I don't see how we did anything wrong and given the circumstances
I'm not even sure we underpaid.
If reports are true, we may have been told he could leave the Crows for a 2nd round pick. Not our fault if that's not true. We also apparently started discussing him before we won the flag - whilst I'm sure we were confident I'm not sure if we knew our first round pick would be that low. Changes the status of players who may have been tradable before after you win a flag also. So we offered what we could and tried to improve it.
In terms of value, the Crows and their supporters have been on a mission to devalue him. Quite simply bizarre that they would do that before a trade. That then seemed to create bad blood with Kurt which meant there was no way he would do them any favours.
Saying they were ahead just by getting rid of him and that they wouldn't have him back were laughably bad decisions prior to a trade. Threatening to send him to the PSD. Seriously? Saying they would take nothing for a player who could quite easily say he will only play for us and nominate a salary which meant we were a greater than 50% chance of getting him in the draft? Quite frankly, I can't believe our luck.
This may sound patronising but this will help the Crows. I hope they review what happened here and make sure they don't do this again. If we had lost Richards, Johnson, Reid and someone else that I can't think of a comparison for, in the space of a few years we would be going nuts at our club and finally that seems to be happening with Crows supporters. How would the Crows go next year with Bock, Davis, Gunston & Tippett? Add the first three into a team that missed a GF by a goal and how would they have gone this year?
From Crows fans I have read that he is disruptive, inconsistent, over-rated, one concussion off retirement, a bad kick, and suffers from depression! Officials from the Crows said they are happy to be rid of him, they are already ahead by him being gone, they are prepared to take nothing for him and he is not welcome back! It's not us that turned a player worth 1 top 10 + 1 top 20 pick into a player worth 23+White