Its very hard to piece together the sequence of events. I do however believe that if we were all honest and analysing what we do know objectively, then no one comes out of this smelling of roses. As I have posted here before, what upsets me the most is the treatment of the players, of which we were culpable in getting Jesse over to Adelaide and possibly leading him to believe he would join our club. The media and social media frenzy which followed, all directed at an innocent player was nothing short of disgraceful.
Sorry Peter, you make some good points but after all that has happened it's very frustrating that Crows fans are still running around trying to make everyone else look bad.
We tried to trade for a player. That is all we did. Didn't offer enough? Who gives a toss. That happens multiple times every draft period. If a club doesn't offer enough the other club rejects it - and their fans don't whine about it for a month. Oh, but your club couldn't reject it? That is their doing, not ours. We come out of it smelling the same way we did when we went in.
Now you are hanging your hat on us forcing you to take White. WTF? Is that the same as Crows fans saying they were forced to accept a dodgy deal by Kurt's dad? If it's true, then the deal was 23 + White. Take it or leave it. Just don't whine about it afterwords as though we did something wrong. Again, you got screwed due to your own clubs mismanagement - nothing to do with us.
We don't have to offer what you guys think is "fair". Who cares if he is valued at 2 low first round picks? Given that valuation and the fact that you guys completely messed this trade up, we think what we offered was more than fair. If you don't, fine, reject the offer. Oh wait ...
In regards to the deal not being accepted by the AFL, from what I have read it seems like they would look into pretty much anything because it was obvious your club had done something wrong. Didn't they investigate a year ago and said there was no "agreement"? So that means that everyone involved in this lied to them. Then, it is reported at the start of this period that either your CEO or Chairman said that he had instructed your guys to ignore any agreement because Kurt wasn't going home. So, would the AFL have rejected the deal because it was unders or because it was obvious you had done something dodgy and they wanted to look into it?
If it comes out that we did something wrong then we'll accept it but the accusations being levelled at us by Crows fans show no wrongdoing whatsoever.