People seem to forget that although we didn't get what we thought we deserved In the straight out trade for gunston, the total sum of trading last year was very beneficial to the crows. I believe this is what will happen this year too. Patience is what is required.
Exactly right. We managed to net Jenkins and Lynch I think with two of the picks from the Gunston trade, which is how the club reasoned why we wanted the Gunston deal done so quick. If there was 3 weeks last year, I have no doubt the club would have pressed for me, but obviously they wanted to get other trades done.
We traded Gunston and pick 74 for picks 24, 46 and 64. Pick 24 was then traded to GC for picks 27, 31 and 68. Pick 31 is then used to trade for Jenkins and pick 41. Pick 68 is then used along with our own pick 35, along with Armstrong, to get a contracted LJ back to Adelaide. Also gained Lynch, Brown and Crouch in other deals. I thought this was covered last year though when everyone finally got a grip over the Gunston trade and realised why the club acted so swiftly, but obviously not...
It also shows how far pick 22 is off the mark when we managed to get pick 24 in the Gunston trade. Gunston is a far inferior player to Tippett at this stage of their careers, and I believe we did extremely well that trade period.
Weren't we regarded as one of the better teams over the trade period last year, when people realised the net return from the players that were lost?
But hey, enjoy rants over media speculation about hypothetical trades because you want a decision right now, you'll just look extremely childish when this is all over.