Trades that hurt your club

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On Sunday night, Fox footy are screening a special called 'Richmond - The Lost Years', which starts off with the disastrous trade of three players (Brian Roberts, Graham Teasdale and Francis Jackson) and $40,000 cash for South Melbourne Defender John Pitura, which sowed the seeds for 30 years in the footy wilderness

Has your club had any similar trades which have significantly hurt your club? For Adelaide, the 1998 post season trade of Tony Modra to Fremantle was very sad.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...ent-tigers-broke/story-e6frf3e3-1226686182797
 

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Not a trade so much but letting Greg Williams go to Sydney wasn't very clever by Geelong in the 80's. Just because he asked for a bit more money. If they had of paid him the $40,000 he wanted he'd have stayed at the Cats and could have possibly turned some of those premiership losses into wins.

Trading Mumford has bitten us a bit as since Ottens retired we haven't really had a match winning ruckman. We just didn't have room in our cap to offer him a contract like Sydney did so we had to let him go. They gave Blake a contract that year too and that left only a small amount of money for Mumford. At the time I think they felt they had to repay Blake for the service he had put in as Ottens no 2, and carrying the ruck all those games Ottens was injured.

The interchange sub rule eventually led to the extinction of ruckmen like Blake, and Geelong got caught out having put their eggs in that basket. Mumford would have slotted in nicely as our no 1 ruckman after Ottens retired. But it was never to be and now we still struggle with that position.
 

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On Sunday night, Fox footy are screening a special called 'Richmond - The Lost Years', which starts off with the disastrous trade of three players (Brian Roberts, Graham Teasdale and Francis Jackson) and $40,000 cash for South Melbourne Defender John Pitura, which sowed the seeds for 30 years in the footy wilderness
Sorry but our mislead determination to "Get back" at Collingwood for "poaching" Raines and Cloke from 1983 onwards led to us going broke and the reason why we have been in the wilderness for the past 30yrs.
 

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We have let a few good players go (Josh Kennedy anyone)

But can't think of anyway we brought in that hasn't at least played a role needed for the club. At least over the last 20 years.
 

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Our screw up list is too long and is a heavily depressing subject and don't wish to be depressed on a Friday afternoon. :(
 

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The 2001 and 2002 trade periods were disastrous for Essendon.

Traded away players like Blumfield, Heffernan, Caracella and Hardwick and, really, didn't receive anyone of commensurate quality from the trades.
 

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Nothing matches the Stephen O'Reilly trade.

From an old BF post.

Weaver said:
Worst trade ever?

That's easy. Pick 16 and 46 for Stephen O'Reilly who played 12 games for you. AND you had to pay him illegally outside the cap. AND he blew the whistle on you. AND you had to pay a fine. AND you got kicked out of the draft and had to recruit hacks. AND it meant that your mulit-million investment in Denis Pagan was a waste because he had no players.

Stephen O'Reilly for - Pick 16, pick 46, $1m fine, pick 1, 2, 17 and 33 in the 2003 draft, pick 1 in the 2003 PSD, 1st and 2nd round picks in the 2004 draft.

I reckon that would have the McMahon trade covered by a couple of laps of Flemington, then a trip down the highway for a run round Caulfield, before a backtrack to run the length of the Moone Valley straight.
 

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The nothing we gave St Kilda in exchange for Luke Ball could have been used on nothing rather than a player that would prove crucial to winning the very next premiership.

If it weren't for that premiership, the boys wouldn't be so content with themselves right now. Any MM coached side is going to lack the discipline to set up a dynasty after its first taste of success. As a result, the Buckley dynasty has been pushed back a couple of seasons.
 

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Traded Tom Harley to Geelong ._.
We had Mead and Paxman holding down the key positions, followed by Darryl Wakelin and Chad Cornes, who ultimately stood up and took us to a premiership 6 years later. It certainly helped Geelong but I wouldn't say it hurt us.

The trade which hurt Port Adelaide most didn't even involve us. It was at the end of 2005, when an ex-Port Adelaide maggie was struggling in Melbourne and screaming to come home to Port- his name was Scott Thompson. We ignored him and he turned into a star of the comp at Adelaide, while we continued to pick up recycled spuds like Aaron Shattock and Peter Walsh.
 

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Trading Josh Kennedy is the biggest trading blunder but we did end up with Ben Stratton from the trade so it wasn't the most awful thing.
Swings and roundabouts I guess. Kennedy is a distant memory anyway, I can barely remember him playing for us.

I'd say Hawthorn have done very well from the trade period over the past 10 years so this thread probably doesn't apply to us.

From other clubs, Fev to Brisbane stands out as the big one. Terrible decision overall.
 

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We had Mead and Paxman holding down the key positions, followed by Darryl Wakelin and Chad Cornes, who ultimately stood up and took us to a premiership 6 years later. It certainly helped Geelong but I wouldn't say it hurt us.

The trade which hurt Port Adelaide most didn't even involve us. It was at the end of 2005, when an ex-Port Adelaide maggie was struggling in Melbourne and screaming to come home to Port- his name was Scott Thompson. We ignored him and he turned into a star of the comp at Adelaide, while we continued to pick up recycled spuds like Aaron Shattock and Peter Walsh.
I thought Peter Walsh was quite handy for Port? Could just be my hazy memory, no superstar but solid player nonetheless.
 
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