Mostly right the 5th time 5 minutes before it's about to drop after they have predicted it wrongly 4 times. Look at how many journos have had Deledio to do Geelong for months. Most of their speculation is wrong. Even Mark Stevens admitted (unwittingly) in his own tweet today that he is just guessing. You guys shouldnt buy it.
Nope. And the Deledio to Geelong speculation wasn't baseless at all. The clubs had discussions. So, once again, the journalists were correct. But let's go through the 2016 trade period, shall we?
Brad Hill to Freo: trade possibility first reported on months ago.
Jack Steele to St Kilda: trade possibility first reported on weeks ago.
Sam Mitchell to West Coast: story broken days before trade went through.
Tom Mitchell to Hawthorn: trade possibility first reported on months ago.
Jordan Lewis to Melbourne: story broken days before trade went through.
Pearce Hanley to Gold Coast: story broken last week.
Dion Prestia to Richmond: story broken months ago.
Toby Nankevis to Richmond: story broken this week.
Joel Hamling to Fremantle: story broken not long after Grand Final.
Cameron McCarthy to Fremantle: story broken literally over a year ago.
None of these stories dropped 5 minutes before the trade went through. Yes, it's true that some of them the media found out only through "formal" channels when the player's trade request was released to the club website, but still, nearly all of these links were being reported on by journalists well before the trades went through and most of them were reported before trade requests were lodged or the relevant player agents had spoken publicly about the possibility of any move occurring.