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Trade week began last week, and like most years, it has run to script.
Day 1- Teams spend all day trying to find which room to be in, and trying to wedge past Neil Balme in the corridor (that delays things a bit).
Day 2-Day 3- On the second or third day, there is a minor player who few have heard of (unless you are a fan of that team) being traded for some other list clogger. It barely rates a mention on trade radio.
Day 4-6- Usually by this time, two things happen. There is a second deal, involving simply a swap of picks (boring). Also, some big name decides, slap bang in the middle of trade period, to walk out on their club. It takes up all the time for the next three days, since no other deals are done.
Then radio people entertain themselves by throwing up silly suggestions like , what if Player X goes to club Y, because they were seen one time within a 150 feet square radius of an opposition football club, which means that they must be joining that team that year. Some guy then calls up on talkback, whose father's friend's sister's boyfriend's dog's trainer's mother's brother's work colleague once had a guy paint his house who knew a player's child's coach's girlfriend's brother's uncle's relative once-removed, who heard that a player was having lunch in the same state as an official from a rival AFL club, so that means that he will be playing for that rival club next year.
Day 9- Final Day- 1pm. One hour before trade closes. 98% of the other trades talked about actually finally get done (about time), and 99% of those are for the same bloody deal they refused a week earlier. Of course Collingwood and Essendon do all their deals then, since they figure out that the scrubber they want to trade who is worth a fifth-round pick, isn't going to net them Pick 1 instead. (BTW, how come Travis Cloke deal STILL isn't done. Collingwood don't want him, so why are they holding out for a top ten pick?).
It is the biggest BS every year. Players a club want to get rid of, suddenly become top ten picks, and the player they really want, is so important to them, they want to snare him for a sixth-round pick and a player they never use.
I would like to see Trade Period reduced to three days. This is just enough time to organise trades, get players on board with it, and do the deal, without all the penis-comparison contests. Let's see how quick deals get done when there is limited time. It will become a case of "take it or leave it". Get something or get nothing. But dragging out deals for days and days, because some clubs act like children, and don't want to give even a little bit, is rubbish, and the AFL need to kick some butt to get clubs to hurry things up.
Also, for once, just once, I would love to see a list manager at one club, say to a list manager of another club, who refuses their deal of a top player for pick 102 in the draft, to say "F...u", overturn a chair, and storm off, never to be seen again. Someone snatching it would be more interesting than most of what happens in trade week.
We know that most players end up at the club of their choice, and most deals get done. So just friggin' hurry up already and do the bloody deal already.
Day 1- Teams spend all day trying to find which room to be in, and trying to wedge past Neil Balme in the corridor (that delays things a bit).
Day 2-Day 3- On the second or third day, there is a minor player who few have heard of (unless you are a fan of that team) being traded for some other list clogger. It barely rates a mention on trade radio.
Day 4-6- Usually by this time, two things happen. There is a second deal, involving simply a swap of picks (boring). Also, some big name decides, slap bang in the middle of trade period, to walk out on their club. It takes up all the time for the next three days, since no other deals are done.
Then radio people entertain themselves by throwing up silly suggestions like , what if Player X goes to club Y, because they were seen one time within a 150 feet square radius of an opposition football club, which means that they must be joining that team that year. Some guy then calls up on talkback, whose father's friend's sister's boyfriend's dog's trainer's mother's brother's work colleague once had a guy paint his house who knew a player's child's coach's girlfriend's brother's uncle's relative once-removed, who heard that a player was having lunch in the same state as an official from a rival AFL club, so that means that he will be playing for that rival club next year.
Day 9- Final Day- 1pm. One hour before trade closes. 98% of the other trades talked about actually finally get done (about time), and 99% of those are for the same bloody deal they refused a week earlier. Of course Collingwood and Essendon do all their deals then, since they figure out that the scrubber they want to trade who is worth a fifth-round pick, isn't going to net them Pick 1 instead. (BTW, how come Travis Cloke deal STILL isn't done. Collingwood don't want him, so why are they holding out for a top ten pick?).
It is the biggest BS every year. Players a club want to get rid of, suddenly become top ten picks, and the player they really want, is so important to them, they want to snare him for a sixth-round pick and a player they never use.
I would like to see Trade Period reduced to three days. This is just enough time to organise trades, get players on board with it, and do the deal, without all the penis-comparison contests. Let's see how quick deals get done when there is limited time. It will become a case of "take it or leave it". Get something or get nothing. But dragging out deals for days and days, because some clubs act like children, and don't want to give even a little bit, is rubbish, and the AFL need to kick some butt to get clubs to hurry things up.
Also, for once, just once, I would love to see a list manager at one club, say to a list manager of another club, who refuses their deal of a top player for pick 102 in the draft, to say "F...u", overturn a chair, and storm off, never to be seen again. Someone snatching it would be more interesting than most of what happens in trade week.
We know that most players end up at the club of their choice, and most deals get done. So just friggin' hurry up already and do the bloody deal already.
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.' They're the type of people that yell 'just bloody kick it!' and then also yell 'oh who's there??' When the long kicks don't go to anyone
