took a $1.5m deal over three years
Varcoe would have cost our 2nd round draft pick or someone like Schofield. We reportedly offered him $1.2m over 3 years
Conca would have likely required our 1st round pick
Christensen had eyes only on Queensland for whatever reason.
Any of those we should have gone harder for?
Beams, Boyd and Griffen we didn't have the trade currency for not withstanding they had chosen their destinations. Ryder didn't fill a need.
The quality WA mids elsewhere are still under contract and there is no way of us knowing whether we are in those guys (or their managers) ears already which may very well be the case
But just because nothing transpired it means the club sat around on their hands for 2 weeks and did nothing