Surely it will be more than 1 or 2
If 13 are up then the number's got to be closer to 4 or 5
The 13 number is a load of garbage. Every single year we'd walk in with 10-20 names on our possible trades list.
At the end of the day they've also got to do a satisfactory deal. We also dont have many, if anyone, that actually wants out at the moment. So all these point to a pretty standard trade period.
The crazy trade out everyone crap going on around this forum wont be going on internally. The list managers at the club are not as crazy, and not as willing to see us plummet down the ladder in a rebuild.
People ultimately go into trade period like it seems you will, expecting record trading numbers, and then after nothing happens and the usual 1-2 moves are made then they all complain.
Let's be realistic, we're putting a lot of names out there to see what we could get for them, but we aren't just going to throw them away. We've got great depth at the moment and we're not going to trade out ready to go players for picks 50+, it would make zero sense and it would be bad list management.
We'll try and trade into the 2nd round, and even the first with Hammer, and if teams dont come to the party I'm sure we will hold our nerve and keep the players. That's why IMO, I expect O'Shea to go, and then likely 1 more trade is done to free cap space or get another 2nd round pick, and then if someone offers something really good for 1 more of our players we may get another deal done. Otherwise for me it's likely to be a 1-2 trade out period.