Opinion Traded Players You Missed Most

[YelloMit]

As the title says, name former Fremantle players who got traded to another club that you really missed when they left and/or wished they never got traded. They don't have to be the best players ever, they can be personal favourites of yours. They can also be players who became free agents who decided to not come back to Freo.

For me personally, I hated it when Daniel Bandy went to the Bulldogs. He was one of my favourite players and I felt like he was starting to really show his best. He was roughly 27 when he was traded, which is prime for a ruck/KPP.

 

[Kram]

James Clement.

 

[Purple Maverick]

Winston

 

[The Anchorite]

Medhurst.

 

[Danny Cullen]

Jess Sinclair.

 

[electricfeel]

My favourite player as a youngun was Paul Medhurst so I was devastated when he left. In recent times Rhys Palmer was also my favourite so I was pretty sad to see him go to. I briefly follow GWS just to watch him and am glad he's doing well.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Instead of a player, can I say a draft pick? If so then pick 1 of 2001.

 

[poshman]

Instead of a player, can I say a draft pick? If so then pick 1 of 2001.

This! Very much this.

And clement.

After that I mostly miss that we didn't see clem grow and enjoy Longmuir for longer. Add more to that list. Those hurt as much or more.

 

[Tonga Bob]

This! Very much this.

And clement.

After that I mostly miss that we didn't see clem grow and enjoy Longmuir for longer. Add more to that list. Those hurt as much or more.

Oh Clem... [INSERT SAD FACE EMOJI]

 

[Eski3]

Not necessarily traded, but I get a sense of unease and rage when I see Justin Longmuir wearing an Eagles shirt or Luke Webster at Carlton

 

[Agenfrida]

Disagree we got mcpharlin and he was well worth the #1 pick.

 

[theGav56]

Disagree we got mcpharlin and he was well worth the #1 pick.

He was indeed, but he was also available for us for nothing via PSD so Hawthorn were always going to make a favourable trade for the injury plagued, untested MacPharlin.

Our trading in those days was "enthusiastic" when it should have been "ruthless".

I could not believe Clement was under-utilised, then traded for next to nix.

 

[Scham]

I could not believe Clement was under-utilised, then traded for next to nix.

Yep absolutely and McPhee fell into the same boat.

Bell was under-utilised and then delisted. Even worse. His 2 games for us had class written all over them, so to see him delisted and then star at the Kangas hurt.

 

[PurpleWizard]

Dylan Roberton

I'm not sure if he'd be a getting a game for us. He would be fighting with Sheridan for that attacking half back spot if he was. But I enjoy watching him do well at the Saints. He's had a great year.

 

[Purpletown]

James Clement... should have held onto him and got rid of Damien Dumb. That would have been a no cost win/win situation for Freo.

 

[TheInjuryFactory]

Tarrant.

Not a personal favourite necessarily but came pretty damn good for us as a key back. Turned his career around only for him to head back to "Collingworth" at first chance. Nearly got himself a flag in the end so can hardly begrudge the guy but he would have been good to hold on to, particularly in 2012.

Just double checked the deal, yep we got absolutely robbed too.

On 11 October 2010, the final day of the trade period, Tarrant returned to Collingwood in a trade that saw him and pick 44 traded to Collingwood for picks 43 and 55.

EDIT: *Nearly
Wrongly attributed him a flag.

 

[FFC4ME]

James Clement was certainly one of the first, for me - a fantastic player (remember that epic rundown of a Geelong player on the wing at Subi?) who was unfairly treated.

The decisions to let Heath Black go in 2001, and then axe Leigh Brown and Adam McPhee at the end of 2002, were also boneheaded. Instead of a whole coterie of Hasleby, Pavlich, Brown, McPhee, Longmuir and Sandilands coming through together, Schwab and Connolly then found themselves having to desperately import players to fill out the list and basically start all over again with the likes of Mundy, Crowley, Johnson, Dodd, Duffield and Ibbotson.

Medhurst was not the same player in 2006 as he was for his first four seasons, so I had little angst at seeing the Michelin Man version of him playing at Collingwood. Ditto Rhys Palmer, who has never looked like the player of 2008 since he did his knee in 2009...and Greg Broughton, who you would never pick these days as being AA quality, which he was under Harvey.

Roberton is probably the best latter day player who I miss, given his success at establishing himself at St Kilda - but it is a tribute to how good we have become at player retention that there have been no obvious howlers for almost a decade now...

 

[TheMcManusNose]

For right now it would be Roberton. Would be the closest thing we have to a Johnno replacement.

Overall probably the first McPhee trade. He was one of the bright spots in 2001 for me personally.

 

[Freoforever86]

Palmer.

Jokes..

 

[schnoods]

Jeff white.

 

[Scatter]

Tarrant.

Not a personal favourite necessarily but came pretty damn good for us as a key back. Turned his career around only for him to head back to "Collingworth" at first chance. Got himself a flag in the end so can hardly begrudge the guy but he would have been good to hold on to, particularly in 2012.

Just double checked the deal, yep we got absolutely robbed too.

Didn't he get there a year late and miss out on a flag?

 

[Nothing]

Didn't he get there a year late and miss out on a flag?

Yep. Tarrant missing the flag was one of life's great * yous.

 

[Wizard]

Palmer.

Jokes..

I Miss him, he was my favourite player at the time.

Wouldn't mind him in DeBoer or Subans spot at the moment.

 

[TheInjuryFactory]

Didn't he get there a year late and miss out on a flag?

Yep true. For some reason always had it in my mind that he got one. Whoops

 

[Lach72]

I Miss him, he was my favourite player at the time.

Wouldn't mind him in DeBoer or Subans spot at the moment.

Yeah...lazy 5 on the weekend was it?