As someone else above said there's no way Gunston is being traded, to valuable with being able to play forward, back and wing (to an extent).
Bruest is on long term contract so unless he wanted to leave, don't see this happening.
Smith won't be traded as we need run, apart from him we have noone decent on on the wings, unless you consider Hartung and Henderson at his level.
Only players the club would trade would be Poppy, Birchall, Frawley and Stratts (currency + age)
I would prefer to trade out poppy and one of the 3 mentioned above to either get a young promising player or to upgrade our existing draft picks or for next years picks. Other than that doubt anything else will happen, as we already shown we have enough youngsters to re-start our rebuild and push for silverware.
Maybe a FA next year will help with that, so there might be someone we are targeting there- if this is the case it means we won't need to waste any picks on this player.
Doubt we will be super aggressive this year as next year might be a year to consolidate our game plan, putting more games into the younger players and generally allowing and promoting natural growth in our list.
If we were going to be aggressive i see it being during the 2018 trade period, as we will be looking to push for top 8/4 in 2019.
Just my 2 cents.
Like I said guys, I wrote it in here because of the circumstances. I NEVER said it's 100% true, I'm new to the site, I used to use it under a different name, but I want to be known as a credible source. That's why I put the conversation I'm Hypotheticals! I realise most of the players I listed are contracted and a trade needs there consent. I also known Clarkson can be ruthless at times. When I mentioned KEY FORWARD that's what I meant. Is Gunna a key forward at 87kg? The Key forwards these days are close to 200cm. I put Roughead and Frawley in the KPP are because of there strength and weight. Just because they're 193 cm doesn't make them a key position player, is Birchall one?
To get high picks you need to give up talent and the talk I heard was getting into the first round this year and getting future picks for next years draft. If I can confirm it I will. But this page is about hypotheticals yes? I don't know if my contacts were informed of these names or they're were throwing them around. Personally I think Brisbane was mentioned because they want this year and next years 1st rounders from them and players over 26-27 make sense. Also Fagan knows our players better than anyone.
Personally if we could trade to get Rayner or maybe a Dow this year and go into next with the lions 1st and the Hawks 1st which would've lost some high end players, I'd imagine we could target a rankine and a King twin. The more I think about what I heard the more I can deal with losing a Gunston, Breust , smith players with currency. That's how we will get our next lot of superstars through the door. So don't have a go at me for writing a hyperthetical that actually has some substance apart from alcohol behind it.
I thought sharing on this page is what was wanted. Am I wrong, because I can piss off quite easily! Also just because I might see the benefit of it and favourite players have been mentioned. It does remind me of the croad and McPharlin trade and we know how we came out of that!
Also not directed at you snoref, was just a notification that came up first Go Hawks